Vegan Baked Empanadas - Two ways - Cheeseburger Filling and Black beans and Corn

Every country has their versions of dumplings, fried or baked and mostly all of its delicious. Today I have tried South American's favorite dumpling called Empanadas, all the countries there has their version of Empanadas but here I have made two different versions and baked it and served it with spicy and garlicky chimichurri sauce. Again you can use your favorite protein and make it , I have used gardein ground be'f. 

Ingredients for Cheeseburger :

1 cup gardein ground be'f you can use soy granules also

1/2 cup thinly chopped onion

Ketchup , mayo, mustard as per taste

3-4 pickle chips finely chopped

salt and black pepper as per taste

Cheese as needed

1 tbsp. oil

Method : 

Heat a oil in pan, add onion and cook till its soft, add beef , mayo , mustard, pickle chips, ketchup , salt and pepper and mix it . Cook till its all dry and mix it nicely. 

Take it out and keep it aside.

Ingredients for Mexican Black beans and Corn:

1/2 cup canned black beans, drained

1/4 cup thawed yellow corn

1/2 carrot grated

1/2 chopped jalapenos

2 garlic cloves finely chopped

Paprika powder , garlic powder, salt, roasted cumin powder and oregano as per taste

1 tbsp. oil

Method : 

In a same pan, you made cheeseburger filling, wipe it with paper towel. 

Add oil in it and when its hot, add garlic in it.

When its cook for 30 seconds or so add jalapenos and cook for 30 seconds.

Then add beans , corn, carrot and mix it while adding spices in it. 

Cook till everything combines and dry. 

Keep it aside and let it cool little bit before you stuffed it in discs.

For Empanadas 

1 pack of Goya Empanada baking discs

2 cups of Shredded cheese

Water to seal the disc

Take one disc out, wet your finger in water and put the water on sides of disc.

Put two tbsp. of stuffing in the middle of the disc and same amount of cheese on top of it. You can do more cheese and less stuffing too. Its totally up to you. 

Fill it both stuffing in all the discs and bake it in air fryer for 10 minutes at 395 F .

Temperature is varied with all machines so adjust as per your machine requirement. 

When its done on one side, flip it on other side so its cooked from both side. 

Serve hot with spicy , garlicky  HCF: Chimichurri Sauce on side.