Chorizo Empanadas [Recipe + Video] Filling + 3 Types of Dough

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 pound Mexican-style chorizo sausages

  [454g]
• 1 red onion

  (medium-size, minced [65 g]
• 1 red bell pepper

  or green bell pepper (diced [76g]
• ⅓ cup pitted green olives

  sliced
• 1 cup tomato sauce

  [115g]
• Salt

  (optional)
• 1 sprig parsley

  for garnish, chopped (optional)
• 2 egg (medium)

  hard-boiled, minced
• ½ cup diced boiled potatoes
• 1 cup cheddar cheese

  (or cheese of your preference

Instructions

• 1 Slice the casing with a knife and remove and discard the casings.
• 2 Heat a skillet over medium heat. Add the sausage. Cook stirring, breaking down
  the clumps, until the chorizo is browned and cooked through (about 7 minutes.
  Discard excess grease if you find it necessary (it wlil depend on the sausage
  you use).
  
  Stir in onion and cook and stir until it turns translucent. Add pepper and
  olives and cook stirring for a minute.
  
  Pour in tomato sauce and stir until it is heated through. Season with salt to
  taste (I didn't add any). Remove from the heat and sprinkle with parsley
  (optional).
• 3 For empanadas and pastelitos, you can mix in the minced boiled egg or the diced
  boiled potato. Alternatively, you can stuff empanadas with cheese and this
  chorizo stuffing.

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