PROEJECT & IDEAS > digital recipes > empanadas
STANDARDS ADDRESSED:
NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
  • Standard 1.2:  Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics
  • Standard 1.3:  Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
  • Standard 3.1:  Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language
  • Standard 3.2:  Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures
  • Standard 4.2:  Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
NATIONAL ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE STANDARDS
  • Goal 2 Standard 2: Students will use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter information in spoken and written form.
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS (NETS) FOR STUDENTS
  • Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
  • Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.
  • Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
  • Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

  • Connection for Internet (research)
  • Digital Camera
  • Presentation Software (ex. PowerPoint)
    or
  • Wordprocessor or Publishing program (ex. Microsoft Word / Publisher)
    or
  • Blank CD and burner
  • Web editor and host
DESCRIPTION:
Ask students to research a recipe in the target language and culture on the Internet. Students will choose one recipe and take digital pictures while making it. Students will write step by step instructions. All the recipes can be compiled and published as an electronic recipe book on the web, as a PowerPoint Presentation, in a newspaper format, or to be burned on a CD.
You can make the dough for empanadas if you would like, but as a timesaver, the round discs are available at most grocery stores such as Publix.

Empanadas can be filled with many different things. The traditional empanada is filled with meat.

  • ground beef
  • cheese and ham
  • corn
  • cheese and onions
  • spinach and cheese
  • chicken

Filling for meat:

  1. Put 1/2 cup of oil in a pan
  2. Sautee 4 medium size cut onions
  3. Add a pound of ground beef
  4. Brown beef and add salt, pepper and "comino" (also available at the hispanic spice section at the grocery store)
  5. Let cool
  6. Add cut up hard boiled eggs

Filling for corn:

  1. Sautee one medium size onion
  2. Melt 1/2 butter stick
  3. Add flour and milk to make a smooth white sauce
  4. Add one can of corn
  5. Add previously sauteed onions
  6. Add salt, pepper and a little bit of sugar to your taste
  7. Let it cool

Preparation:

  1. Take empanada dough
  2. Place one spoonful of filling in center of disc
  3. Rub a few drops of water on the rim of HALF the disc circle
  4. Close the circle to form half -a - moon shape
  5. Close empanada with fingers


  6. Brush empanadas with milk OR beaten egg


  7. lace empanadas into oven at 400 Fahrenheit for about 20 minutes. You might want to broil them for a minute to get nice color.
  8. Enjoy!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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