@cyredawn22 24 March 2022

Home made:Chicken Empanada A little throwback why I wrote this chiken empanada.I fell inlove with chicken empanada during my high school's days. When one of my classmates bring this in the classroom and sell every recess time. That time it cost only 5 pesos and I only have 10-15 pesos baon/allowance everyday. At first I don't know what is the taste call me stupid but it was my first time seeing this kind of food. And without further do I buy only 1 piece and to my first bite I loved the taste of the dough crispy and soft and to my second bite I already taste the filling and for me it was heaven haha OA pero talagang masarap. Her mother is really a good at making kakanin in our town that's why the chicken empanada sell easily. And everyday I used to buy 1-2 pieces of it during recess time and nakakabusog talaga siya. That's is why when I became a mother I learned youtube toturial and started to practice .It's not easy to make a crepe o the dough, always trial and error . I try and try until it makes perfect. So here are the ingredients you need to prepare for this chicken empanada. Chicken (breast part) Flour Onion Potato Sugar Baking powder Salt Raisins Ground black pepper Egg white Green beans Carrots Chicken cubes Garlic Butter Water Cooking Oil There are two stages in making empanada. 1st stage will make the filling then next we'll make the crepe(pambalot sa filling ng empanada. Procedures to make fillings Get a pan Put cooking oil in a pan Saute garlic and onion -Garlic first once the garlic becomes brown, well add the onion next. Let this cook until the onion get soft and then Add the chicken Use breast chicken , slice into cubes, saute the chicken and wait until the chicken becomes light brown. Add chicken cubes Put a little bit of water -mix well and let it simmer for a while. After simmering the chicken and draining the liquid. Add the carrots and potatoes. Put carrots and potatoes -be sure that potatoes and carrots slice into cubes and let it soak in the water if it is not time to put in the pan. Thats what you need to do after slicing. Because once it's exposed in oxygen the oxidation process will happen it means that the potato will darken. So in soaking it in water we can prevent it from getting darker. Saute a bit and simmer it until potatoes and carrots soften. Put green peas Raisins Sugar Saute and simmer again for a little bit. Lastly put salt and a little dash of pepper. After doing the filling you need to do the crepe(pambalot sa filling) First step in making crepe. Mix the dry ingredients Flour Baking Powder Sugar Salt Butter And mix it well with beater. Put the butter that cut into small an thin while adding the butter mix the dry inhredients using your clean hands or pastry blender. Just make it properly. Put some cold water while mixing. Mix it gradually .Mix it until you can make a dough. After mixing it well and you make a dough you can get a small of it and form a ball using your clean hands. After finishing it just leave it for 20minutes and put inside the refrigerator to cool it. The purpose of that is to maimtain the flaky texture. After putting in the ref for quite sometime well flatten it and put in the filling. But you first put flour in the table before flatten the dough. You need to make a circular shape. Don't worry if the dough is not a perfecr circle. It doesn't need to be that way. Add the filling in the center, fold the dough an lock it by pressing.

There are two types of locking the empanada first using a hand and one is by pressing a fork to make a design also .

Ready to fry !

Craving? Hahaha So delicious.