Empanadas

(from msmar’s recipe box)

Substitute beef with chicken or turkey.

Categories: Cuban, Ground Beef

Ingredients

  • 8 large biscuits (large refrigerated ones are good)
  • 1/2 lb ground meat (can use beef, chicken or turkey)
  • 1/2 cup tomato sauce
  • 1/2 cup whole kernel corn
  • 1 cup cheddar cheese, grated
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten

Directions

  1. Brown ground meat. Drain off any fat.

  2. Add next four ingredients to meat.

  3. Pat out biscuits 1/2" thick and put a large spoonful of meat mixture on each biscuit. Brush biscuit edges with egg, fold biscuit in half like you would a turnover, and crimp the edges sealed with a fork.

  4. Bake at 375 degrees f for 15 minutes on cookie sheet.

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