Alternative healthy ingredients for sweet potatoe empanada?

Alternative healthy ingredients for sweet potatoe empanada?
Alright so I have been craving sweet potatoe empanadas forever.Im Mexican and I'm around delicious postres all the time. I'm living or at least trying to live a healthy lifestyle. Can you think of any ingrediants I can buy at the grocery store, to make sweet potatoe empanadas.I have been craving them for a long time,and it's so hard to resist

Happiest in the kitchen.
Indulging in a special occasion treat is Good for you.

Give your self special cheat days say once a week or once eveyr other week. This will help keep you form breakimng down all to gether and just eating a TON of junk food, and ruining all your greta eating habits.

Chef K.Ting
Here's a really simple recipe.

Ingredients:
Dough:
7 cups masa harina
4 1/2 cups warm water
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup cold water

Filling:
4 cups sweet potato, cooked and mashed
1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
4 tablespoons Agave Nectar
2 teaspoon cinnamon
Salt and pepper

For the dough:
In a bowl, combine the masa harina with the warm water and salt mix until soft dough forms. Let stand for 20 to 30 minutes. Stir in up to cold water, until the dough becomes soft but not sticky. Divide the dough into golf ball size pieces. Keep the dough covered as you work.

For the filling:
In a bowl, combine sweet potato, cilantro, agave nectar, cinnamon, salt and pepper. Set aside until ready to use.

To form empanadas:
Rub the palm of your hands with a little olive oil. While holding one of the dough balls in 1 hand, press the thumb of the other hand in the middle of the ball of dough to form an indentation, then turning the dough, begin to flatten it with your fingertips into a 4-inch concave disk resembling a small bowl.

In the center of the disk add 2 tablespoons of the sweet potato mixture. Bring the edges of the dough together over the filling and squeeze to form a seal. Repeat with the remaining dough and filling.

Lightly rub the empanadas with oil and place them on a heated, greased griddle over medium-high heat. Cook each side until golden brown in spots and slightly puffy, 3 to 4 minutes per side.

Serve hot,

Hope this helps,
Chef.KTing

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