CHRISTY HILL TAHOE CITY FARMERS MARKET

CHRISTY HILL TAHOE CITY FARMERS MARKET

Join us Every Other Week

6/26, 7/10, 7/24, 8/7, 8/21

at the Tahoe City Farmers Market where Executive Chef Luis Vallin prepares delicious dishes using the market’s fresh and seasonal weekly ingredients by local farmers

Shh… he’s going to give you the recipe, too!

This Week’s Farm Fresh Recipe

Summer Vegetable Empanadas 

Ingredients: 

  • 200 Gr   Corn Flour 

  • 100 gr  cold water 

  • 1 tsp baking powder 

  • 25 gr  All purpose flour 

 

  • 1 ea Yellow corn 

  • 2 ea Zuchinni 

  • 4 ea Chilaca peppers 

  • 200 gr  Appenzeller Cheese 

  • 2 ea Big Heirloom tomato 

  • 1 ea garlic clove 

  • ½ bunch cilantro 

  • 2 ea Lime  

  • 1 ea small onion 

 

  • Yellow corn 

  • Summer squash 

  • Chilaca Peppers (or some other kind of peppers from Foods Market available., I saw some last time I was there. 

  • Appenzeller cheese  ( from dedricks cheese) 

  • Heirloom tomato salsa fresca    

 

Directions: 

  • Roast Chilaca Peppers , seeded and peeled.    Mix  cheese with yellow corn, julienne peppers and small diced summer squash. Season with salt to taste. Reserve the mixture to fill up empanadas. 

  • Mix Corn Flour with water, salt and flour and baking powder until dough is homogeneous.   

  • Press dough with a tortilla presser and fill it with summer vegetables mixture. 

  • Fry at 350F until is  golden brown.