Good meat pie recipes

I get empanada wrappers in the frozen section at LaTienda in Baton Rouge. They are 5 1/2 round. I make a batch of meat mixture and store it in the fridge the night before. This is a basic recipe. The part where it says to sprinkle the meat mixture with 2 Tbs flour, substitute brown gravy dry mix.

Want to do something different? Franks Red Hot chicken empanadas. I omit the blue cheese dressing.

Thanks man. Have you ever baked them after making them as opposed to frying?

I’ve baked them. They are ok. Nowhere near as good as fried, but it can get the job done. I’ve also air fried frozen meat pies and that worked like baking.

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I had some last month that were homemade using homemade dough and only cooking was in oven and they were incredible.

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The OG way is a dough made with lard. I've always heard that lard makes the best pie crusts and pies are baked. I may need to seek out a recipe.