These were good, the dough was a little bland, but all in all good. The dough wasn't as hard for me, it worked out fine, and the filling is pritty much exactly what I put into my Apple Pie. It taste like a mini Apple Pie.

The dough was extremely difficult to make. The filling, however, was delicious!

I used Goya empanada discs and I fried them...fabulous fruit filling!!!

not impressed. the filling was ok at best, tasted a lot like a canned sloppy joe--and I've made a lot of crusts or pies, whatever, and this dough would not work...couldn't get it thin enough to hold the meat and too thick it tasted like unlevened bread. would never attempt again.

I am rating the pastry only, because I made up my own filling. The pastry is very light, and very flaky. Mine didn't brown that well (maybe needs an egg wash?) but tasted fantastic nonetheless. I kept thinking "this would make a great pie crust!" Here's what I filled with: 1/2 lb. Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage, 1 lb. ground beef, 1 boiled yellow bell pepper choppped(left over from stuffed pepper recipe), 1/2 vidalia onion chopped, 2 cloves garlic minced, 1 can diced tomatoes w/lime and cilantro, 2 tsp cumin, 1 tsp coriander, salt and pepper to taste. I had twice as much filling as I needed, so I froze the rest. Hubby and son LOVED it. Yay! My first empanadas! Thank you!

Made the dessert recipe and it urned out good, the dough isn't exactly right but still tasty. easy too!

The dough was tasty very much like a pastry dough, However I don’t think that’s how an empanada crust is supposed to taste like. It was difficult to determine how much filling I could get in the dough, not much and trying to close them up without ripping the dough was a dilemma. As for the meat filling I used beef, potatoe, sazon, a little of adobo and some tomato sauce; it was great. I think I might try another recipe this one didn’t seem to meet my standards nor was it much like a traditional tasting empanada (as far as the crust is concerned). Too Bad :-(

I made these as desert empanadas for a "mexican themed" gathering I attended. They were quite good, and everyone liked them. Regarding the dough, I put the ingredients in my breadmaker and let it do the kneading for me and I just had to add a touch of flour. Turned out great. I got really lucky on the oil temp with no thermometer, and they fried up nicely.. flaky and a lot like a pastry dough, really. The only drawback was how difficult to judge how much filling I could get in the dough (not very much), and trying to seal these suckers up without ripping the dough was a bear! I think next time I'll make more dough and roll them out a little bit larger and thicker just to make it easier.

FANTASTIC!!!! My boyfriend is from South America and he was so excited when I made these for him. THANK YOU!!!

Very good!!! Especially the apple variety. You could substitute any meat for the steak and perhaps add more spices to taste. Go wild...be creative.

Yummy...

These were definitely not bad. We did need to add a bit more water than called for, but I thought the dough was excellent. However, it was more like a pot-pie or pie dough and not the typical empanada dough. But it was good and with a little ingenuity, you could fill these with tons of wonderful things!

I loved the empanadas but I like the empanadas that my mother makes better. You can also just have cheese for the filling. It tastes soo good that I just had to tell you all. Your Friend, Francisca A.

This was a ton of work for a disaster I ended up throwing away. Fault may have been partially mine - I don't work much with dough - but even pulling the filling out and trying to eat it separately didn't work. It was so bland! Didn't taste anything like any of the empanadas I've had. I only made the meat empanadas, but I won't be trying the fruit.

It is real easy if you find out that you can use PITAS'!!! And if you do you can just half them & put in the filling of your choise!!!

These rolled out really well, I thought it was to wet at first, but it was all ok after I started rolling with flour. Everyone at work liked them, we used them for a cooking project for the disabaled and if they can do it which they did I can get my kids to roll them too. GREAT RECIPE.

The dough was too dry, it definately required more than 6 tbsp of water than the receipe called for. The results were mediocre, I was dissapointed.

was a waste of my time and supplies. I followed the recipe to the "T" and it flopped!!

The mixture turned out really good. These would have been really good if they were fried and not baked though. They were good, but not excellent. The dough seemed to overpower the taste of the sauce for me. Everybody else loved them though!