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Empanadas de Mariscos Baja

A traditional Baja California dish — Empanadas de Mariscos Baja are golden, hand-held turnovers stuffed with shrimp and fish in a light tomato sauce with olives, a nod to the Spanish roots of Baja cooking.

⏱ 35 minPrep time
🔥 25 minCook time
🍽 6Servings
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Empanadas de Mariscos Baja - seafood empanadas

A traditional Baja California dish — Empanadas de Mariscos Baja are golden, hand-held turnovers stuffed with shrimp and fish in a light tomato sauce with olives, a nod to the Spanish roots of Baja cooking. They are the perfect beach-town snack: crisp pastry, juicy filling, and a squeeze of lime. Bakers up and down the peninsula turn them out fresh every morning.

Step by stepInstructions

  1. Make the dough: pulse the flour and salt with the butter until crumbly, add the egg and enough ice water to bring it together, wrap, and chill for thirty minutes.
  2. Cook the onion in the olive oil until soft, add the garlic and tomatoes, and simmer until thick, about five minutes.
  3. Add the shrimp and fish and cook just until the seafood firms, about two minutes; season, stir in the olives, and cool completely.
  4. Roll the dough thin and cut rounds about five inches across.
  5. Spoon the filling onto each round, brush the edges with beaten egg, fold, and crimp with a fork.
  6. Brush the empanadas with egg and bake at four hundred degrees until deep golden, about twenty minutes.
  7. Cool slightly and serve warm with lime wedges or salsa.

💡 Chef tips & storage

Chill the filling completely — hot filling makes the pastry greasy and hard to seal. For a shortcut, use store-bought pie dough or empanada discs.

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Recipe details

Prep35 min
Cook25 min
Servings6
CategoryAppetizer
PublishedAugust 17, 2026
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