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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Mexican >> Mexican

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. | 2. In mixing bowl, combine both packages of cream cheese, butter and flour; beat until soft dough forms. Wrap in wax paper and chill 1 hour. | 3. In a large skillet, brown ground meats, then drain. Return meat to skillet and add onion and saute. Add garlic, cumin, seasoned salt and jalapeno. Stir in tomato puree, pine nuts and raisins. Simmer about 10 minutes. | 4. When dough chills, roll out 1/4 inch thickness and cut with a large biscuit cutter. Place a spoonful of the meat mixture on each dough round. | 5. With finger dipped in beaten egg, spread egg around edges of dough, fold over and press edges with a fork. Place empanadas on a greased baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
cream cheese	1	package	softened	-	-	-	-
cream cheese	1	package	softened	-	-	-	-
butter	1/2	cup	softened	684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
purpose flour	1 2/3	2/3		-	-	-	-
beef	1/2	lb	ground	449.05699999999996	0.0	44.0439	28.8712
pork	3/4		ground	1279.152	0.0	47.3218	119.3081
onion	1		chopped	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
garlic	1	teaspoon	minced	4.172	0.9257	0.1781	0.013999999999999999
cumin	1	teaspoon	ground	7.875	0.929	0.374	0.4677
seasoning salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
jalapeno	1		chopped seeded	1.6312	0.3656	0.0512	0.0208
tomato puree	1	can		312.36	73.8156	13.562999999999999	1.7262
pine nut	1/4	cup		227.1375	4.4145	4.6204	23.0749
raisin	1/3	cup		166.1	43.736000000000004	1.8645	0.253
egg	1		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.