Thursday, July 5, 2012

Nom Nom Nom...

Dinner tonight... Homemade empanadas and red pepper mango slaw!! Info to follow
If you haven't heard of the blog Skinny
Taste, hop on over there right away, it's okay, I'll wait. 
Great sight huh..So I made the empandas off of that site KINDA. 

Dough
Recipe.
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg yolk (save the white)
3/4 cup warm milk

Mix flour and salt in food processor,
Add yolk and milk and pulse.
Once a ball forms, roll out on a lightly floured surface. 
Make disks with a bowl. 
Fill with meat mixture
Fold edges over and brush with egg white
Cook for 10-15 mins at 400 degrees

Meat Mixture
1 pound beef
3/4 can tomato sauce
salt and pepper to taste
Tastefully Simple Garlic Garlic and Onion Onion to taste
Paprika to taste

Salt and pepper raw meat
brown meat
drain meat
add onion onion, garlic garlic and paprika and tomato sauce
cook for 10 mins on low.


Red Pepper, Mango Slaw

Half a bag of cole slaw
Quarter of bag match sticks carrots
1 mango chopped
1 red pepper in cut into match sticks.
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons honey
splash oil
1/2 lime juice
Mix all together Enjoy

VERDICT: Hubby and kids loved the empanadas!!  I have made them before and it was a fav then as well.  The slaw...didn't go over so well.  I was the only one who like it.

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