Empanadas (Meat Pie)
Grrrrrgh!
Course : Appetizers
From: HungryMonster.com
Serves: 5
 

Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
                        ***FILLING***
   1      pound         ground beef
   2                    garlic cloves -- minced
   2                    hard boiled eggs -- cold, chopped
     1/4  cup           milk
                        salt & black pepper
                        raisins -- to taste
                        green olives -- chopped
   1      pinch         red pepper -- crushed
                        cooking oil
   1      large         onion -- chopped
                        pastry dough or -- Grand's biscuits for
                         -- dough
 

Preparation:

Fry onions in cooking oil until soft. Add minced garlic and brown lightly. Drain oil. Add ground beef to onions and sauté until meat turns a light brown. Add chopped olives, eggs, salt and black pepper, raisins, pinch of red pepper and milk. Allow to simmer (uncovered) over low heat for 5 mins. PASTRY DOUGH: Any good grade of commercial pie crust mix will give satisfactory results -or- use your own favorite recipe .... Roll out dough 1/8" thickness and cut with a 5" cutter. Place meat filling on one side of the dough. Fold the other side over the filling and pinch the edges. Deep fry in hot cooking oil until crisp and brown .. or .. bake in a 400F oven until the crust is a golden brown