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Empanada de Pino

Name: Empanada de Pino
Total time: 70 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Chile
Ingredients: 400g All-purpose flour; 150g Butter; 400g Ground Beef; 2 Onion; 2 Hard-boiled eggs; 12 Green olives; 2 tbsp Raisins; 1 tsp Cumin powder; 1 tsp Paprika; from 1 Egg Yolk (for brushing)

Snack

⏱ 70 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Baked turnovers filled with savory-sweet ground beef, boiled egg, and olives — Chile's festive national snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

The empanada de pino is a national food essential to Chile's Independence Day celebrations (Fiestas Patrias). Its filling, called pino, is ground beef cooked with plenty of onion and combined with boiled egg, black olives, and raisins. The empanadas are folded into half-moons and baked, brushed with egg yolk for a glossy finish.

🌆 Where it's eaten: During September's Independence Day, people eat hot empanadas from park stalls while watching the cueca folk dance.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 400g
Butter 150g
Ground Beef 400g
Onion 2
Hard-boiled eggs 2
Green olives 12
Raisins 2 tbsp
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Paprika 1 tsp
Egg Yolk (for brushing) from 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix flour, butter, salt, and warm water into a dough and chill.
Cook the onion slowly until sweet, add the ground beef, cumin, and paprika, cook to make the pino, and let it cool.
Roll the dough into rounds and place pino, a slice of boiled egg, an olive, and raisins in the center.
Fold into half-moons and pleat the edges firmly to seal.
Brush with egg yolk and bake at 200°C for 25–30 minutes.

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