Chicken puff (Kerala style). With chicken cooked with spiced onion mixture, these puff pastry parcels are packed with a ton of flavor. Perfect as a snack or light meal!
Ingredients
for wrap
puff pastry sheet 1(makes 6-9)
egg white 1
for cooking chicken-
chicken (bone less) 200gm cooked & minced
pepper powder 1/2 tsp
salt
for filling-
onion 1 sliced medium sized
tomato 1 medium chopped
ginger garlic paste 1 1/2 tsp
coriander leaves chopped 4 sprigs
curry leaves
turmeric powder 1/3 tsp
chilly powder 1/2 tsp
coriander powder 1tsp
garam masala 1/2 tsp
pepper powder 1/2 tsp
chicken masala 1/2tsp
lemon juice 1/2 tsp
salt
oil 3tbsp
Method-
-Thaw the pastry sheet as per packet instructions.Cut along the folds and then cut again into 6 or 9 pieces which ever suits you to fold better.(discard any serrated edges)
-Cook the chicken with little pepper and salt for 7-10 minutes.Drain the stock or reserve for soups.Mince the cooked chicken in a food processor or blender.
-Prepare the filling by heating a pan with oil.Saute the sliced onion till lightly browned and the oil seeps out and then add ginger garlic paste,saute till raw smell disppears.
-Add the spices and mix on low flame.Add the chopped tomatoes,curry leaves,chopped coriander leaves.
-Add 1/3 cup of water and let it cook for sometime.Add the cooked chicken when the gravy thickens and then keep stirring till the water content dries up.Add in the chicken masala & lemon juice now and put off flame.
-Let the filling cool down.In the mean time,Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and then place filling (if you are using 6 rectangles place 2tsp filling,if using 9 rectangles place 1 1/2 tsp filling) on each rectangle,close them like a pouch ,rectangle,or triangular shape.(I made both rectangular & triangular ones,seal the sides with water properly)
-Apply or brush egg white on top of each of them.
-Place it in the oven and bake for 15 minutes.
-Remove from oven & cool on wire rack for 5 minutes before serving. From one puff pastry sheet, you would normally get 7 puffs.
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