Curry Puff (Basic Pastry)
Curry Puff (Basic Pastry)

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, curry puff (basic pastry). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

A curry puff is a snack of Maritime Southeast Asian origin. It is a small pie consisting of curry with chicken and potatoes in a deep-fried or baked pastry shell. This is basic puff pastry making where you can try at home. I just used my hands instead of using machines to kneading the dough.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have curry puff (basic pastry) using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Curry Puff (Basic Pastry):
  1. Take A. Curry Puff Filling
  2. Get 2 cups peeled & finely diced potatoes
  3. Make ready 2 cups minced chicken
  4. Make ready 1 cup finely chopped brown/yellow onion
  5. Get 1 tbsp finely minced/chopped garlic
  6. Take 1 tbsp chili powder
  7. Get 1 tbsp meat curry powder (Baba's)
  8. Get 1 tsp KEEN'S curry powder (see pic - optional)
  9. Prepare 1 tbsp chicken seasoning powder
  10. Make ready to taste Salt
  11. Prepare to taste Pepper
  12. Prepare Peanut/vegetable oil (cooking)
  13. Prepare B. Curry Puff Skin
  14. Prepare 500 g plain flour
  15. Prepare 100 g rice flour
  16. Prepare 100 g tapioca flour
  17. Prepare 200 g margarine/butter
  18. Get 250-300 ml water
  19. Take C. ENOUGH OIL FOR DEEP FRYING

To make them, mix up a spicy curry filling, stuff the filling into hand-rolled dough, and fry the puffs until golden brown. If the potatoes pieces are too large they may rip through the pastry puff. Curry puffs are a popular snack that's sold everywhere in Sri Lanka. It's a more modern version of Sri Lankan patties or Indian samosas - using puff pastry The vegetarian curry puffs can be stored in the freezer and baked right before serving.

Instructions to make Curry Puff (Basic Pastry):
  1. A. Curry Puff Filling - Heat up wok over medium high heat and pour enough oil to cook curry puff filling. Sauté onion and garlic until fragrant. Add finely diced potato and minced chicken. Cook and stir over medium high heat. Add chilli & curry powder. Add the remaining ingredients and keep stirring. Taste and adjust seasoning accordingly. Simmer until lightly dry and potatoes are soft. Turn off the heat & leave aside to cool.
  2. B. Curry puff skin - Rubbing method. Rub plain flour, rice flour, tapioca flour & butter until well mixed & resemble bread crumbs. Then add water in few additions, stop adding water once you have pliable dough. Avoid over knead the pastry. Roll out dough into desired thickness (3mm thick) and then cut into round shape. Wrap up the filling & fold into the shape of curry puff. Pinch the edge of curry puff & twist it to seal (We use curry puff mould).
  3. Tip for step 2 👉🏻 Use food processor instead of the rubbing method. Just pulse the dry ingredients and butter for curry puff skin until it resembles bread crumbs. Then, add enough water to form a pliable dough.
  4. C. Cooking the Puff - Heat up oil for deep frying. (Always use enough oil for frying so you ll have crispy curry puffs). Deep fry until golden brown. We usually make these in big batch. We Half bake them & leave them to cool completely before refrigerate. Fry the next day or after.
  5. Note: Alternatively these puffs can be stored in the freezer and last for months. Just half bake them, always leave them to cool completely before storing, in the fridge or freezer. No thawing needed when frying the ones from the freezer.

Curry puffs are a popular snack that's sold everywhere in Sri Lanka. It's a more modern version of Sri Lankan patties or Indian samosas - using puff pastry The vegetarian curry puffs can be stored in the freezer and baked right before serving. With store-bought puff pastry and excellent spice blends. During that time, the Portuguese conquered Malaysia, which became a settlement of the Portuguese empire. The Portuguese introduced their version of the empanada, a type of pastry usually with beef fillings.

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