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Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook curry puff (basic pastry) using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Curry Puff (Basic Pastry):
- Take Curry Puff Filling
- Take 2 cups peeled & finely diced potatoes
- Prepare 2 cups minced chicken
- Take 1 cup finely chopped brown/yellow onion
- Get 1 tbsp finely minced/chopped garlic
- Prepare 1 tbsp chili powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp meat curry powder (Baba's)
- Prepare 1 tsp KEEN'S curry powder (see pic - optional)
- Take 1 tbsp chicken seasoning powder
- Take to taste Salt
- Get to taste Pepper
- Get Peanut/vegetable oil (cooking)
- Take Curry Puff Skin
- Make ready 500 g plain flour
- Take 100 g rice flour
- Make ready 100 g tapioca flour
- Make ready 200 g margarine/butter
- Take 250-300 ml water
- Get Oil for frying
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. 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.
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.
These curry puffs are fabulous hot or cold and perfect for taking to parties or picnics. Remove sheets of puff pastry out of the freezer and leave them on the kitchen counter to defrost for about ten minutes. Vegetable Puff Ingredients - Indian Curry Puff: Puff Pastry Sheets. Once, you have the 'Puff Pastry Sheets', then all you need the mixed vegetable filling and you're good to go. Just thaw and cut the sheets in desired size/shape, add the filling inside, wrap and.
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