Breakfast Empanadas
Breakfast Empanadas

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, breakfast empanadas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Breakfast Empanadas is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Breakfast Empanadas is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Make the empanada dough as described in the recipe or use store-bought empanada dough. Take a small bowl to whisk the eggs and season to taste. Finely dice the onions and sweet red pepper.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook breakfast empanadas using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Breakfast Empanadas:
  1. Make ready 8 eggs
  2. Take Half a leek stock finely chopped
  3. Get 1 shallot finely chopped
  4. Make ready 1/4 lb. Smoked ham diced
  5. Get 1 can green chilies
  6. Make ready Favorite hand pie dough

Breakfast empanadas are super easy to make using crescent rolls from a tube. Gently press together the seams to make the rectangle. Fill the bottom half of each rectangle with scrambled eggs, crumbled sausage and your choice of cheese. I used a sharp white cheddar.

Steps to make Breakfast Empanadas:
  1. Heat skillet to medium low and soften the leeks and shallots.
  2. Add the ham and green chilies. I used leftover spiral ham that I smoked earlier this year.
  3. Roll dough out to quarter inch thick and cut into 12 six inch rounds.
  4. Crack and whisk eggs. Add to the skillet once the ham is warm.
  5. Stir continuously. The goal here is to have super creamy and slightly undercooked scrambled eggs.
  6. Move the mixture to the bowl the eggs were mixed in. Wipe the skillet with a paper towel and start heating about a quarter inch of oil. I used peanut oil because it's delicious but canola oil works super good too - used before and it's my 'every day' oil.
  7. Load the rounds with the filling, fold and crimp the seam. Cut slits into the top surface for steam to escape.
  8. Put the empanadas in the skillet slit side up, don't over crowd. Once the bottom is golden flip and when otherside is golden remove.
  9. Put on a baking sheet in oven on warm until all are done.
  10. Eat some right away and freeze the rest. These are super awesome premade breakfasts for camping. Reheat in a cast iron on the campfire and crush it with some coffee and go hit the trail! With salty from the ham and creamy from the constantly stirred eggs you won't miss cheese in here, but can totally be added. A queso fresco would be great.

Transfer empanadas to paper towels to drain. Serve with salsa and sour cream, if desired. These breakfast empanadas are filled with a chorizo, potato, and scrambled egg mixture and enclosed in the best pastry ever (it's easy pastry, promise). It's like a breakfast burrito taken up a few notches. When I was younger and growing up in South America, one of my favorite foods to eat was empanadas.

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