empanada
Definitions of empanada
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dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry toptypes:tartaa small open pie with a fruit fillingpastel de carnepie containing mincemeatpastel de manzanapie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugarpastel de merengue de limónpie containing lemon custard and topped with meringuepastel de arándanospie containing blueberries and sugarpastel de pacanapie made of pecans and sugar and corn syrup and butter and eggspastel de calabazapie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugarpastel de calabazasimilar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkinempanadillasmall pie or pastyempanada de carnepie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit doughquichea tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables)empanadillasmall meat pie or turnovertype of:
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