Posted: 2014-03-12 | @lm!ng
Espanada is a stuffed pastry filled with chicken, pork or beef meat and veggies. This is usually prepared during fiestas and during family out of town activities.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients: flour, sugar and baking powder. Blend well
- Add the butter, evaporated milk, eggs and water. Mix the ingredients thoroughly
- Pour the mixture on invidual molds
- Put a small portion of the melted chocolate on top of the batter.
- Stir the batter for 3 rounds using toothpick or barbeque stick
- If cheddar cheese, put on top of the batter. For quick melt cheese put it later after steaming
Cooking The Filling
- Pour the cooking oil in a pan
- Once it's hot, saute the garlic and onions
- Put the chicken and pork meat then cook until it turns brown
- Add the chicken broth and simmer for 10 minutes
- Put in the carrots, potatos and choyote and simmer for another 5 minutes
- Add the green peas, rasins and sugar and let is simmer for 5 minutes
- Sprinkle the salt and pepper
- Put of the heat, and drain the excess liquid
Making The Dough
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- Mix it well using a wire whisk
- Cut the butter into small thin pieces and place in the mixing bowl with the dry ingredients. Make sure the butter is sold and cold before doing this
- Add water gradually and mix all the ingredients thoroughly until the dough is formed. If you don't want to mix it manually, you may use a pastry blender to ease the process
- Divide the dough into small pieces by getting a piece from the whole mixture
- Roll it in your hand until a spherical shape is formed. Make the rest of these from the remaining mixture
- Set aside in a cool place for at least 20 minutes.
- Flatten the spherical dough by pressing it with palm againsts a flat surface
- Use a rolling pin to flatten it fully while creating a round shape
- Put a portion of the filling in the middle of the flattened dough
- Fold the dough until the opposite ends meet like a half moon
- Press the edges to seal
- After all the fillings are consumed, crack the eggs and separate the white from yolk
- Mix the egg white lightly and mix a little water. Glaze the crust by brushing the egg wash
- Put a wax paper on the baking tray or grease the baking tray
- Arrange the sealed doughs
Baking
- Pre-heat oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes
- Bake the sealed doughs for 20 minutes at the same temperature
- Remove from the oven
- Serve hot.
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