Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, curry puff (basic pastry). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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):
- Prepare Curry Puff Filling
- Get 2 cups peeled & finely diced potatoes
- Prepare 2 cups minced chicken
- Get 1 cup finely chopped brown/yellow onion
- Prepare 1 tbsp finely minced/chopped garlic
- Make ready 1 tbsp chili powder
- Get 1 tbsp meat curry powder (Baba's)
- Get 1 tsp KEEN'S curry powder (see pic - optional)
- Get 1 tbsp chicken seasoning powder
- Take to taste Salt
- Get to taste Pepper
- Prepare Peanut/vegetable oil (cooking)
- Prepare Curry Puff Skin
- Prepare 500 g plain flour
- Prepare 100 g rice flour
- Take 100 g tapioca flour
- Make ready 200 g margarine/butter
- Take 250-300 ml water
- Prepare Oil for frying
Instructions to make Curry Puff (Basic Pastry):
- Prepare fillings. 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. Never 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 only 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.
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