Post-Thanksgiving Empanadas

Post-Thanksgiving Empanadas are a great way to use up some of those holiday leftovers in a new and fun way.

Post-Thanksgiving Empanadas

Leisa Sutton

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Ingredients

  

Empanada Dough

• 6 cups Flour
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1/2 cup Milk
• 3 sticks Unsalted Butter
• 2 large Eggs

Empanada Filling

• 1.5 lbs Ground Turkey Cooked
• 1 Boxed stuffing mix
• 1 can Cranberry sauce

Cranberry Dipping Sauce

• Cranberry Sauce
• 3 tbsp Orange Juice

Instructions

 

Empanada Dough

• Mix the flour and salt in a mixing bowl
• Add room temperature butter and mix
• Mix eggs into milk and pour slowly into mixing bowl, continuing to mix until dough is clumpy

Empanada Filling

• Cook ground turkey
• In a seperate bowl, add cooked turkey, 1/2 cup of water or broth, 3 Tbsp of cranberry sauce and boxed stuffing mix

Dipping Sauce

• Mix remaining cranberry sauce and 3 tbsp of orange juice. Mix to the desired consistency.

Stuffing Empanadas

• Split the dough into two large balls. Set one aside
• Take one ball and roll out the dough into a thin sheet. I do this one small section at a time constructing individual empanadas as I work.
• Take some of the filling, place it into the dough, fold in half and seal edges by pinching and folding around the entire empanada.
• Once empanada's are stuffed, preheat oven to 400 degrees F

  Beat one egg and brush it over the top of each empanada.
• Bake for 15 minutes
• Serve warm with dipping sauce.

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