DISH RESEARCH · Snack
Empanada
Baked Mendoza-style pastries with beef, egg and olives.
About Empanada
Layla Pujol’s empanadas mendocinas represent the baked beef-filled style associated with Mendoza, Argentina. This version pairs a milk-enriched pastry with ground-beef picadillo, hard-boiled egg and green olives.
Smoked paprika and ground hot pepper give the filling its pronounced seasoning, alongside cumin, oregano, onion and green onion. Lard is the selected fat for both pastry and filling.
The individual pastries have folded, sealed edges and golden tops. Their soft pastry surrounds the savoury filling, with chimichurri selected from the publisher’s dipping-sauce choices for warm presentation.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Egg, Milk.
Product-dependent or unconfirmed: Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Empanada
Layla Pujol’s Mendoza-style beef empanadas mendocinas.
- FlourBase
- Egg yolkBinder
- LardCooking medium
- MilkLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- Ground beefProtein
- White onionAromatic
- Smoked paprikaSeasoning
- Ground hot pepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Fresh oreganoAromatic
- Ground cuminSeasoning
- Green onionsAromatic
- Hard-boiled eggsFilling
- Green olivesFilling
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- EggFinish
- ChimichurriAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Flour: Wheat. Generic flour; cereal not explicitly named, Wheat pending. Dough and dusting consolidated.
- Egg yolk: Egg
- Lard: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Lard selected over butter or mixed fat in both dough and picadillo.
- Milk: Milk
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ground beef: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- White onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Smoked paprika: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ground hot pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit ground hot-pepper alternative chosen over unspecified chili-powder blend; cultivar unknown.
- Fresh oregano: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader oregano link; source fresh form.
- Ground cumin: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Hard-boiled eggs: Egg. Broader egg identity; source hard-boiled form.
- Green olives: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Type not named; not assumed black pepper.
- Egg: Egg. Separated white seals pastry and yolk finishes top; water-sealing alternative excluded.
- Chimichurri: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Selected named dipping-sauce option; no separate linked sauce formula imported.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Argentina
- ArgentinaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Argentinian Cuisine
- Argentine CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.