Empanaditas

Recipe Cuisine: Appetizers
Recipe Category: Appetizers
Recipe Serves: 12

Recipes Ingredients:

1/2 lb Ground beef
1/4 c Onion; finely chopped, 1 md
2 tb Raisins; finely chopped
2 tb Chopped green olives
1/4 ts Salt
1/8 ts Pepper
1/4 c Cottage cheese;sm curd,cream
1 ea Egg;large hard cooked, *
1 ea Egg; large, separated
1 ts Water
1 x 10-inch pastryrecipe,2 crust
2 ts Milk

Recipe Instructions:

* Hard boiled Egg should be peeled and chopped. ~--------------------------------------------------------------------- ~--- Cook and stir ground Beef in 10-inch skillet, breaking up into small pieces, until brown; drain reserving 1 T of fat and the Beef in the skillet. Stir in onion, raisins, olives,salt and pepper. Cover and cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Stir in cottage Cheese and hard cooked egg. Heat Oven to 400 degrees F. Mix Egg white and water until slightly foamy; reserve. Prepare pastry dough; gather into a ball. Divide into halves. Shape into 2 flattened rounds on lightly floured cloth covered surface. Roll 1 round of pasty into circle, about 14 inches in diameter. Cut into 11 or 12 circles, 3 1/2-inches in diameter. Spoon on 2 t of the Beef mixture at the center of each circle; brush edge of pastry with Egg white mixture. Fold pastry circle up over filling; press edge with fork to seal. place empanaditas on ungreased Cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining pastry circles. Gather any remianing pastry; shape into another round. Repeat rolling cutting and filling. Beat Egg yolk and Milk until well blended; brush over tops of empanaditas. Bake until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve warm.