Note: The empanadas may be prepared ahead. Put them on a floured dishcloth and refrigerate, covered, until ready to fry. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Slice off ends of plantains and banana and cut a ...

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Cut a lengthwise slit into each plantain and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until the flesh is thoroughly soft and oozing through the slit, 40 to 50 ...

I was not sure what to expect as we pulled into the parking lot of Super Perros, at 2010 W. Tennessee St. The outside of the weather-beaten building is, to put it lightly, not the most inviting. Open ...

First things first: Decide if you need unripe or ripe plantains. If you want them to be sticky and caramelized when cooked—like maduros, which are sweet, ripe plantains fried in oil—you’ll need to buy ...

Argentines, Cubans, and Colombians, please accept my apologies. Your empanadas pale in comparison to Venezuela’s beef-, bean-, and sweet-plantain-filled empanadas de pabellón. Yes, your empanadas are ...

Plantain Empanadas Empanadas are corn masa turnovers, which can be filled with many different fillings. Empanada Dough Ingredients: 2 cups Maseca for tortillas (Maseca is a common brand name for ...

A LET’S-get-a-few-friends-together soiree begs for party snacks with a few surprise ingredients -- bite-size turnovers that have personality and that go down perfectly with either a glass of crisp, ...

Everyone in the world seems to love the idea of wrapped hand-held foods — Jamaican beef patties, Indian samosas, or Cuban pastelitos. But the wrapped food with the best shot at making the top of the ...

Popular in areas including Latin America, Southern Europe and parts of Southeast Asia, empanadas are pockets of dough that are stuffed with various fillings and then baked or fried. The result is a ...

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A long, manically cheerful mural on one of the walls at Salvadoran restaurant La Pupusa Loca re-imagines Los Angeles as a mostly empty, grass-filled valley, with nothing but one church, one school and ...