Curry Puff.

Ingredients:

For pastry:
120 g wheat flour
1/4 tsp salt
60 g margerine
2-3 tsp ice water

For filling:
90 g minced meat
1 potato
1 onion
2 shallots
1 sprig curry leaves
1 tbsp curry powder
70 ml water/coconut milk
1/2 tsp salt to taste
2 tbsps oil


Method:

To make pastry:
1. Sift flour & salt into a mixing bowl. Cut & add fat into small oieces inthe flour.
2. Lift the flour to incorperate air by using finger tips. Rub fat into flour until mixture resembles bread crumbs. Do not over rub the fat because it will melt. Mix enough ice water into the flour until the mixture holds together.
3. Use fingertips to draw the dough together until its leaves the sides of the bowl clean. The amount of water used depends on the dryness of the flour.
4. Knead dough lightly on a pastry board sprinkled with a little flour to avoid the dough sticking to board. Roll out pastry using short & light movements. Do not turn pastry over.
5. Roll about 3 mm thick for pastry to be baked & a little thinner for pastry to be fried. Do not pull or strenght pastry. Cut into rounds. To avoid drying pastry,roll out half of the portion first & cove the other half with a damp clean cloth.

To make filling.
1. Dice potapo finely & soak in water.
2. Dice onion finely & slice shallots.
3. Shred curry leaves finely.
4. Blend curry powder into a paste with 1-2 tbsps of coconut milk.
5. Heat oil. Saute shallots. Add curry leaves & fry until you get nice aroma. Add curry paste & fry until you get nice aroma & oil appears.
6. Add meat & fry for a minute. Add onion & fry again. Add dice potatoes & salt. Mix well.
7. Add emaining coconut milk & simmer until meat & vegetables are cooked & mixture is moist.
8. Taste & dish out to cool.

To make curry puff;
1. Roll out & cut pastry into round. Spoon filling into each round of pastry.
2. Wet the edges with a little water. Fold over to cover filling.
3. Seal the edges by twisting the edges together with a fork.
4. Heat oil. Slide the curry puffs into the oil & deep fry until golden brown.
5. Serve whole still hot.