Sentence examples similar to moon pastries from inspiring English sources

Much of the menu is Venezuelan snacking food, like the empanadas criollas, smooth, crisp half-moon pastries, plump with fillings like savory shredded beef or pureed chicken.

Looking like empanadas with their thick half-moon pastry shells, the appetizers were flaky and deliciously substantial.

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The half-moon of pastry was flaky, its filling of shredded meat tender.

Lighter small plates included curry puffs: six crisp, half-moon-shape pastry morsels filled with minced chicken, onion, tomato, potato and curry powder.

I had eaten empanadas, those crisp, flaky half-moons of pastry puffed with savory meat fillings, in other parts of Latin America and at home in New York.

For dessert, try the apple empanada -- a half moon of puff pastry enveloping Granny Smith apples, cinnamon and honey.

I preferred the next delicacy: mpanatigghi, a concoction of beef mince, almonds, cinnamon and chocolate folded into a half moon of sugar-dusted pastry.