Dominican empanadas (Pastelillos)

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 lb ground beef
• 2 Roma tomatoes diced
• 1 large onion diced
• 4 jalapenos or Serrano peppers

  diced
• 4 garlic cloves

  minced
• Salt & Pepper to taste
• Soy sauce to taste

  and sodium
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• 2 tbsp cooking oil

  not olive oil
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 package wonton wraps

Instructions

• 1 Season ground beef with cumin, salt, and pepper and set aside to marinate.
• 2 Heat 1 tbsp oil, sauté the onions, Roma tomatoes, jalapenos & garlic (creating a
  sofrito).
• 3 Add salt and pepper to these vegetables as they cook.
• 4 Cook until soft (about 5-6 min on medium heat)
• 5 Once soft, set aside.
• 6 Drain the liquid from the sofrito.
• 7 Next, cook the seasoned ground beef in 1 tbs of oil. Make sure to break the
  meet-up as it cooks.
• 8 Once the meat has browned, drain off some of the excess oil (but not all)
• 9 Add the sofrito to the meat then continue cooking.
• 10 Once the meat is cooked add soy sauce (1/2 tsp at a time) to taste.
• 11 Once the meat has cooked let cool at room temp
• 12 If you try to fill the wontons with hot ground beef they will fall apart.
• 13 As you fill the wontons with the cooled meat, add a few raisins (optional).
• 14 Seal the wontons with water (dip your finger in water, rub all four sides of the
  wonton, fold over and press.
• 15 Indent with a fork to seal them shut.
• 16 Then pan fry in 1 Cup canola Oil until the pastellilos until golden, about 30
  seconds a side

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