Simple Way to Prepare Quick Curry Puff (Basic Pastry)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, curry puff (basic pastry). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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. If baking, place the curry puffs on the prepared baking sheet and brush with the egg wash.

Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Curry Puff (Basic Pastry):

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

While you're welcome to sub in your favorite pie crust, we highly recommend the puff pastry. Traditionally, curry puff is dough filled with chunks of potatoes (and sometimes small pieces of chicken and chopped up boiled egg) cooked in the spicy and flavorful Malaysian or Nyonya curry, then deep fried. It truly is one of my most missed foods from Malaysia. Instead, I use short pastry or Dufour puff pastry and oven bake—or, even better, air fry!

Steps 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.

It truly is one of my most missed foods from Malaysia. Instead, I use short pastry or Dufour puff pastry and oven bake—or, even better, air fry! Fill your Thai curry puffs with any combination of meat and/or vegetables you like. I filled mine with ground chicken, potatoes, and peas cooked with onions, garlic, and spices. Curry Puff Curry Puff-a snack filled with curried potatoes commonly found in Malaysian and Singapore-has been a hit in my circle of food blogosphere recently.

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