Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, curry puff (basic pastry). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook curry puff (basic pastry) using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Curry Puff (Basic Pastry):
- Make ready A. Curry Puff Filling
- Make ready 2 cups peeled & finely diced potatoes
- Make ready 2 cups minced chicken
- Get 1 cup finely chopped brown/yellow onion
- Take 1 tbsp finely minced/chopped garlic
- Take 1 tbsp chili powder
- Get 1 tbsp meat curry powder (Baba's)
- Take 1 tsp KEEN'S curry powder (see pic - optional)
- Get 1 tbsp chicken seasoning powder
- Take to taste Salt
- Prepare to taste Pepper
- Get Peanut/vegetable oil (cooking)
- Take Note:
- Take If you don’t have minced chicken, you can use diced chicken breast. Dice it into small pieces
- Take B. Curry Puff Skin
- Take 500 g plain flour
- Get 100 g rice flour
- Prepare 100 g tapioca flour
- Get 200 g margarine/butter
- Make ready 250-300 ml water
- Make ready C. ENOUGH OIL FOR DEEP FRYING
- Get Notes:
- Make ready Half cook finely cubed potatoes
- Take Remove from boiling water before it becomes to tender
Instructions to make Curry Puff (Basic Pastry):
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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