Ingredients to make Quinoa Empanadas:
- ½ cup yellow cornmeal
- 2 cans of Tuna
- 1 cup of Quinoa
- 1 unit of white onion
- 1 glass of water
How to make Quinoa Empanadas:
- For these delicious quinoa empanadas, the first thing you should do is prepare all the ingredients, these are for 7 empanadas.
- In a very hot frying pan, fry the chopped onion in squares for 3 minutes over medium heat.
- Add the tuna and quinoa, previously cooked in water, and cook the whole for 3 more minutes.
- Remember that quinoa is a cereal with a lot of food and very easy to prepare, you just have to cook it in water until the grains open, you can get this cereal in health food stores.
- Separately, mix the cornmeal with a little salt and add the water. Knead until the dough is homogeneous, as seen in the image.
- Roll out the dough, place the tuna and quinoa filling and form the empanadas. If you have a mold, do it with it, if you can’t do it with a glass.
- Remember to seal the edges well with a fork.
- Fry in abundant hot oil until golden. Then, leave them on absorbent kitchen paper to remove excess oil.
- Serve and taste these delicious quinoa empanadas.
- Remember that you can vary the filling to your liking and instead of tuna, make meat patties or shrimp patties, for example.
