How to Make Award-winning Best Chicken Empanadas / Empanadillas

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook best chicken empanadas / empanadillas using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Best Chicken Empanadas / Empanadillas:

1. Take Vegetable
2. Make ready 1 clove minced garlic
3. Take Meat
4. Take 1 lb chicken thighs
5. Get Condiments
6. Make ready 2 tsp adobo
7. Take 1 packages Goya discos
8. Prepare 1 tsp sriracha
9. Get 1 tbsp butter
10. Make ready 1 canola oil
11. Prepare 1 1/4 cup water
12. Take 1 packages sazón
13. Make ready 2 bay leaves

Steps to make Best Chicken Empanadas / Empanadillas:

1. Combine chicken, bay leaves, minced garlic, 1/4 cup water, 1 pack of Sazon, 1 tsp of adobo & marinate over night
2. Remove the Goya discos from your freezer & allow them time to defrost
3. Remove the chicken from the zip lock bag & bake for 30 minutes at 350° F
4. Let the chicken cool then shred it by hand or using two forks.
5. Combine the chicken, butter, 1 pack of Sazon, 1 dash of adobo (to taste) & sriracha in a shallow pan. Simmer on low heat & stir until all of the ingredients are incorporated & remove from heat.
6. In a separate pot or deep fryer heat canola oil to med high heat.
7. On a flat surface take each disc & place two Tbsp of chicken into each one. Fold them in half & seal the edges completely using a fork.
8. Once the oil is heated fry the empanadillas no more than 5 minutes until golden crisp.
9. Be sure to rest them over paper towels or in a strainer to remove the excess oil.

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