Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Ilocos Empanada - A Must Try!
Tuesday, January 15, 2013What is an Empanada ? According to Wikipedia " Filipino empanadas usually contain ground beef, pork or chicken, potatoes, chopped...
What is an Empanada? According to Wikipedia
"Filipino empanadas usually contain ground beef, pork or chicken, potatoes, chopped onions, and raisins in a somewhat sweet, wheat flour bread."
However, "Empanadas in the northern part of the Ilocos are different. These usually have savoury fillings of green papaya, mung beans, and sometimes chopped Ilocano sausage (longanisa) and egg yolk. Rather than the soft, sweet dough, the dough used to enclose the filling is thin and crisp, mostly because Ilocano empanadas use rice flour coloured orange with achuete (annatto), and is deep-fried rather than baked."
I am not in love with empanadas really, so I don't mind not getting one when they are served at parties. But that all changed when I was asked by hubby to try out that newly opened FariƱas eatery near our place in Manila. They serve Ilocos Empanada and sell Ilocandia Original Sukang Iloko. He said he wanted to try it out because the Ilocos Empanada was featured in Kris TV (Oh diba hubby is watching morning talk shows!) We ordered and while waiting for the infamous empanada, I watched and documented how Ilocos Empanada is prepared.