Newbie here. Have fig trees and making some empanadas with lean ground beef, figs, onions, bell pepper, and green olives. Recipe says bake at 375 for 15 minutes. Pillsbury crust directions say bake at 450 for 10 minutes. Pillsbury website says if baking at 375, bake for 40 minutes. What's the answer here? Thanks.
Assuming your filling ingredients are precooked (those sound amazing, by the way), 375 and start checking at 15 minutes. Pull them when they're golden brown and scrumptious-looking.
Thanks. Yes, ingredients are pre-cooked. Then folding into uncooked dough. I guess I will do the 375 like you say. The recipe comes from the Valley Fig Growers (California).
Yep, if the filling is raw, designate 1 to be the pincushion and check periodically with an instant read thermometer after about 10 mins, otherwise just eyeball the crust. 40 mins sounds entirely excessive.
Every oven is going to run a bit differently. Follow your recipe, check for doneness at 15 minutes. If it needs a little more time, give it an extra 5-10 minutes to bake. If you still think it needs more, depending on how much more, you might turn off the oven and let the carryover heat finish them off. Are you doing an egg wash on these?
Thanks. For these, the egg wash is just the edges to glue them shut. My girlfriend is making the sweet empanadas. ones. Her recipe is a complete egg wash.