Fried or sometimes baked, these savory Latin turnovers can be stuffed with anything--meat, fish or vegetables. Tere’s Mexican Grill: In a small Hollywood mini-mall, this family-run grill serves puffy ...

In Mexican cuisine, the pastry turnovers known as empanadas fall into two main categories: sweet or savory. Sweet empanadas made with pastry dough come in several shapes, from traditional half-moons ...

The same, blissfully, goes for empanadas. Be they fried, baked, filled con carne or vegetarian — or labeled a “pastelito” or “empanadilla” or otherwise — you know it when you see it. The empanada’s ...

As a child growing up in Puerto Rico in a jumbled Argentine and Colombian household, I found a link to all those cultures through empanadas. Yet the empanadas from each country were different — the ...

Empanadas, multi-bite pastry filled with goodness that is either sweet or savory, probably were the world's first carry-away food. Food historians are blurry on their origin, but chances are they were ...

Empanadas - those familiar, golden, hand-held pies - are popular throughout Central and South America, from Mexico to the southernmost tip of Argentina. But in Chile, they are something of an ...

All empanadas originate from the same Northern Spanish dish. But the hand-held pastries have evolved to be as diverse as the people who make them. At its most basic, an empanada consists of dough that ...

Empanadas from Seba Seba Bakery (Photo by Santiago Flórez/The Latino Newsletter) NEW YORK — When I think of empanadas, I think of golden fried corn-dough, filled with beef, onions, potatoes, peppers, ...