Steps to Make Favorite Humita/Corn Empanada Filling

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, humita/corn empanada filling. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Humita/Corn Empanada Filling is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Humita/Corn Empanada Filling is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

These open-faced vegetarian empanadas with a creamy corn filling flecked with spring onions are a classic Argentinean snack or appetizer. Creamy corn empanadas are an Argentinean classic. These can be made open like a tart or closed like a pasty - the choice is yours! These corn empanadas are based upon little crescent-shaped pastries from Argentina.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook humita/corn empanada filling using 21 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Humita/Corn Empanada Filling:

1. Get Turnover dough for Empanadas (see recipe here in Rosanas Ideas)
2. Make ready The filling:
3. Take Ingredients:
4. Get 3 tablespoons butter
5. Make ready 2 tablespoons oil
6. Make ready 24 oz fresh corn or frozen corn
7. Make ready 3 sweet onions finely chopped
8. Get 4 garlic cloves finely chopped
9. Take 1/2 tablespoon white pepper
10. Prepare 1 vegetable bouillon
11. Get Salt (to taste)
12. Take 100 grams Parmesan cheese
13. Get 1 cup corn starch
14. Make ready White Sauce/Bechamel:
15. Prepare 750 ml milk
16. Prepare Ingredients:
17. Make ready 1 stick butter / butter (4 oz.)
18. Make ready 1 cup cold milk
19. Get 1/2 tablespoon salt
20. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
21. Prepare 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg (optional)

Make the empanadas by filling each pastry with the filling before turning over and tightly to ensure no filling comes out. But empanadas in Argentina are like pizza is in the United States: available in a variety of crusts (baked or fried), with every imaginable filling (beyond from the basic beef, chicken, cheese, Caprese, corn-based humita, and mushroom are popular), and often delivered to your doorstep. I tried an Empanada de Humita (Corn Empanada)….and boy, was I hooked. Unfortunately most empanadas aren't vegan, as they have either butter or lard in the dough and/or are stuffed with cheese.

Instructions to make Humita/Corn Empanada Filling:

1. Ingredients for the Filling:
2. Preparation:
3. Preheat a pan over medium heat, add butter and oil
4. Add the onion, garlic, sauté until translucent
5. Add pepper, vegetable bouillon, mix
6. Add the corn, mix
7. Cover and cook for 3-5 minutes (frozen) or 5-10 minutes fresh - Taste to adjust the salt (reserve)
8. White Sauce/Bechamel Ingredients:
9. Place the cold milk in a bowl, add the corn starch, mix (reserve)
10. In a microwave safe container heat the liter of milk for 3 1/2 minutes
11. In a non-stick frying pan melt the butter at low temperature
12. Raise the temperature to medium / high, add the preheated milk
13. Add the reserved mixture, salt and nutmeg
14. Stir continuously with wooden spoon until it takes a thick consistency (reserve)
15. To finish the recipe:
16. Combine the filling with the White sauce / Bechamel
17. Add the parmesan cheese, mix (reserve)

I tried an Empanada de Humita (Corn Empanada)….and boy, was I hooked. Unfortunately most empanadas aren't vegan, as they have either butter or lard in the dough and/or are stuffed with cheese. That's why I decided to create my own vegan version - these taste so similar, I can hardly believe it! They can be filled with a variety of fillings from farmer fresh cheese, squash flowers, potatoes, ground meat, shrimp, chicken, etc. If you visit Mexico City or any small town, you will not have trouble finding.

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