Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, curry puff (basic pastry). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
A curry puff is a snack of Malayan origin. It is a small pie consisting of curry with chicken and potatoes in a deep-fried or baked pastry shell. The curry is quite thick to prevent it from oozing out of the snack. Curry puffs are a tasty Indian snack commonly sold at street stands.
Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have curry puff (basic pastry) using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Curry Puff (Basic Pastry):
- Get Curry Puff Filling
- Make ready 2 cups peeled & finely diced potatoes
- Get 2 cups minced chicken
- Make ready 1 cup finely chopped brown/yellow onion
- Prepare 1 tbsp finely minced/chopped garlic
- Take 1 tbsp chili powder
- Take 1 tbsp meat curry powder (Baba's)
- Take 1 tsp KEEN'S curry powder (see pic - optional)
- Get 1 tbsp chicken seasoning powder
- Get to taste Salt
- Get to taste Pepper
- Prepare Peanut/vegetable oil (cooking)
- Take Curry Puff Skin
- Take 500 g plain flour
- Take 100 g rice flour
- Make ready 100 g tapioca flour
- Get 200 g margarine/butter
- Make ready 250-300 ml water
- Take Oil for frying
It's widely available, easy to prep, and its perfectly flaky crispness absorbs the curry flavor of the filling in a delightful way. Chinese Curry Beef Puffs are often traditionally made with a very short pastry dough brushed generously with egg wash to give it that Chinese bakery case sheen. Put some filling onto one half of the square. Brush edges with a little water and fold over pastry to make a rectangle or triangle Arrange the curry puffs on a serving platter and serve with dipping sauce.
Instructions to make Curry Puff (Basic Pastry):
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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. 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.
Put some filling onto one half of the square. Brush edges with a little water and fold over pastry to make a rectangle or triangle Arrange the curry puffs on a serving platter and serve with dipping sauce. Curry puffs are one of the many favourite 'kuih' in Southeast Asia. Also known as karipap, the crispy pastry is stuffed with a variety of savoury fillings such Curry puff may look like another puff pastry or savoury pie but it is the unofficial king of kuih for many in Malaysia, Singapore and around the region. Vegetable Puff Ingredients - Indian Curry Puff: Puff Pastry Sheets.
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