Best New Mexico Empanadas Recipes

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Provided by Food Network

Categories dessert

Time 35m

Yield 6 to 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 11

2 cups unbleached flour
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon cooking oil
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon sugar
2 cups fresh or canned fruit
1/2 cup brown sugar or fructose
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Cinnamon sugar, for sprinkling

Steps:

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
For the dough: Mix the flour oil, baking powder, cinnamon, sugar. Add just enough water to make the dough silky. Roll the dough out 1/8-inch thick and cut with a 4-inch cookie cutter.
For the fruit: Mash the fruit with the sugar, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Spoon 2 tablespoons of fruit on one half of a circle of dough, then fold it over to look like a half-moon. Pinch the edges with a fork to seal.
Bake until brown, about 15 minutes, then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

New Mexico Empanadas image

Provided by Teresa Morgan

Categories Pork

Number Of Ingredients 19

pastry ingredients
1 stick butter
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon cider vinegar
2 tablespoons very cold water or milk
1 tablespoon oil
1 egg, beaten with 2 tbs. water
4-oz. cream cheese at room temperature
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
FILLING INGREDIENTS:
2-lb pork
1/2 teaspoon allspice
2 cups chopped raisins
1 teaspoon nutmeg
2 cups applesauce
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups sugar
1 cup pinon nuts or other nuts

Steps:

1. Pastry Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Using a fork, combine the butter and cream cheese. Sift flour over this mixture. Add baking powder, vinegar and water or milk and combine with fork. With generously floured hands, work the dough until you have a smooth resilient ball. 3 to 4 minutes, but keep working the flour into the other ingredients until the dough suddenly holds together. Flour both the table and your rolling pin. Roll out dough and cut out circles. Oil cookie sheets and place circles or sheets, add 1 heaping teaspoon of filling and carefully fold over and crimp with fork and moistening the edge with egg glaze. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Filling Directions: Boil pork. When thoroughly cooked, put in food processor until meat is shredded. Add Raisins, applesauce, sugar, nuts and spices. Mix well and proceed with direction in Empanada Pastry recipe.