Fruit Empanadas

Tortillas can have a sweet side too when stuffed with cheese and sunny apricots or exotic tropical fruit.

Preparation time: 35 minutes Serves:10 cooking time: 50 minutes

Ingredients

oil, for deep-frying
icing sugar
225g plain flour
10ml baking powder
a pinch of salt
55g ghee
10 ripe apricots and stoned or 450 canned apricots, well drained
450g cream cheese

Method

1
For the tortillas, sift the flour, baking powedr and salt into a bowl.
2
Divide the dough into 10 evenly sized pieces
3
Heat some oil in a dep saucepan or deep fat fryer to a depth of at least 5cm
4
Cut the apricots into quarters and the cheese into 10 evenly sized pieces.
5
Fry one empanada at a time until golden on both sides.