empanada

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For those of you who have never eaten an empanada, I'll make some for you when I get home.

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  • THIS Bring Your Own Bottle establishment produces absolutely brilliant signature dishes including hazelnut chocolate panna cotta, crispy skin grouper, ginger cured duck and wild boar empanada. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • His "duck, duck, duck" offered seared duck breast, a confit leg, and duck liver-wild mushroom stuffing; a quartet of "four shells" tossed shrimp, mussels, clams, and scallops in a luscious tomato saffron broth with chorizo; "tres maneras" featured vaca frita, empanada, and ensalada, all composed as variations on beef short rib. —  Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue
  • Finish dinner off with a sugary empanada that comes stuffed with delectable bananas, and you'll be booking a trip to Acapulco to try another Sandoval creation. —  The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories
  • She found herself inside with Natalie Whitman, who remembers her as the empanada girl. —  Telenovela Love Garden
  • For just a couple cents over our $20 budget, we bought an incredible heap of food: five soft tacos, four crunchy tacos, two orders of cinnamon twists, a seven-layer nacho dip, two cheese rollups, one caramel apple empanada, two cheesy double beef burritos, a supreme chalupa, a large Pepsi and enough hot sauce to make you breathe fire (32 sauce packets in all ... we counted). —  Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
 

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  1. Spanish, from past participle of empanar, to coat with breadcrumbs : en-, in (from Latin in-; see en-1) + pan, bread; see panada.
 

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