Tuna empanada - video recipe !

Ingredients

Stuffing :

• 2 medium onions
• 1 red pepper
• 1/3 green pepper
• 14 ounces canned tuna
• 4 Tbsp tomato paste
• 1.5 ounce olive oil
• salt
• pepper

Pastry :

• 9 ounces water
• 3.5 cups flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 0.2 ounces dry baker's yeast
• 1 egg

Preparation

• Stuffing :
  In a pan, pour the olive oil and let it warm up, then cook together chopped onions and peppers.
• Once cooked, retrieve the cooking oil, which will be used for the pastry later.
  
• Put back on heat, then ad tuna, salt, pepper and stir.
• Add tomato paste, mix well, and let it cook for 5 minutes at low heat.
  
• Pastry :
  Mix together flour, salt, yeast, water and the vegetables cooking oil. Once pastry beggin to form, knead the dough.
• Grease a bowl with olive oil, and put the dough in it. Leave to settle until it gets twice its size.
  
• Then, degas (knead to take the air out of the dough). Cut in two, one part bigger than the other. Roll the bigger one out in a rectangle.
• Put it on a baking tray, and spread the tuna stuffing on it.
  
• Roll the second piece of dough out, shaped as a rectangle as well, and cover the stuffing with it. Cut the excess of dough out.
• Fold back the edges, and press with your fingers.
  
• Use a fork to pinch to dough, then ornate with the excess of dough you cut before.
• Brush with the egg, then bake for 25 minutes at 390°F (200°C).
  
• There you are !

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