Empanada sauce

This is an empanada condiment created particularly for serving with the homemade empanadas I shared today. Loosely based connected a accepted Colombian condiment called hogao, it has a wickedly bully smokey flavour from char-roasting tomatoes successful the oven. Use leftovers arsenic a dip!

I’m a steadfast believer than empanadas should beryllium truthful great, you privation to drawback them consecutive retired of the oven and devour them plain. Make the beef empanadas – and you will! Hot and crispy connected the outside, juicy and flavourful connected the inside, it’s everything an empanada should be!

But it is bully to person thing bedewed to dip empanadas into due to the fact that the world is that determination is lone truthful juicy you tin marque the empanada filling without compromising the crispiness of the base. Empanadas are not like, say, Aussie nutrient pies which person molten gravy fillings.

While the beef empanada recipe includes assorted elemental condiment options, this empanada condiment was created particularly and is by acold the best!

Ingredients successful empanada sauce

This empanada condiment is based connected a accepted Colombian condiment called hogao and is made with herb that’s roasted until charred for beauteous smoky flavour.

• Tomatoes – 2 mean ones, astir 125g/4oz each.

• Garlic cloves – Peel the tegument disconnected but support them whole.

• Spices – cumin for flavour and cayenne capsicum for a lukewarm buzz.

• Sugar – conscionable a tiny amount, to equilibrium the flavour

• Lime juice – for freshness/sour. Substitute with citrus oregon a vinegar (it’s lone a tiny magnitude truthful substitutions are flexible)

• Green onion – for a spot of freshness and bully bits of greenish successful the sauce

How to marque Empanada sauce

Two elemental steps:

1. Roast the herb and ail until you get bully charred edges which gives the condiment its peculiar smokey flavour; then

2. Blitz!

Roast the tomatoes until charred connected the edges for a beauteous smokey flavour

Blitzing empanada sauce

The consistency is similar a salsa dip

Serve with fresh, homemade empanadas.

Weep with joy.

No look video for this 1 due to the fact that it’s an other look for the beef empanadas and comparatively consecutive forward. Though I tin ne'er defy if there’s demand, truthful permission your petition beneath if you’d similar a look video! – Nagi x

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Empanada dipping sauce

This is simply a dipping condiment to travel the beef empanadas that I published today, though it tin beryllium utilized for immoderate benignant of empanadas – oregon utilized arsenic a dip for maize chips, veggie sticks etc!

Loosely based connected a accepted Colombian condiment called hogao. Makes capable for 1 batch beef empanadas.

Course Sauce

Cuisine South American

Keyword empanada sauce

Calories 182cal

Author Nagi

Ingredients

• 2 medium tomatoes (125g/4oz each), chopped successful fractional and halfway chopped out
• 2 garlic cloves , kept whole, peeled
• 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1/8 tsp ground cumin
• 1/8 tsp ground cayenne oregon axenic chilli (not US chili pulverization mix)
• 1/8 tsp white sugar
• 1/4 tsp cooking/kosher salt
• 1 1/2 tsp lime juice (sub citrus oregon vinegar)
• 2 tbsp sliced greenish onion

Serving

• Beef empanadas

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F (200°C fan).
• Roast herb 20 min – Toss the tomatoes and ail with the olive lipid successful a bowl. Place the tomatoes connected the tray, chopped broadside up, past roast for 20 minutes.
• Roast ail 15 min – Add ail to the tray and roast for different 15 minutes until the edges of the herb are browned. Remove from oven and chill connected tray.
• Blitz – Transfer to a instrumentality that conscionable fits the caput of a instrumentality blender. Add each remaining ingredients but the greenish onion. Blitz until creaseless – astir 5 seconds. Add the greenish bulb and blitz until it's finely chopped.
• Serve with empanadas – oregon maize chips, rootlike sticks, bread!

Notes

Leftovers volition support for 5 days successful the fridge. oregon freezer for 3 months.

Nutrition for full batch.

Nutrition

Calories: 182cal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 10g | Sodium: 596mg | Potassium: 621mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 2057IU | Vitamin C: 38mg | Calcium: 39mg | Iron: 1mg

Life of Dozer

He doesn’t realise this condiment comes with beefy empanadas. You snooze, you suffer Dozer!

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