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Curry Puff is a Malaysian snack filled with curried potatoes and chicken meat, wrapped with a crispy pastry shell. They are popular in both Malaysian and Singapore; they are deep-fried and commonly sold by street vendors or hawkers.
Authentic curry puffs call have a spiral shape, wrapped with a pastry shell that is made from scratch, consisting of oil dough and water dough.
This is a baked curry puff recipe, using a store-bought puff pastry shell, which is quick, easy and delicious nonetheless.
If you have time and would love to make curry puff from scratch, please check out my spiral curry puff recipe.
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Curry Puff
Ingredients
Filling:
- 5 tablespoons oil
- 1 medium red onion (finely chopped)
- 1/2 teaspoon kurma powder or chicken curry powder
- 2 teaspoons meat or chicken curry powder
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/2 cup finely diced chicken breast meat
- 2 large potatoes (boiled and finely diced)
- 1 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Pastry:
- 1 lb (500g) plain flour
- 5 oz (150g) margarine or shortening
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Make the filling first. Heat oil and fry onion gently until golden brown. Add the kurma powder, curry powder, chili, turmeric and fry gently. Add the chicken, potatoes, sugar, pepper, salt and cook for 5 minutes. Mix well and leave aside to cool.
- To make pastry, mix flour with margarine, water, salt, and knead well. Let it rest for 1/2 hour. Cut the dough into circles (3 in)(7cm) in diameter. Fold pastry over to make a half circle and crimp at the edges. Deep fry in hot oil until golden.
I get these often from a local Thai Cafe and they’re served with a vinegar sauce with cucumbers and cilantro. Do you have a recipe for this awesome dipping sauce?
Sorry but I am not sure.
The dipping sauce is primarily has sugar in it I find the sugar levels too dangerous for my health The flavour changes and has too much sweetness in it. Please be careful of eating such items. However, South Indian dips chutneys are much better in health for you and tastier on the palate.
Hi Bee,
Thank you for the curry puff recipe. I made it today for afternoon tea and came out well. The only changes I did was to double the chillie powder and eliminate the sugar as all of us here love a bit chilli hot puffs. Even our parish priest enjoyed. Thank you and God bless you
Amazing!😊👍
So sorry this phone of mine always corrects me. Was supposed to say freeze them before frying! Not trying
Thanking you
Debbie
Yes you can freeze before frying.
Hello Bee
My name is Debbie ?
I was wondering if a person could freeze the “puff” before trying them. I would like to keep some, – ready to fry when needed.
Many thanks
Debbie
This recipe is fantastic. Always a winner and the filling is just divine. Hard to resist eating the filling alone before folding them.
Thanks.
Can I use this pastry recipe but bake it instead of deep frying?
You can try!
I air fried mine. Came out good. But not as good if we had fried it.
Hello! This recipe’s amazing.
Could you please tell me how many Karipap do come out from this quantities? Thanks!
I want to try this recipe with whole wheat flour… will it work? Has anyone tried making it with whole wheat flour?
love it..but I added long bean along with the potatoes cos my daughter love the long bean. Thanks for the tips..
Great that it works out.
I meant to give 5 star ratings instead of 4. Amazing recipe! I used store-bought pastry instead of making it from scratch. They turned out really well!
Awesome thanks for trying my curry puff.
I prepared this dish with puff pastry dough crust and baked for a bakers club meet. It came out very well the filling was also amazing. Loved your recipe.