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

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, curry puff (basic pastry). It is one of my favorites food recipes. 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 enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

After it appeared on a popular show Brits have been signing up to use it. The best curry puffs are those made with flaky pastry. It is the pastry developed by the Chinese, who is also used to make other snacks such as egg tarts, and 'Siu Pao.' This type of pastry is much like the western puff pastry, except the dough is not separated by pure butter. Fold the puff pastry in half, press the edges together, and seal the edges in a folding and rolling motion.

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

To make the pastry, mix the flour with margarine/shortening, salt and baking powder in a food processor until it looks like breadcrumbs. Add in water and mix into a dough. Let the dough rest for half an hour. Roll the dough into a long piece and cut into ten small portions to make the pastry for each curry puff.

Instructions to make Curry Puff (Basic Pastry):
  1. 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. 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. 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.

Let the dough rest for half an hour. Roll the dough into a long piece and cut into ten small portions to make the pastry for each curry puff. 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 shape. Use a fork press the sides together to seal the edges of the puff pastry, and also the makes a nice pattern.

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