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Pastry Puff

Ingredients

Frozen pastry sheet or puff sheet ( from freezer section in grocery store)
3 potatoes,boiled, peeled and cut into small cubes
100 gms of green peas
2 onions
1/2 tsp of jeera, mustard seeds
1/4 tsp of urad dhal
1/4 tsp of turmeric, hing powder
about 3 curry leaves
1/2 tsp of red chilli powder
2 green chillies
1 tsp of coriander leaves
1/2 tsp of garam masala
3 tsp of all purpose flour
oil for seasoning
salt to taste

Method:

1. Take the pastry sheet from the freezer and allow it to cool for 30-40 minutes.
2. Heat oil in a frying pan, add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add urad dhal, jeera curry leaves,turmeric powder and hing powder. Now add the cut onions and fry it.
3. Once the onions become translucent add the prepared potatoes and cooked peas.
4. Mix garam masala and salt.cover and reduce the heat and allow it to cook for 8 minutes.Then garnish it with coriander leaves. This is the curry for the filling. Keep it aside.
5. Now the pastry sheet would have cooled down. Take it and put some all purpose flour on it.
6. With a rolling pin, flatten the sheet to required thin layer (don't make it very thin).
7. Cut the pastry sheet into 3 inch squares. Generally, you can make around 15 puffs from a pastry sheet.
8. Take one of the 3 inch squares and place the potato filling, fold it into a triangle or a rectangle and stick the edges tightly with water.
9. Do the same thing to rest of the squares.
10. Now take a baking tray and grease it with oil and put some flour on it. Arrange the puffs in the baking tray and bake on the middle rack of the oven for about 15 minutes. The puffs are done when the pastry sheet turn golden brown.if it doesn't turn golden brown keep it for another 3 or 4 minutes.
11. Serve this hot as a evening snack or as an appetizer.

    Note: This is delicious only when it is hot. When you want to make this for a dinner, do the steps from 1 - 9 and arrange it in the baking tray before itself. But don't bake it. Just 20 minutes before you start dinner your dinner keep the baking tray in the oven and serve this hot when it is done.