Recipe · Savory pastries
Super quick tuna empanada
- 7 ingredients
- 12 steps
Ingredients
- 2 sheets puff pastry
- 2 cans tuna in oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1 tomato, chopped
- Pitted olives, chopped (optional)
- 1 beaten egg
Step-by-step preparation
- Preheat the oven to 200 °C.
- In a skillet, sauté the onion and red pepper until golden.
- Add the chopped tomato and cook for a few more minutes.
- Add the tuna, flaking it with a fork, and mix everything well.
- If you like, add some chopped olives to the mixture.
- Place one sheet of puff pastry on a baking sheet.
- Spread the tuna and vegetable mixture over it, leaving a 1 cm border.
- Cover with the other sheet of pastry and seal the edges by pressing with a fork.
- Make a few diagonal cuts in the top of the empanada to let the steam out.
- Brush the top with beaten egg.
- Bake for 20–25 minutes, until golden.
- Let it cool a little before serving.
Your quick and easy tuna empanada is ready.