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  • Peruvian Beef Empanadas: Lima-Style Meat Pies

    Peruvian Beef Empanadas: Lima-Style Meat Pies

    Peruvian empanadas are savory Meat Pies filled with beef, onion, ají amarillo, garlic, cumin and sometimes hard-boiled egg, olives or raisins. They are usually baked in the oven and served with icing sugar and a squeeze of lime. We discover our “dumpling” of the country with Peruvian empanadas! As in all former Spanish colonies, empanadas…

  • Shirini Latifeh: Iranian pastries with cream

    Shirini Latifeh: Iranian pastries with cream

    Shirini latifeh are small Iranian pastries made of two very light cookies, filled with whipped cream flavored with vanilla, rose water and decorated with pistachios. Their rounded shape may reminds you of a macaroon, but their texture is very different: it is more between ladyfingers, the airy sponge cake and the small filled cake. The…