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Curry Puffs

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80 mins
fried
side dish

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by Tommi Budiman
Published on 16 July 2022
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A curry puff is a pastry skin filled with meat and vegetables, seasoned with curry spices. Singapore and Malaysia are two of the most common places to find curry puffs, but they originated in Southeast Asia. The flavours of India and China come together in this dish. This food is usually served as a snack. When you visit Malaysia or Singapore, you must try curry puff, and it is very easy to find as street food.

I made this recipe because when I was travelling to Singapore or Malaysia, curry puff became one of my favourite foods because the price was quite cheap and tasty. Besides that, curry puff can also be used as an afternoon dish accompanied by coffee or tea and can also be used as a lunch box for students.

I use margarine for skin dough ingredients, but you can replace it with butter. Margarine will make the skin texture more crunchy, whereas if you use butter, the skin will feel softer when it is fried.

For the filling, I use ground beef and potatoes. If you like chicken, you can also replace ground beef with chicken. You can also add vegetables and boiled eggs, which will definitely make it even better. I also added one teaspoon of chilli powder. If you like spicy, you can add more chilli powder.

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For the overall taste, the curry puff that I made was very delicious and very similar to the curry puff I ate in Malaysia while on vacation there. The taste is very savoury and balanced you should try this recipe.

What's more about this curry puff is; it's you can fry it up whenever you want to eat it because it will last longer if stored in the freezer.

So without further ado, let's try my curry puff recipe. You definitely will like it.

Additional Notes from Author:

  • The dough is sticky, make sure always sprinkle flour on the surface to avoid the dough sticking to the surface

Curry Puffs

by Tommi Budiman
servings
2 people
prep time
50 mins
dish type
Fried
cook time
30 mins
course
Side dish
total time
80 mins

ingredients

  • For the Curry Puff Skin Dough

    • 200 gramall purpose flour
    • 100 grammargarine
    • 0.5 tspsalt
    • 0.5 tspsugar
    • 40 mlcold water
    • 25 gramall purpose flour(to sprinkle the surface)
  • For the filling

    • 120 gramground beef
    • 300 grampotato
    • 130 gramonion
    • 2 pcsgarlic
    • 3 pcslime leaf
    • 1 tbspcurry powder
    • 1 tspchilli powder
    • 1 tspsalt
    • 1 tspsugar
    • 1 tbspketchup
    • 100 mlwater
    • 2 tbspcooking oil
    • 350 mlcooking oil(for frying the curry puff)

instructions

Making the dough

  1. Put the all-purpose flourl, margarine, salt and sugar in a bowl, mix it well.
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  2. Pour the cold water and knead the dough. Cover it with a plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes.
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Preparing the filling

  1. Cut dice the onion and chop the garlic.
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  2. Cut the potato into small cubes.
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  3. Pour the cooking oil, and heat the pan over medium heat. Stir fry the garlic, onions and lime leaves until fragrant.
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  4. Put ketchup, curry powder, and chilli powder. Mix it well.
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  5. Pour the water, put the ground beef, small cubes potato and add seasonings; salt and sugar.
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  6. Keep stirring it for around 5 minutes and set aside. The curry puff filling is ready
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Making the curry puff

  1. After the dough is ready, divide the dough into 10 portions.
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  2. Sprinkle flour on the surface. Roll the dough with a rolling pin to make it flat.
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  3. Take a scoop of the filling, and put it in the middle.
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  4. Fold it and then pinch the edges with your thumbs. Make ribbon-shaped folds. Do it repeatedly.
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  5. Pour the cooking oil (for frying), and heat the wok over medium heat. Fry the curry puff until golden colour for around 4 minutes.
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  6. Beef Curry Puff is ready to serve!

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