Spicy vegetable empanadas (Mexican pastry turnovers)

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By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (21)

30.00 ml sunflower oil
3.00 garlic — cloves, crushed
410.00 g chickpeas — tinned and drained
3.00 carrots — grated
250.00 g butternut — diced
2.00 onion — chopped
2.00 peppers — chopped
125.00 ml tomato purée
80.00 ml sherry
250.00 ml water
2.00 ml dried chilli — crushed
5.00 ml allspice — ground
5.00 ml cumin — ground
5.00 ml cinnamon — ground
2.00 ml cloves — ground
5.00 ml sugar
15.00 ml lemon juice — fresh
10.00 ml gravy powder
125.00 g almonds — slivered
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750.00 g readymade shortcrust pastry
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Method:

Heat oil in pan and sauté the vegetables and spices. Add tomato purée, sherry, water, sugar and lemon juice. Reduce heat and simmer, covered for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir the gravy powder into the vegetable mixture to thicken. Season to taste. Add almonds and set aside. Roll pastry out to 3 mm thickness and cut out 10 circles of 12 cm each (use a saucer as a template). Place a spoonful of the mixture on one side of each pastry round. Moisten pastry edges with a little water. Fold over to enclose and press edges firmly together with a fork to seal. Bake pies on a greased baking tray in oven preheated to 200 ºC for 15 to 20 minutes.



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