{"id":1133,"date":"2008-02-21T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2008\/02\/21\/potato-curry-puffs-a-pictorial\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T03:11:04","slug":"potato-curry-puffs-a-pictorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2008\/02\/21\/potato-curry-puffs-a-pictorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Potato Curry Puffs ~ A Pictorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/potato\/currypuffscopyrightedimage7.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"curry puffs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Potato puffs also known as curry puffs are one of the most popular items sold at Indian bakeries. Flaky wrap and spicy filling, people love them a lot. They are prepared with puff pastry like dough, and the filling varies. Common is potato, then there is <a href=\"http:\/\/myinjimanga.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/aval-nanachathu-rice-flake-snack-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">egg<\/a> and also <a href=\"http:\/\/teczcape-kitch-corner.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/chicken-curry-puff.html\" target=\"_blank\">chicken<\/a> etc. Baked to golden perfection, hot from the oven, with coffee or tea, the chat and the laughs &#8211; I can see going back to college days.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to ready availability of good quality puff pastry, I can bake them at home easily. My version has all the flavor and eye appeal of bakery-style curry puffs, but they are smaller in size, hence more figure and finger friendly. <\/p>\n<p>For filling, I prepared potato curry with red potatoes. Boiled the potatoes to tender, and then peeled the skins, cut them to tiny pieces. Saut\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9ed them with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2006\/03\/13\/popu-tadka-tiragamata\/\" target=\"_blank\">tadka seasoning<\/a>, onions and peas. Added salt, chilli and turmeric to taste. The potato filling was ready. <\/p>\n<p>For wrapping, I used the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.egullet.org\/index.php?showtopic=106587&#038;st=0&#038;p=1460707&#038;#entry1460707\" target=\"_blank\">frozen puff pastry<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traderjoes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trader Joe&#8217;s<\/a>. There are four sheets in one pack, and they were stuck to each other. So I cut them to three strips. Rolled each one to a thin rectangle. Divided again into eight equal portions. Placed a tablespoon of potato curry in each portion, did a roll, and baked them at 350<code>&deg;<\/code>F for about 15 minutes to golden-brown. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the whole process in images.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/potato\/currypuffscopyrightedimage1.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPuff Pastry Strip and Potato Curry Filling<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/potato\/currypuffscopyrightedimage8.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPuff pastry strip rolled into a thin rectangle and divided into eight equal portions. Then wrapped around the potato curry filling. (I&#8217;ve refrigerated the  dough after rolling and after wrapping for about two minutes each time, to firm-up the dough and for sticky free results.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/potato\/currypuffscopyrightedimage3.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPotato puffs on a baking pan. (I placed the attached ends on the bottom side, so that they won\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t open up during baking.) <\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/potato\/currypuffscopyrightedimage4.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nBaked at 350<code>&deg;<\/code>F for about 15 minutes, Potato puffs ~ Hot out of the Oven <\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/potato\/currypuffscopyrightedimage5.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPotato Curry Puffs with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2006\/06\/20\/red-bell-pepper-chutney\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Pepper Chutney<\/a> ~ for <a href=\"http:\/\/culinarybazaar.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/yet-another-event-potato-feast.html\" target=\"_blank\">Potato Fe(a)st at DK&#8217;s<\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n<p><small>Notes:<br \/>\nPuff pastry doesn&#8217;t like heat. Refrigerate frequently and work with firm dough for sticky-free results. <\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>~ Indira<\/strong><!--9d5b634a213c5baacc07f0a3e468100d--><!--8972cd9213bea7a43c8c2388b55df7b2--><!--3aa8dd56b1eb7ffb2bea4ea822ecd5eb--><!--2d62101fca1c1ac0c5e6fb82321906fe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potato puffs also known as curry puffs are one of the most popular items sold at Indian bakeries. Flaky wrap and spicy filling, people love them a lot. They are prepared with puff pastry like dough, and the filling varies. Common is potato, then there is egg and also chicken etc. Baked to golden perfection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,4,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic-andhra","category-potato","category-wheat-flour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}