SALTEÑAS
SALTEÑAS. Alimento Base: Flour, Filling: In a casserole add the margarine and the spicy red pepper. Set to boil over high heat until the margarine separates from the pepper. Next add cumin, ground black pepper, oregano, and salt. Let cook for ten...
Ingredientes
- FILLING:
- 1 cup lard or margarine
- 1 cup ground spicy red pepper cayenne mixed with water
- ½ tablespoon ground cumin
- ½ tablespoon black ground pepper
- ½ tablespoon crumbled oregano
- 1½ tablespoon salt
- 2 cups white onion cut into small cubes
- 1½ cups green onion finely chopped
- 3 pounds lean meat cut into small cubes
- 1 cup potato peeled, cooked, and cut into small cubes
- ½ cup cooked green peas
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ½ tablespoon vinegar
- ½ cup parsley finely chopped
- 2 spoonfuls unflavored gelatin dissolved in 3 cups water
- ½ black olive per salteña
- 3 raisins per salteña
- 1 slice of boiled egg per salteña
- DOUGH:
- 12 cups flour
- 1½ cups lard or margarine boiling
- 6 whole eggs
- ½ cup sugar
- 3 teaspoons salt
- 2¼ cups lukewarm water more or less
Elaboración paso a paso
- Preparation
- Filling: In a casserole add the margarine and the spicy red pepper. Set to boil over high heat until the margarine separates from the pepper.
- Next add cumin, ground black pepper, oregano, and salt. Let cook for ten minutes over low heat so that the mixture does not stick. Stir constantly.
- Next add the white onion and let it cook for five more minutes.
- Finally add the green onion.
- Remove the casserole from the heat, add the sugar, vinegar, parsley, potato and cooked peas.
- In another casserole add the gelatin. Let it cook over high heat and as soon as it starts to boil, add the meat. Mix quickly and remove from the heat.
- Mix the first preparation with the gelatin and meat. Let it cool in the refrigerator one night or until it thickens.
- If wanted, add the olives, raisins and egg before it thickens or add them directly on the dough when preparing the salteñas.
- Dough: Sift the flour in a bowl and add the boiling lard or margarine. Mix quickly with a wooden spoon.
- Let it cool for a few minutes and add the eggs, the sugar and lukewarm water with salt.
- Knead until you get a dry dough. Cover the dough with a kitchen towel and let it rest for ten minutes.
- Divide all the dough into fifty small balls and thin them out one by one with a rolling pin, until you get round-shaped pieces (about ¼ an inch thick by 5 inches in diameter).
- On each round-shaped piece put a spoonful of the filling with the olive, raisins and egg, if these ingredients were not mixed before.
- Dampen the edges of each piece with water, fold each one and join the edges very well so that each salteña is closed perfectly. Leave the join on top.
- Put the salteñas on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour. Place each salteña separate from the next one.
- Bake them at a high temperature (European oven: 300ºC; American oven 572ºF) for between seven to ten minutes. Serve them warm.
- If desired, paint the salteñas before baking them. In a frying pan add 6 spoonfuls of lard or margarine, 2 spicy red peppers (ground), 4 spoonfuls of water and a teaspoon of salt.
- Mix the ingredients and cook them over low heat until the water evaporates.
- Remove the mixture from the heat and paint each salteña with a kitchen brush.
- You can also substitute meat with chicken, or you can combine both.
