dinner
Harvest Empanadas
Ingredients
1 cup Fully Cooked Original Pork Sausage Crumbles
2 pkgs. refrigerated pie crusts, softened as directed on pkg.
½ cup chopped apples
1 egg, beaten
¼ cup goat cheese crumbles
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup finely chopped and peeled sweet potato
¼ teaspoon salt
These tasty harvest empanadas spice up any lunch by combining Jimmy Dean® Original Sausage Crumbles with the flavors of sweet potato, apple cinnamon and goat cheese.
Make it with Fully Cooked Original Pork Sausage Crumbles
Directions
- Preheat oven of 400⁰F.
- Cook and stir olive oil and sweet potatoes over MEDIUM heat 3-5 minutes or until sweet potatoes start to brown.
- Stir in sausage crumbles and apples, cook and stir for 3-4 minutes or until hot and sweet potato is tender. Stir in cheese, cinnamon and salt.
- Remove pie crust from pouch. Unroll pie crust onto lightly floured surface. Roll pie crust to 18-inches in diameter. Cut out circles using a 2-½inch round cookie cutter. Place 1 heaping teaspoon sausage mixture in the center of each circle. Moisten edges of dough with water; fold dough over and press edges to seal. Use fork to seal edges.
- Place on cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining pie crusts and filling. Brush tops lightly with egg.
- Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden brown and hot in center.
