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      Title: Empanaditas
 Categories: Appetizers, Meats, Fruits, Mexican, Cheese/eggs
      Yield: 12 Servings
 
      1 lb Ground beef
      2 tb Raisins; finely chopped
    1/4 ts Salt
    1/4 c  Cottage cheese; sm curd, cream
      1 lg Egg; separated
      1    Pastry recipe; two 10" crusts
    1/4 c  Onion; finely chopped, 1 md
      2 tb Green olives; chopped
    1/8 ts Pepper
      1 lg Egg; hard cooked *
      1 ts Water
      2 ts Milk
 
  * Hard boiled egg should be peeled and chopped.

  Cook and stir ground beef in 10-inch skillet, breaking up into
  small pieces, until brown; drain reserving 1 tb fat and the beef in
  the skillet. Stir in onion, raisins, olives, salt and pepper.
  Cover and cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Stir in cottage cheese
  and hard cooked egg. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Mix egg white and
  water until slightly foamy; reserve. Prepare pastry dough; gather
  into a ball. Divide into halves. Shape into 2 flattened rounds on
  lightly floured cloth covered surface. Roll 1 round of pasty into
  circle, about 14" in diameter.  Cut into 11 or 12 circles, 3-1/2"
  in diameter.  Spoon on 2 tb of the beef mixture at the center of
  each circle; brush edge of pastry with egg white mixture. Fold
  pastry circle up over filling; press edge with fork to seal. place
  empanaditas on ungreased cookie sheet  Repeat with remaining pastry
  circles. Gather any remianing pastry; shape into another round.
  Repeat rolling cutting and filling. Beat egg yolk and milk until
  well blended; brush over tops of empanaditas. Bake until golden
  brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve warm.
 
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