Grandma's Empanadas

My Grandpa was stationed in Panama while he was in the military. Here is one of the recipes that came from the time that they lived in Panama. When I ran out of meat filling I took some quinoa I had in the fridge and mixed in some salsa and used it to fill the rest of the pastry I had left. It made a tasty vegetarian filling. 

Ingredients:

Pastry:

4 sticks of butter

2 (8oz) cream cheese

4 cups of flour

1 tsp salt

Filling:

1 lb of hamburger

1 Tbsp flour

1/8 cup water

1/2 package chili or taco seasoning

salt and pepper to taste

Brown meat

Add in the rest of filling ingredients cook and cook a few minutes more

let cool

Mix butter and cream cheese together. Slowly add in flour

Roll out dough and cut out circles (I used a little bowl)

fill with meat, because of the size of my dough circles I used a tsp of meat

fold over dough

seal with a fork

brush empanadas with egg white

 Bake at 400 for 10 minutes or until golden brown

 Enjoy!