rounds of empanada dough with scoops of beef and onion filling - Cecilia Di Dio/Shutterstock Who doesn't love a good empanada? These pastry pockets of delicious, savory or sweet fillings are beloved ...

El Porteño Empanadas owner Joseph Ahearne is familiar with taking risks. In 2008, he left a reliable career in manufacturing to pursue his love of cooking amid a recession. By 2012, he had turned his ...

1. Make the dough by whisking together the flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Add the melted butter, egg yolks, and water to the flour mixture and mix with a wooden spoon until a dough begins to form.

Empanadas are fried, baked or air-fried hand pies that have either a savory or sweet filling, which is very popular in South America. They are also known as empanadillas (or pastelillos), depending on ...

April 8 is National Empanada Day – the perfect excuse for this savory recipe for Cuban-Style Picadillo Empanadas, shared with "Sunday Morning" readers by Nashville-based chef Rita Martinez, a.k.a "The ...

Sonora has two distinct cuisines, one based on the bounty of the land, the other born of the bounty of the sea. The mountainous east is the land of roaming herds of cattle, wild greens grown in river ...

Empanadas are a delicious and comforting handheld pie beloved across Latin America, with good reason. They are a practical snack that can be enjoyed at any time of the day, with tasty fillings that ...

Let us now salute a few pinnacles of human achievement -- the great pyramids of Egypt, the internal combustible engine, space travel, the Skip Intro feature on Netflix programs. And meat pies.

Everyone in the world seems to love the idea of wrapped hand-held foods — Jamaican beef patties, Indian samosas, or Cuban pastelitos. But the wrapped food with the best shot at making the top of the ...