Cheats Chicken Enchilada Empanadas Recipe

Shortcut ingredients make these spicy bites extra easy. You can also make them ahead and freeze, perfect for entertaining.

The ingredient of Cheats Chicken Enchilada Empanadas Recipe

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 small red onion finely chopped
• 1 2 small red capsicum deseeded finely chopped
• 125g can black beans rinsed drained
• 150g barbecue chicken shredded
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 200g jar old el paso hot taco sauce
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander
• 6 sheets frozen shortcrust pastry just thawed
• 2 egg yolks lightly whisked
• 200g 2 cups coarsely grated jalapenu0303o cheddar or mozzarella
• sour cream to serve
• coriander sprigs to serve
• sliced avocado to serve
• thinly sliced long fresh red chilli to serve

The Instruction of cheats chicken enchilada empanadas recipe

• preheat oven to 200c 180c fan forced line 2 baking trays with baking paper
• heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium high heat add the onion and capsicum cook stirring for 3 4 minutes or until softened add beans chicken and cumin cook stirring for 1 minute or until well combined and aromatic add the taco sauce and coriander cook stirring occasionally for 3 minutes or until the mixture thickens remove from heat and set aside to cool slightly
• use an 11cm round pastry cutter to cut 24 discs from the pastry dough lightly brush edge of discs with egg yolk place 1 tablespoonful of the filling on 1 half of each pastry disc top with the cheese fold pastry in half to enclose the filling use a fork to press down edges to seal transfer to prepared tray
• lightly brush the tops of the empanadas with egg yolk use the tip of a knife to pierce the top of each empanada a few times this helps steam escape bake for 20 25 minutes or until golden set aside to cool slightly
• top with sour cream avocado chilli and extra coriander season and serve

Nutritions of Cheats Chicken Enchilada Empanadas Recipe

fatContent: 530 102 calories
saturatedFatContent: 34 5 grams fat
carbohydrateContent: 16 7 grams saturated fat
sugarContent: 39 grams carbohydrates
fibreContent: n a
proteinContent: n a
cholesterolContent: 14 6 grams protein
sodiumContent: n a