Catholic Recipe: Pumpkin Filling for Empanaditas
Also Called: Relleno de Calabaza
Empanaditas is one of the traditional foods eaten in the California Missions. So many of these foods are a combination from Mexican, Spanish and Native American cultures. The filling can be sweet or savory: pumpkin, beans or meat.
Foods from the California Missions, like empanaditas, are a wonderful way to honor Franciscan saints like St. Junipero Serra.
DIRECTIONS
Cook all the ingredients for 15 minutes. Cool before filling the empanaditas.
Recipe Source: California Missions: A Complete Pictorial History and Visitor's Guide, The by Sunset Editors, Sunset Books, 1979
