Ham and leek empanadas from Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook (page 70) by Ina Garten

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  • amanda_ejt6ss on April 12, 2026

    Great

  • averythingcooks on January 22, 2021

    Wow - delicious! I set out to make a 1/2 recipe of these exactly as written but when I dug out an open package of prosciutto and found that I had exactly 2 oz, that was subbed for the ham. I made 6 (and used the extra puff pastry for some cheesey bread straws). We ate these beside a salad and again - these were awesome !

  • Skamper on December 16, 2020

    We liked these. Used just one pkg of puff pastry - 2 sheets for 8 empanadas - and scaled the rest of the ingredients proportionately, except I added more ham. used sour cream in place of creme fraiche and dried basil. Froze 4 for later. Update - these froze very well.

  • anya_sf on September 14, 2017

    I scaled down the recipe to 1 box puff pastry, or 8 empanadas, which served 4 for dinner. I used Trader Joe's puff pastry sheets, which are 10x12", so I rolled them out into 12" squares. I had to stretch the pastry to fit the filling, and they looked pretty ugly before baking, but they puffed up beautifully and only leaked a tiny bit. I froze the empanadas for a few days before baking, then baked straight from frozen; they only needed a couple of extra minutes in the oven. My family thought they were very good.

  • MVitek on January 28, 2015

    Used Oscar's Smokehouse pork loin.

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