Baked Tuna Empanada
Baked Tuna Empanada

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, baked tuna empanada. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Buy Groceries at Amazon & Save. The first time I tried a tuna empanada, I was extremely disappointed. I'd recently moved to Spain and still had loving memories of the empanadas I'd enjoyed while living in Argentina- baked and served piping hot, filled with oozing meat, cheese, corn… These baked tuna fish empanadas are made with a filling of canned tuna, onions, bell peppers, garlic, olives, capers, paprika, and oregano.

Baked Tuna Empanada is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Baked Tuna Empanada is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have baked tuna empanada using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Tuna Empanada:
  1. Take 1 onion
  2. Prepare 1 long sweet red pepper
  3. Make ready 8 cherry tomatoes
  4. Get Puff pastry
  5. Make ready Smoked paprika
  6. Prepare 1 cup tomato pure (passata)
  7. Make ready 1 tea spoon olive oil
  8. Get 2 tins tuna chunks
  9. Prepare Boiled egg white
  10. Make ready Beaten egg

Add tomatoes, pepper, onion, and garlic; sprinkle with salt and pepper and sauté until vegetables are soft, stirring often. Tuna empanada is one of the many varieties of empanada. When it comes to their fillings tuna empanadas are quite popular here alongside with spinach and cheese ones. Empanadas evolved from a dish originally brought over to Latin America by conquerors from Northern Spain.

Instructions to make Baked Tuna Empanada:
  1. Add chopped onion in a fried pan with olive oil. Fry in low heat until soft.
  2. Once the onion is done, add the red pepper and keep it in low heat
  3. Add the chopped tomatoes
  4. Optionally, add a tea spoon of smoke paprika.
  5. Add the tuna chunks and mix
  6. Add the tomato pure and the boiled egg white and mix.
  7. Spread the mix in the puff pastry. Cover it with another layer of pastry. Roll over the edges.
  8. Using a brush, spread beaten egg over the pastry. Using a fork, poke the top layer.
  9. Introduce it in a preheated oven at 180 degrees. Once is brown on the top, take it out and leave it rest 10 minutes before serving.

In its most primitive form, it was a filling of chicken or tuna (often accompanied by peppers and onions) that was baked into a rectangular yeast dough and then cut into squares for serving. These Tuna Empanadas remind me of those hot summer days on the beach in my hometown of Tampico. Along come memories of the roaming food vendors selling all sorts of tasty seafood fare, and the visitors that spent hours under the "palapas" (palm roofs), enjoying the ocean breeze. These Tuna Empanadas are made with Chunk Light Tuna, spices, tomatoes and cheese. Just spoon the mixture into sections of a pie crust, fold and seal, then bake until golden brown.

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