Empanada Dough

Empanada Dough

from epicurious.com
240 min

This empanada dough recipe can be used to make any kind of empanada, including chicken empanadas, potato and chorizo empanadas, and more.

Ingredients

  • 2 ¼ cupsunbleached all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoonssalt
  • 1 stick(½ cup) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
  • 1 largeegg
  • ⅓ cupice water
  • 1 tablespoondistilled white vinegar

Directions

  1. 1

    Sift flour with salt into a large bowl and blend in butter with your fingertips or a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal with some (roughly pea-size) butter lumps.

  2. 2

    Beat together egg, water, and vinegar in a small bowl with a fork. Add to flour mixture, stirring with fork until just incorporated. (Mixture will look shaggy.)

  3. 3

    Turn out mixture onto a lightly floured surface and gather together, then knead gently with heel of your hand once or twice, just enough to bring dough together. Form dough into a flat rectangle and chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, at least 1 hour.