Daring Bakers’ September 2012 Challenge: Empanada Gallega

As I type, this post is already one day late (DB challenges are supposed to go up on the 27th), and since it's 23:30, there's a fairly high chance it will actually technically be 2 days late. And that's before you start trying to fathom out time differences. But I'm telling myself better late than never!

Patri of the blog, Asi Son Los Cosas, was our September 2012 Daring Bakers' hostess and she decided to tempt us with one of her family's favourite recipes for Empanadas! We were given two dough recipes to choose from and encouraged to fill our Empanadas as creatively as we wished!

I was lucky enough to enlist the help of my brother and his Spanish wife for this challenge. They came round and were soon kneading dough and chopping onions, then waiting patiently for it to cook so we could try it out. I think it passed the test!

You can find full details of the challenge, the dough recipes and some filling ideas here. I made the first dough, and used about 1/3 plain flour and 2/3 seeded white bread flour.

We made two fillings, and separated them by sticking both sides of the dough together to make a barrier. One was a more traditional tuna, tomato and egg version, and the other was a 'randomly using up what's in the fridge' bacon, caramelised onion and red chard version. Both were delicious!