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Empanadas of Latin America Recipes to Try

empanadas for national empanada day

April 8 is here, and you know what that means: it’s National Empanada Day!  Historically, empanadas were brought from Spain before they spread throughout Latin America. These easy-to-make pastries were first mentioned in 1520 in a cookbook published in Catalan.  The word ‘empanada’ is derived from the Galician, Portuguese and Spanish verb ‘em pandar’, which […]