Meat Pastry 'à la Elvirita' (Embozo)
Origin: Buenos Aires
Source: Elvira Vela, 1890
Ingredients
- 1 pound flour
- 1/2 pound beef fat, pork fat, or butter
- salt
- sugar
- milk
- sirloin/loin beef (solomo)
- raisins
- hard-boiled eggs
- olives
- pepper
- garlic
Instructions
- Mix one pound of flour, half a pound of beef fat, pork fat, or butter, salt to taste, and an equal amount of sugar.
- Add milk little by little, kneading with both hands until incorporated.
- Make a mince of sirloin beef with raisins, chopped hard-boiled eggs, cut olives, ground pepper, salt and sugar to taste, and a touch of ground garlic if desired.
- Roll out the dough and form the embozo as a pie or an empanada.
- Bake in a strongly heated oven, as the cooking is quick.