Empanadas seem to be one of the "in" food items this year. Not exactly an expert, but I've put away a good amount of them recently to make a legitimate comparison - Lolinda (see post HERE), Venga (see post HERE), El Porteno Empanadas (see post HERE). Venga and El Porteno were both disappointing, but Lolinda's corn empanadas are the best of the bunch until now.
The combo gives you a choice of two empanadas and a side salad, but the salad is nothing special and I suggest skipping it and heading straight for the empanadas. El Sur has a variety of empanadas: Traditional, pollo saltado, parisien, verde, and championes. The traditional (beef) and pollo saltado (chicken) were wrapped in the common half moon shape.
The champinones (mushroom) and parisien (ham) were wrapped in a bun shape.
The wrapper was perfectly flaky with just the right about of butter. The traditional is made with hand cut beef, onions, pimenton, hard boiled egg, olive, and oregano. Although the beef was tender and juicy, I didn't find this empanada that exciting.
The insides of all the empanadas were juicy and flavorful, even the chicken one, which I find tends to be one of the drier meats in most dishes. The pollo saltado is made with sauteed chicken, onions, tomatoes, hard boiled egg, and olives.
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| Parisian empanadas from El Sur Truck |
The championes (mushroom) was one of two of my favorites during this meal. The Parisien (right) was the other. Usually I stay away from ham because it tends to be overly salty in most cases, but the chopped prosciutto and country ham just oozed flavor.
Address: El Sur
various locations
San Francisco, CA
Chomp worthy: parisian
champiñones (mushroom)
various locations
San Francisco, CA
Type: Argentinian
Popular chomps: parisian
traditional
pollo
champiñones (mushroom)
Popular chomps: parisian
traditional
pollo
champiñones (mushroom)
Chomp worthy: parisian
champiñones (mushroom)
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