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Chicken and chorizo empanadas
Photo: Lily Banse

Chicken and chorizo empanadas

13 ingredients 30 min + 2 hr Makes 10 openrecipes
Chicken and chorizo empanadas

Traditional in Spain and Portugal, empanadas are little pastry pockets with an intensely flavoured savoury filling. They are great eaten any time but make a particularly good tapas-style snack with a cold beer.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1037
Calories
53g
Protein
36g
Fat
124g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Grape 1/2 cup (76g) 62
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Cumin 1 tsp ground (2.1g) 8
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 4 chicken thighs
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion
  • 1 garlic
  • 100g/3½oz British-style chorizo
  • ½ tsp cumin
  • 50g/1¾oz raisins
  • and saltpepper
  • 150g/5½oz unsalted butter
  • 300g/10½oz plain flour
  • large pinch salt
  • 1 free-range egg
  • beaten egg

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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