colombian stew beef

ingredients

salt

oil

2 teasp of cumin

3 tomatoes

onions

2 cups of water

steak

2 beef cubes

Method

1. Put the steak in a oil pan. Put the temperature to mdium high and cook on both sides of the steak.

2. Then start cutting up some tomatoes,onions,and cumin into the frying pan. leave it in there until it is nice and tender.

3. Starting adding steak,water,and salt.

4. Leave them in the frying pan until they are well cook and soft.

5. Start pulling the steak apart with a knife.

6. Once the meal is cook, you can now serve this with rice.

colombian empanadas

ingredients

boiled potatoes

cut up cow beef, freshly boiled with water

olive oil

cornmeal

lemon

water

salt

1 tbsp of cumin

1 tbsp of cilantro

Method

1. First cut 6 or 8 potatoes, and put them all into a pot of boiling water. Add some salt to it,wait until the potatoes are nice, and soft so you can then take them out.Once they are done put them into a separate pot so you can start smashing them into smaller pieces.

2. The beef has to be put into a boiling water so you can start getting rid of the fat, and to make it easier to cut it into smaller pieces. Keep doing the process until the beef is very well cook. You can now add the beef to the smash potatoes. Start mixing them together this process is very hard put rewarding once you have completed it. Then add some of the water from the beef to give it that tasty flavour.

3. Start making a big arepa dough by using a lot of water, and cornmeal by mixing it until it is very soft.Once the doughing process is done add a lot of the water from the beef pot to give it that glowing gold color,and flavour.

4.Once all the hard parts are done you can now make the empanadas.

5. First by taking a piece of the yellow arepa dough and make a ball. then turn that ball into a circle flat pancake then start adding the mix beef,and potatoes ingredients.

6. Don't put so much just put a good amount so you can actually close it. By closing it you would need to turn the flat dough arepa into a taco then close it. Start pressing the top part of it by making a bending process to make it nice and tightly close once.

7. For this step you would need a lot of oil fill it up in a pan or pot. Put the temperature to high so the oil can be nice ,and hot. Once the oil is really hot you can insert the empanada into the oil.

8. Leave it in the pot once it is nice and crispy then take it out emmidiately.Put the empanada on top of a plate with towls to absorbed all the oil off of it.

9. you are ready to eat the empanada enjoy.