Ground beef empanadas
Empanadas are eaten everywhere, each country has their own way of making them, with different and delicious fillings. Making keto empanadas is not that hard, the most simple way is using fat head dough!.
This week in Chile, we are celebrating the Independence Day, we mostly eat barbecue meat but we also eat empanadas. These empanadas are filled with pino (a stir fry of ground beef, onion, and a few spices), hard-boiled egg pieces, raisins and olives, absolutely delicious. So since I'm gluten intolerant and I don't love to eat carbs I tried to make keto empanadas, I tried a few recipes but I didn't like them, so I finally went for a fat heat dough, but while I was making them I changed the recipe just a bit. I added an extra tbsp of cream cheese and a few tsp of coconut flour. The result was delicious, with a light cheese flavor and a crunchy texture on the edges of the empanadas.
You can use this dough to make any kind of empanadas, maybe not galician empanadas because that dough is softer and chewier, but other empanadas are perfect with this dough, I hope you like it!
: 10 min.
: 8 h.
8 empanadas
- 1 1/2 cup grated gouda or mozzarella cheese
- 3/4 cup almond flour
- 3 tbsp cream cheese
- 1 egg
- 2-3 tsp coconut flour
- Put the gouda or mozzarella in a bowl together with the cream cheese. Microwave them for 90 seconds or until completely melted.
- Once melted, mix them together very well.
- Add the almond flour and the egg and mix very well until you get an homogeneous dough.
- Place the dough in a flat a clean surface and add coconut flour until the dough no longer sticks to your hands, for me it was about 3 tsp of coconut flour.
- At this point you should preheat your oven at 190 °C or 380 °F
- Divide the dough into eight pieces and roll them out to get a round shape. Fill the dough, and then seal them on the edges. You can decorate the edges by folding the dough in different shapes.
- Beat a yolk and paint the empanadas with a brush.
- Place the empanadas in the oven and cook for 15 to 20 minutes.
