Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade Curry Puff (Basic Pastry)

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Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Curry Puff (Basic Pastry) is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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

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

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

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.

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