Empanadas are Mexican-style pastries filled with meat, vegetables, or even dessert. This family-sized version is known as an empanada gallega. It's served in wedges like a stuffed pizza. Pork Carnitas would also be a delicious filling. Leftovers are best reheated in the oven.
'My family loves Mexican food, so I came up with this simple satisfying casserole that gets its spark from salsa,' comments Kim Osburn of Ligonier, Indiana. 'We like it so much that there are rarely leftovers.'
Bell peppers, green onions, and your favorite salsa combine with beef and egg noodles for a stove-top casserole. Garnish with shredded cheese and chopped tomatoes.
Prepared salsa and chili seasoning mix speed preparation of this easy version of chili. Serve over cornbread or with crackers. Add jalapeno peppers for more heat.
Cornish game hens stuffed with a vegetable mixture, then roasted. A Cornish game hen recipe that I found and tweaked a bit for the taste and size of our small family, but it would be very easy to adjust it to fit your needs. It goes well with oven-roasted potatoes.
A slow cooker casserole version of the beloved Russian verenike or vereniki (little dough pockets stuffed with cheese), this is made in the slow cooker with cottage cheese, lasagna noodles, and ham to give you the flavor without the work of filling all the pastries.
This Black Bean Lasagna Rolls recipe contains part-skim ricotta cheese, no-salt-added black beans, lasagna noodles, monterey jack cheese, salsa and more.
