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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Vegetable Puff(पफ्फ़)

I went one of our friend place and they made puff for snack. It brought all bitter sweet memories for me. After school and sometimes on weekends I used to go to bakery shop to eat this yummy puff. So I decided to make this one at home. My friend told me I can use Pepperidge Farm's pastry for making puff.

Ingredients:

(1). 3 boiled potatoes
(2). 2 cup peas and carrot
(3). 2 teaspoon red chili powder
(4). half teaspoon turmeric powder
(5). 1 teaspoon garam Marsala
(6). 2 teaspoon coriander powder
(7). 2 table spoon oil
(8). 2 green chillies cut into small pieces
(9). 1 teaspoon mustard seed
(10). 1 teaspoon  coriander seed
(11). 2 teaspoon sesame seed(Optional)
(12). Salt to taste
(13).few chopped coriander leaves( for garnishing)
(14). 1 teaspoon  Asafoetida
(15). Pepperidge farm puff pastry- 2 sheets

Recipe:-
Cut the potatoes into small pieces. Heat the oil in the non stick pan and add mustard seed  with coriander seed. Wait for them to crack. Now add Asafoetida, red chilly powder and garam Marsala. Immediately add chopped potatoes, peas and carrot. Let it cook for 5 minutes.Add turmeric powder, salt, green chillies, coriander powder and stir it occasionally. Cook for another 5 more minutes. Do not add water, if you think it is sticky add little bit more oil but not much. Now switch off the stove and add sesame seed and coriander leaves on top of this stuffing. Put this stuffing on the big plate so that gets cool faster.

Take the Pepperidge farm pastry form refrigerator and let it thaw per instruction. Now add vegetable stuffing in the sheet as whole or cut the sheet in small shape;fill the stuffing and close it carefully, use little water if needed to seal the pastry. Once you make the pastry sheet filled with stuffings put them in refrigerator for 5-7 minutes to cool down.

Preheat the oven for 400F and cook this pastries for 20 minutes or until they become slighly golden brown. Best advice check in between for few times and if you can turn them too.

Serve this hot vegetable puff with some coriander chutney. Or I love to eat this with shiracha sauce.

Vegetable Puff

Vegetable Puff

Tip:- You can serve this to your guest over coffee(hot/cold), with  milk-shake, smoothies or just with some masala chai. Like you can make just plain potatoes puff, or dried nut puff.
If you don't have all the spices to make stuffing at home it is okay, you can make use what you have, good to have atleast salt, turmeric powder or you can use curry powder and salt . Just heat oil in pan .Add curry powder then potaotes. After 5 minutes add peas, carrot and salt to taste. Instead of coriander leave you can also use parsley for garnishing. You can use sesame chilly oil to make this stuffing and can omit adding any kind of chilly powder.
  

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