Empanadas & L ‘aqu’arium

Posted On June 16, 2010

Empanadas is a Spanish Stuffed pie. Usually stuffed with Meat, Chicken, Seafood potatoes and other vegetables. It is also spread over other countries like Argentina, Chile, Mexico, US to name a few.

I have done this empanadas with complete variation from a selection of flour for the dough, to the stuffing.

Ingredients:

For Stuffing

1. Chicken – 250gms, cut into small bite size pieces
2. Ginger paste – 1 tsp
3. Garlic paste – 1 tsp
4. Onion – 1 medium, finely chopped
5. Tomato – 1, finely chopped
6. Bell Pepper – 1 cup, cut into small bite-size pieces
7. Mushroom – 1/2 cup, cut into bite-size pieces
8. Oil – 1 Tbs
9. Garam Masala – 1/2 tsp
10. Chilli Powder – 1 tsp
11. Coriander powder – 1 tsp
12. Turmeric – 1/4 tsp
13. Coriander leaves – 2 Tbs finely chopped
14. Salt for taste
15. Cheese – to add it with  stuffing while assembly

For dough

1. Wheat flour – 1 cup
2. Water – 1/2 – 3/4 cup
3. Salt a little
4. Baking powder – 1/2 tsp
5. Margarine – 2 Tbs

Stuffing & Assembly

Method:

1. For the stuffing add oil to the hot pan. Add the onion and saute it till golden brown color. Add ginger-garlic paste followed by chicken.

2. After adding the chicken saute it for 2 min. Add the spice powder turmeric, chili, coriander, and garam masala powder. Add the salt and mix it up.

3. Add the tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes or until it becomes soft and mashable. Add the vegetables and cook for 5 more minutes.

4. Add the chopped coriander leaves and the stuffing is done.

5. Â Now make the dough. Add all the ingredients under the dough and mix it well to make a soft dough.

6. Dust a little of flour to the rolling board and roll the dough in to approx 2 -3 cm thickness of desired shape. Â In the center add the stuffing and cheese. Finally fold it at the edges.

7. Preheat the oven at bake it for 20 min at 180 C in the medium rack.

8. When it is done cut into pieces and serve it warm.

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L Aquarium – Europe’s Largest Aquarium.

This is one of the famous attractions of Barcelona. Located in the Port Vell and has an 80m long underwater tunnel with different seawater species. When you travel with kids this is an amazing place to take them and make them enjoy. The entrance fee is 22Euros fo

Some pictures of the Aquarium.

 

 

I don’t know this guy’s name. This was one among many fishes.

Cuttle Fish also called Sea Chameleon. It has the capability to change its color when needed.

Sea Horse. The females deposit the eggs to the male’s pouch, and the male seahorse fertilize the eggs.(Wikipedia)

Anemones. There were different colorful ones. A few of them……..

Don’t eat me, I am poisonous. (This was the tag on the information board for this fish)

Sting Ray.

This guy was the main attraction there. There were 3 of them I could count, really large ones.

The very next building to this aquarium is the IMAX 3D. As we have already watched IMAX 3D movies many times in our place, we did n’t visit this time in Barcelona.