Chicken Empanadas

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I felt that as others have said, they are very time consuming but they do taste pretty good. No, not something I would go on and on about but a nice change and even my 2 yr old enjoyed them. (I omitted the Jalapeno I would like to say that the filling does seem really dry but by the time all those cheeses melt it turns out perfect. I made them two ways, 1. I used won ton wrappers and 2. Crescent roll dough. The won ton wrapper ones were not nearly as good. I fried them rather than baking them and they were just... ok. The crescent roll ones, well I fried the first set of 8 and thought they were awful! I am not one to throw things out so I baked the remaining crescent roll dough empanadas and they were lovely! I suggest do NOT fry the ones made with pie dough, crescent roll dough or anything along those lines. I am glad I did not toss them out because now that I baked the ones remaining I keep going back in the kitchen and snacking on more and more. : Yummmm - O!

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We make these every time the girls get together! So delicious!! Make sure you brush melted butter over the tops before you bake them so the dough doesn't dry out but becomes nice and crispy! We love to eat these with a little sour cream and salsa!

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Made these for a Party and everyone was asking for the recipe!! The recipe makes way for filling so I bought more pie crusts! They were all gone by the end of the night! I used more cream cheese than the recipe calls for after reading reviews they were dry and they came out great!! Thanks Paula!

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Great, but very time consuming. My family asks for them all the time. You need a rainy day to make them.

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My family thought this was good but not wonderful. Probably wont make it again.

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My Tex Mex is way better than hers. She needs to stick to fried chicken and other greasy foods.

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I made these for a party and everyone wanted the recipe! They were delicious. I did fry them, but since i made so many I think I will just bake them next time. I used the Goya discs found at Krogers. There was some left over filling, so I let my family taste test it. After the first bite they all wanted to try the real thing. I will be making these again!!!

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These turned out great! I shredded the chicken and substituted anaheim pepper for bell and jalapeno and I loved them!

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I'm so glad a previous reviewer suggested the empanada dough recipe from epicurious. Me & my husband don't eat lard or shortening (and every frozen pastry dough has one of those plus hygrogenated oil. Now I can make this recipe. yay!

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I really liked this recipe but my family is not into really spicy food. I altered the recipe the second time to better suit the entire family. Used a can of green chiles instead of jalapeno. Used half of the cumin it called for. I did follow the recommendation by some reviewers to increase the amount of cheese and added 8 oz of cream cheese instead of 4 oz. It's was wonderful! We really enjoyed it. It does make a lot of filling and would also agree that you would need at least 3 pie crusts rather than 2. The leftover filling was good on flour tortillas, so nothing went to waste. This recipe does freeze well, but be sure to freeze the empanada separately on a flat sheet pan before transferring to whatever vessel you plan on keeping them in.