{"id":2158,"date":"2019-05-11T13:45:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T05:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2019-05-11T13:57:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T05:57:35","slug":"meal-kit-review-plateds-argentine-beef-empanadas-with-chimichurri-and-monterey-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2019\/05\/meal-kit-review-plateds-argentine-beef-empanadas-with-chimichurri-and-monterey-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Meal Kit Review: Plated’s Argentine Beef Empanadas with Chimichurri and Monterey Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rating 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am Argentine and have made empanadas<\/em><\/a> zillions of times, so I can tell you these are not traditional “Argentine beef empanadas.” Argentine empanadas don’t have jalape\u00f1o chili (I never even saw a jalape\u00f1o until I came to the US) or adobo seasoning. Most importantly, they are not eaten with chimichurri<\/em>, a sauce which is reserved for asado<\/a><\/em>. But my own empanada recipe<\/a> has been bastardized enough that I can’t complain about lack of authenticity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact is that these empanadas<\/a> were pretty tasty. I did like the meat filling quite a bit and appreciated the light spiciness of the adobo filling. What I didn’t like were the shells. They were tough and thick and too crispy. My daughter and husband complained as well. The problem is that Plated<\/a> sent empanada shells<\/a> meant to be fried, not baked. I understand the confusion, nowhere on the package it says these are frying shells – though the one recipe it features, calls for the empanadas to be fried. And looking at the ingredients, which include sugar, confirms their intended use.

A second complaint is that Plated calls for the empanadas to be brushed with olive oil. I tried it on the one in the front, and it was a failure. Much better is brushing them with either milk or an eggwash and sprinkling sugar on them.

Finally, the chimichurri wasn’t really chimichurri. For one, it didn’t have oregano, an essential ingredient. But the real issue is that it didn’t go with the empanadas at all. Really, empanadas don’t need a dip or anything like that – they just need the right kind of shells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the plus side, while the meal kit was supposed to make 8 empanadas, there were enough ingredients to make 10, so it was enough for 3 of us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I paid a tad over $13 for this kit, and I think it was well priced for that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rating 7\/10 I am Argentine and have made empanadas zillions of times, so I can tell you these are not traditional “Argentine beef empanadas.” Argentine empanadas don’t have jalape\u00f1o chili (I never even saw a jalape\u00f1o until I came to the US) or adobo seasoning. Most importantly, they are not eaten with chimichurri, a sauce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[458,389],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meal-kits","tag-empanadas","tag-plated","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}