Serves: 8
Total Calories: 322

1 tablespoon cooking vegetable oil
1 chopped onion
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 chopped tomatoes
2 pounds ground beef
3 tablespoons chopped parsley
WHITE SAUCE
2 teaspoons butter
2 teaspoons flour
2 cups milk
2 eggs, beaten
6 tablespoons bread crumbs

Heat a frying pan with the cooking oil, onion, garlic and cook until brown. Add the ground beef and cook until done. Add the tomatoes and cook until tender. Add the parsley. Add the white sauce.

WHITE SAUCE
Heat the frying pan. Melt butter and add four and stir until well blended. Add milk until well blended, remove from the heat and let cool. Add the meat mixture and then the well beaten eggs and bread crumbs. Mix very well. Should not be too stiff. Check to see if it needs more salt.

Let cool. Mixture should be cold and thick before putting into the little pastry shells.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 8
Total Calories: 322
Calories from Fat: 94

More Recipes from the A Taste of Brazil Cookbook:
Little Pies (Empadinhas)
Little Pies - Ground Beef Filling
Little Pies- Chicken Filling
Little Pies- Cheese Filling
Little Pies- Shrimp Filling
Mock Chicken Legs (Coxinha de galinha)
Cod Fish Croquette (Bolinho de bacalhau)
Cheese Croquette (Bolinho de queijo)
Meat Croquette (Croquete de carne cozida)
Meat Turnovers (Pastéis)
Fried Prawns (Camarão frito)
Melon with Ham (Melão com presunto)
Fresh Figs with Ham (Figos frescos com presunto)