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A baked pastry consisting of egg custard in a cookie crust or puff crust. Empanada: Spain: Sweet or savory A stuffed pastry, baked or fried and stuffed with a variety of fillings, including meat, cheese, vegetables or fruit. Popular throughout Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Central America, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Caribbean.
“The biggest difference (between a casserole and a hotdish) is that it has to be a complete meal. It has a vegetable, and meat, and a starch and some kind of creamy substance to pull it all ...
This is a list of notable casserole dishes. A casserole, probably from the archaic French word casse meaning a small saucepan, [1] is a large, deep dish used both in the oven and as a serving vessel. The word is also used for the food cooked and served in such a vessel, with the cookware itself called a casserole dish or casserole pan.
In baking, a flaky pastry (also known as a "quick puff pastry" or "blitz puff pastry") [35] is a light, flaky, unleavened pastry, similar to a puff pastry. The main difference is that in a flaky pastry, large lumps of shortening (approximately 1-in./2½ cm. across), are mixed into the dough, as opposed to a large rectangle of shortening with a ...
In the United States, a casserole or hot dish is typically a baked food with three main components: pieces of meat (such as chicken or ground meat) or fish (such as tuna) or other protein (such as beans or tofu), various chopped or canned vegetables (such as green beans or peas), and a starchy binder (such as flour, potato, rice or pasta); sometimes, there is also a crunchy or cheesy topping.
When baked, the heat of the oven turns the water in the chilled butter to steam, pushing the layers of dough apart to (quite literally) create a puffed pastry that’s buttery, lofty, light and flaky.
In Britain, morning goods are pastries, scones, and other products which are baked and sold fresh each day. In Croatia, the term slastičarnica is used to denote a patisserie that makes cakes and sweet pastries. The word pekarnica is used for a bakery that bakes savory products such as bread as well as savory and sweet rolls.
A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savoury, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard. Tartlet refers to a miniature tart; an example would be egg tarts.