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The budget-friendly, fast casual restaurant, across multiple locations in Charlotte, serves everything from arepas and empanadas to tacos and even carne asada fries.—Timothy Depeugh, Charlotte Observer, 1 May 2025 Here are our favorites in cities around the Bay, bakeshops and restaurants that make their own empanadas from scratch.—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025 Now relatives in New York and Colombia are mourning the bright entrepreneurial woman who her sister said dreamed of becoming a beautician and sold tamales and empanadas in the neighborhood during summer months.—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025 The dish: All the empanadas boast brown and flaky crusts with a mild sweetness ($5.95 each).—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for empanada
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Etymology
American Spanish, from Spanish, feminine of empanado, past participle of empanar to bread, from em- (from Latin in-) + pan bread, from Latin panis — more at food
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