Ilocos empanada
Philippines · Southeast Asia
- Short description
- This street snack has a brittle orange shell and a hot filling that mixes vegetable crunch with egg and sausage.
- Ingredients
- Rice-flour wrapper tinted with annatto, green papaya, mung bean sprouts, egg, garlicky sausage, garlic, onion, salt, oil, and vinegar dipping sauce.
- Cultural note
- It is associated with night markets and roadside stalls where each pastry is filled, sealed, and fried to order.
- Common misconception
- It is not baked like many empanadas; the thin rice-flour shell is fried until glassy and crisp.
image credit
Ilocos Empanada in Batac, Ilocos Norte.jpg
- creator:
- Lokalpedia
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- modified:
- Copied from Wikimedia Commons and center-cropped/resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no other edits.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.