Empanada de atún

Empanada de atún

Ingredients

  • 300 g onions
  • 150 g red pepper
  • 150 g green pepper
  • 1 garlic glove
  • 200 g tomato sauce 
  • 50 g de extra virgin olive oil 
  • 1 tsp salt 
  • 200 g tuna in olive oil
  • 2 boiled eggs
  • 1 egg
  • 2 sheet of puff pastry

 

Method

  1. Preheat your oven at 200 ºC or as per your puff pastry instructions.
  2. Chop the boiled eggs and reserve.
  3. Chop finely all the vegetables.
  4. In a frying pan heat the olive oil, add the vegetables and cook slowly until softened.
  5. Add the tuna, boiled eggs and tomato sauce and cook slowly for an extra 8 minutes until all the flavours are mixed together.
  6. Extend one of your puff pastry sheets in an non-stick oven tray and add the vegetables and tuna mix in top. Extend without reaching the puff pastry edges.
  7. Cover with the second portion of puff pastry.
  8. Seal all the edges twisting them around. With a fork, perforate the top of your empanada to let the air scape.
  9. Paint the top of the empanada with beaten egg and cook in the oven for around 30 min or as per your puff pastry instructions.