Missing, Craving...and Arrrggghhh Karipap (Curry Puff)

A few days ago.......

Missing my DH soo much and leads to a severe craving! I'm sooo wanted some Karipap (Curry Puff) right now, this instance!! It was cold and raining outside...."what about some crepe instead?"said my DH on skype "Crepe over a karipap?? No no way!" after a few seconds.. "Well, not today, at least!" ;-).

Ok, Thinking that I have all the ingredients...lets get going, I told myself, what so hard about karipap making, right? Wrong! Wrong! I'm sooo wrong!!!!

potato & carrot cubes

The stuffing first:

1 tbs ginger paste
1 tbsp garlic paste
1 tbsp coriander powder
1 tsp garam masala
250 g minch beef
3 large potato - peeled, cut into small cubes
1 large carrot - peeled, cut into small cubes (optional)
1 large onion - chopped
1 tbsp of chopped spring onion
1 tbsp of chopped chinese flat leaves parsely
Salt & peper to taste
2 tbsp Vegetable oil

-Heat oil, sauteed ginger & garlic paste till brown, then add beef followed by coriander and garam masala powder.
-Add the cubes potato and carrot, add some water, cook till the potatoes and carrots are tender and till fairly dry. Season with Salt and pepper.
-Throw in chopped herbs and onion. Off the fire. Cooled.

the minch beef bubbling away

The decided to try out, a new recipe for the skin/pastry: I dont remember which site I got this recipe from but here it goes :

flour & margerine

2 cup of all purpose flour
2 heaped tbsp of margerine
1/2 tsp salt
Enough cold icy water.

- Put flour in a mixing bowl add salt, stir to combine
- Add in margerine, rub to resembles a fine breadcrumbs.
-Add water, just enough till it all clump and not sticky.
-Knead a little. Ready to use..


Now....to assemble those......there come the problems.... after my pastry is ready to be rolled I realized that I dont have a rolling pin and I dont even have the karipap mould! oh dear! Oh dear! oh dear! Okay, Relax... I could find some bottle or something to roll...haaah Malaysia Boleh!!!! thank to the ketchup bottle.

the mighty ketchup bottle that saved my day

And as for the absent mould...okay! okay! such a lousy excuse...i know I should have try to do the seams by my bare hands a long long time ago...hmmmm after a few attemps ... I opt for these shapes:

But sadly, the problem just not end there.... When all the horrendous looking puff are ready to be fried, I realise i have less than a quarter of 1 liter bottle of vegetables oil !!! Its needs to be deep fried!! Arrrgghh! Karipap...why are you doing this to me???????????

Hmmm , i just pour the oil in the tiniest sauce pan i have ! And fry that karipap away!!

the end result...horrendous looking curry puff

thanks to this happy customer!

And I should say, the new pastry that i tried is kinda nice.... and a after a few karipap later.... I think I'm ready for a crepe again...!

P/S: My dear DH, I froze some for you! Dont worry!