Jose Horrach, executive chef of Chica & The Don, feels your frustration with empanada dough. But he has a tip for ensuring ...

That's because "if your filling is wet, it tends to make the dough wet from the inside, and [it] doesn't crisp up properly ...

The homemade dough wrapper is easy to make and though ... fun appetizer. Empanadas can also work as an afternoon snack. Freeze them after they've been fried and when you're ready to serve, pop ...

Then comes the area where the unbleached wheat dough is made in an industrial-size mixer, followed by an empanada machine where women feed it with dough on one side and chicken filling on the other.