Colombian arepa de huevo

This a traditional food from the Colombian Atlantic Coast, it´s called also "Empanada de huevo"

Cost : US $.50


Time of preparation: 30 minutes
Number of portions: : 8


Ingredients:

1 pounded maize pound
8 eggs
2 onions
1 unit of mature tomato
Salt and pepper to the pleasure

Preparation:

• Put the maize in soaking the day previous.
• Take half and to cook in water during 20 minutes.
• Add other crude half and to let cool.
• Grind everything with a little salt and to knead.

-Meanwhile, beat the eggs with the onions and the tomato. To ripen with salt and pepper.

-Next, to take portions from maize and to form balls, to flatten them on banana or plastic leaves, until they are of ½ cm of thickness and 10 cm of diameter.

-Next, to fry them in the hot oil until they raise and they puff up. To retire them with a skimmer, to make a small groove and to fill up them with the egg mixture, onion and tomato.

-To close the groove with a little crude mass and being pressed and to put again in the oil during 2 minutes, until they are gilded.