Vegetable Puffs Recipe
Vegetable Puffs Recipe
Cuisine: MaharashtrianVegetable Puffs Recipe: Vegetable Puffs are savory pastries filled with a mixture of spiced vegetables, often peas, carrots, and potatoes. They’re a popular snack in Maharashtra.
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups of Maida
4 tablespoons of Vanaspathy
Salt to taste
Water
Onions (finely chopped)
4 Medium Sized Potatoes
3 tablespoons of Peas
6 Beans
1 Carrot
1/2 teaspoon-Cumin seeds
1/4 teaspoon-Turmeric powder
1/2 teaspoon-Red chili powder
1/2 teaspoon-Garam masala powder
1-Lemon
1-sprig Cilantro (chopped)
Oil
Directions
- Grind into a Paste the following spices
- Garlic-2 flakes, Ginger-1/2 inch, Green chilies-2
- Sieve Maida & salt.
- Add cold water & knead to a smooth dough.
- Cover the dough with a wet cloth and keep it aside for 30 minutes.
- Keep some maida for dusting.
- Cook the potatoes, peas, beans & carrot.
- Mash the potatoes coarsely.
- Heat oil in a pan & add cumin seeds and ground ginger, garlic & chili paste.
- Fry for few minutes.
- Add chopped onions and fry until, brown.
- Then put the boiled vegetables, turmeric powder, red chili powder, garam masala powder & salt.
- Mix well and fry until done.
- Then squeeze lime juice & put cilantro. Remove from fire.
- To prepare Puffs
- Melt vanaspathy and whip it till creamy & keep it aside.
- Take the dough & knead once again until it becomes smooth & elastic.
- Roll the dough into a large thin rectangle on a flat surface by dusting with remaining maida.
- Apply vanaspathy to 2/3rd of the rectangle leaving 1/2 an inch space all around.
- Fold the empty portion (without vanaspathy) first
- And the other side (with vanaspathy) on top of it.
- Roll this lightly into a rectangle
- And repeat the same process twice using the remaining vanaspathy.
- Cut this into small rectangles and keep the stuffing at the center & fold across.
- Seal the edges with water.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Pre heat the oven at 300 C.
- Apply little water to a tray and arrange the puffs with enough space in between. v • Brush little milk on top of the puffs and bake for 45 minutes until golden brown.
- Garnish beautifully and serve hot.
