Pastries Recipes - Banana Empanadas Recipe

Ingredients

SERVES 4

• 2 bananas (diced)

• 2 teaspoons sugar

• Juice of 1/2 lemon

• 200g/7oz dark chocolate (broken into small pieces)

• 8 sheets filo pastry (halved lengthways)

• Vegetable oil for brushing

• Icing sugar for dusting

• Ground cinnamon for dusting

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Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°P/Gas mark 5.

2. Place the bananas in a mixing bowl with the sugar and lemon juice and stir well to combine. Add the chocolate.

3. Working one at a time, lay a sheet of filo in front of you and brush with oil.

4. Place a couple of teaspoonfuls of the banana mixture in one comer of the pastry, then fold over into a triangle shape to enclose the filling.

5. Continue to fold in a triangular shape until all the pastry is completely wrapped around the filling.

6. Make the remaining empanadas the same way. Brush all with a little more oil and dust with sugar and cinnamon to taste.

7. Place on a baking tray and bake in the oven for about 15 minutes, Remove from the oven and serve hot.