"Cream of Chicken Empanada Tappas are Flavourful and a Breath of Fresh Air as they are Veggie Fare."

Ingredients:

2 Pizza dough shells

1 jar (reg.) sun-dried tomatoes, fine-chopped

1 jar (reg.) sun-dried peppers, fine-chopped

2 c heavy cream (31% MF)

2-3 cubes chicken bullion [Knorr(R)]

2 handfuls Spinach

2 handfuls Kale

1/2 tsp garlic

1/2 tsp dill

2 tsp basel

1/2 tsp sage

1/2 tsp rosemary

3/4 salt

1/2 tsp blk pepper

1 1/2 tsp cornstarch

3 tblsp H2O

2 eggs + 1/2 c milk + 1/2 c H2O

Instructions:

Take the thawed and raw pizza dough and flatten on a stone counter top pre-floured on top and use rolling pin to even out and stretch the dough a little.

Take a wide-mouthed coffee cup as a die and cut out circles later to be fashioned in half crescents later. Take the rest of the odds and ends and roll again and cut out the last circles not to waste the pizza dough.

Then take a chopping board and fine-chop the preserves of tomatoes and peppers (red, preferably) and then also rough chop the spinach and the kale.

Sautee next the herbs and condiments in oil (canola, preferably) in a large stock pan and add in the veggies and add salt and pepper (to taste), finally, take the bullion and cream and dissolve to homegeneity. Dissolve the starch in diluent H2O and stir in thoroughly to thicken. Simmer gently over LO heat so as to spoon out later onto a thickened consistency on the pie shell dough.

With a spoon and fork, with all the ingredients spoon out into a half crescent each round pie or dough and turn the half onto the other and use the fork to secure the pie first adding a lipful of egg wash to make it more sticky to secure. Also, use a fine fork to poke pinhole pricks onto the surface to make the crescents breath.

Finally, in a cookie sheet larded previously lay out 2- 2 1/2 doz. empanadas and wash with the egg wash so it bakes golden brown at 175 deg C for 25 mins. at most. (Warning: do not burn any of the pie shell; well done is only golden brown).

Suggestions:

Serve with either an ice tea or ice tea cidre drink (if available) or ice tea sangria we will touch on this again in the future with mixing drinks with alcohol, fruit juices and cidre which as you know is part fermented to acetic acid and alcohol.