Empanada Pork Filling recipe

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Ingredients

1 pound ground pork
salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 (9 ounce) box frozen peas and carrots
1 (1.5 ounce) box raisins
1 small potato, diced

Nutrition Info

67.3 calories
carbohydrate: 4.4 g
cholesterol: 12.3 mg
fat: 3.9 g
fiber: 0.7 g
protein: 4 g
saturatedFat: 1.2 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 25.3 mg
sugar: 1.3 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Cook the ground pork in a nonstick skillet over medium heat until completely browned, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

  2. Heat the olive oil in a separate skillet over medium heat, cook the onion and garlic in the hot oil until the onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir the browned pork into the onion mixture, cook and stir another 5 minutes. Mix the potato, peas and carrots, and raisins into the pork, allow the mixture to cook together until the vegetables are completely tender, about 10 minutes. Allow the filling to cool completely before spooning into empanada dough.

Recipe Yield

1 1/2 cups

Recipe Note

This pork filling can be made way ahead of time to shorten the preparation time for these Filipino empanadas. Use my recipe for empanada dough.

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