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

Hey everyone, it is 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. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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. Although the origins of this snack are uncertain.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have curry puff (basic pastry) using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

Chinese Curry Beef Puffs are often traditionally made with a very short pastry dough brushed generously with egg wash to give it that Chinese bakery case sheen. 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. Curry puffs are one of the many favourite 'kuih' in Southeast Asia.

Steps 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.

The Portuguese introduced their version of the empanada, a type of pastry usually with beef fillings. 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 as potatoes The crispy pastry is the reason to make these curry puffs. Many who have tasted it rave that it is one of the best they'd come across. Curry puffs are a popular snack that's sold everywhere in Sri Lanka.

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