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Curry puffs















Ingredients

Quantity(12)

Pastry:


Refined flour
115gms
Egg yolk
1
Fat
15gms
Thick coconut milk
40ml
Salt
to taste 
Fat or oil
to fry

Filling:


Prawns
500gms
Billings or green tomatoes
225gms
Small onions
30gms
Red chillies
5gms
Turmeric
a pinch
Curry leaves
a small spring
Lemon grass
a small spring
Powdered cloves and cinnamon
a pinch
Coconut milk (thick)
200ml
Salt
to taste 
Fat
15ml


Shell prawns. Remove intestines by slitting the back. Wash well in several lots of cold water. Drain and cut into small pieces. Slice billings or green tomatoes and onions. Grind red chillies.  Heat the fat. Fry a quarter or the slice onions, curry leaves and lemon grass. Add minced prawns, the sliced billings or tomatoes, the remainder of the onions, the ground red chillies, turmeric, powdered cinnamon and clove and salt. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes. Then add the coconut milk and boil until gravy is absorbed. Test for seasoning. Remove from fire. Take out the leaves and use as filling.

N. B.      A vegetable or meat filling can be used instead of the prawns filling.