Curried Beef Empanadas

My brother has a theory that every culture has a dish where meat is cooked inside some kind of dough. I think he might be onto something.

Today I went for curried beef empanadas! Aka, another Bisquick recipe (feels like I haven’t had one in a while, no?)

Ingredients:

• ¼ lb beef
• 1 potato
• ½ onion
• 2 gloves garlic
• 1 ½ tablespoons curry powder
• 1/8 small head of napa cabbage
• 1/3 cup milk (not pictured)
• 2 cups Bisquick
• ½ cup of boiling water

Side note I: I forgot I was going to use some shiitake mushroom, so I didn’t. It’d probably be good though.

1) Peel and slice potato into small cubes.

2) Mince onion and garlic.

3) Shred cabbage.

4) In a small skillet, cook garlic, onion, and garlic. Cook until potatoes are cooked through.

5) Add beef.

6) Add cabbage.

7) Add curry powder.

8) Add milk (to smooth out the flavor of the curry mixture).

9) Set beef mixture aside and allow to cool.

10) Mix Bisquick with hot water. Roll into a ball. Add more bisquick if too watery.

11) Cut into about six equal parts. I had a little of stuffing left over so I would try and get seven parts.

12) Spread dough out into about 2 ½~ 3 inch diameters.

13) Fill each with a heaping tablespoon or so of the meat mixture.

14) Seal off each empanada.

15) Coat the bottom of a pan with oil/butter/cooking spray to prevent stickage. I also brushed each empanada with some melted butter to make them brown pretty.

16) Cook for about 20~30 minutes at 375 degrees or until golden brown.

Cost breakdown:

• ¼ lb beef: $2.69/2= $1.34
• 1 potato: $0.06
• ½ onion: $0.20/2= $0.10
• 2 gloves garlic: $0.03x2= $0.06
• 1 ½ tablespoons curry powder: $0.05
• 1/8 small head of napa cabbage: $0.52/8= $0.07
• 1/3 cup milk (not pictured): $0.30/3= $0.10
• 2 cups Bisquick: $0.15x6= $0.90

Total: $1.34+$0.06+$0.10+$0.06+$0.05+$0.07+$0.10+$0.90= $2.68
Total per empanada: $2.68/6= $0.45 each