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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> South American >> Argentine

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Sift flour into a mound on a clean working surface. | 2. Shape flour into a large ring, forming a high wall. | 3. Place butter, vegetable shortening, cheese, salt and pepper in center of ring. | 4. Add half of the water and work into the central mixture with two table knives using cutting motions. | 5. Work the flour in carefully from the center of the ring, adding more water as needed. | 6. Mix until all the flour is added and the dough holds together. | 7. Gather dough into a ball and place in large plastic baggie, or place in bowl and cover with a towel. | 8. Refrigerate dough for at least one hour before using. | 9. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness. | 10. Cut six, 6-inch circles from the pastry, marking the center of each lightly. | 11. Cook potatoes in boiling, salted water until crisp-tender, then drain. | 12. Spread 1/6 of potatoes over half of each pastry circle, leaving 1/2 inch at the edge to seal. | 13. Combine meat, onion, salt and pepper. | 14. Mix well. | 15. Spread 1/6 of meat mixture evenly over potatoes. | 16. Moisten the edge of each pastry circle with cold water. | 17. Bring unfilled pastry half over the filled side and pinch edges together firmly to seal. | 18. Place on greased baking sheet, sealed side up. | 19. Brush top of pasties with the egg. | 20. Bake in preheated 400 degree oven for 10 minutes. | 21. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake about 25 minutes longer, or until well browned. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
self rising flour	4	cups		-	-	-	-
butter	1/2	cup	softened	684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
vegetable shortening	1/2	cup		922.5	0.0	0.0	102.5
parmesan cheese	1	cup	grated	296.0	32.0	32.0	4.0
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
pepper	1/4	teaspoon		1.4432	0.3677	0.0597	0.0187
water	1	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
potato	1	cup	diced	115.5	26.235	3.075	0.135
beef	1/2	lb	ground	449.05699999999996	0.0	44.0439	28.8712
onion	1/4	cup	minced	16.0	3.736	0.44	0.04
salt pepper				-	-	-	-
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.