empanada
[ em-puh-nah-duh; Spanish em-pah-nah-thah ]
/ ˌɛm pəˈnɑ də; Spanish ˌɛm pɑˈnɑ ðɑ /
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noun Latin-American Cooking.
a turnover or mold of pastry filled with chopped or ground meat, vegetables, fruit, etc., and usually baked or fried.
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Example sentences from the Web for empanada
It also doesn’t hurt, she says, that the empanadas that they’ve always served travel particularly well.
In the afternoon, especially on the weekends, a cup of coffee and a baked good like an empanada or cookie may be added.
The locals’ favorite way to eat it is as the filling of a sweet empanada, though it’s also used to make candy or just eaten with a spoon.
A 48-year-old single mother in Virginia, she tried her best to get by after being furloughed from her Defense Department daycare job in March by selling homemade face masks and empanadas to help support her two dependent children, both in college.
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