This will be second dish for Recipe Marathon. Its very handy when you have some store bought Puff Pastry. You can prepare a variety of dishes with it. I always loved the Egg Puffs, Veg Puffs, and Chicken Puffs which were sold in a bakery near our school in Elamakkara, Kerala. After a tiring day at school, sometimes I used to purposely skip the school bus so that I could stop over at this bakery and have these crunchy, munchy snacks along with cool Lemon juice,mmm...those were the days I miss now. I should say I miss my school days more than college days , maybe because school was closer to my home and after a tiring day, it was good to have good home-made food from my mother's kitchen than from the college hostel canteen.I was glad after I made the chicken puffs as they tasted too good and I could relish it and make it anytime I wanted to as its really simple to make. The only work needed is to make the filling in advance. I precooked the chicken in advance, but that's optional, as you can shred it and cook it later too.
Here is how I made it:
Ingredients:
Shredded cooked (skinless,boneless) chicken thighs - 3 chicken thighs
Coriander (cilantro) leaves- a small bunch
Onion chopped finely- 1 small onion
Ginger-garlic paste- 1 teaspoon
Tomato paste - 1 teaspoon
Asafoetida - 1/4 teaspoon
Garam masala- 1 teaspoon
Green chilli thinly sliced- 4 nos
Oil- 1 tablespoon
Salt - as per taste
For making Puffs:
Frozen Puff pastry sheet (I used Pepperidge Farm brand)
Method:To make the filling:
Keep a wok on the fire and add 1 tablespoon oil. When the oil is hot, add Asafoetida and green chillies and saute for 10-15 seconds. Then add onion, ginger garlic paste and chicken and saute until chicken pieces start browning, turn fire to medium and add garam masala and tomato paste and cook for another 5 minutes. Meanwhile allow the puff Pastry sheets to thaw according to Package instructions. Check for salt and let it cook another 2 minutes and then remove from fire.
To make puffs:
This you may cut it according to your choice. I cut it square shape and then tried my best to make all the puffs look the same shape, though I know they don't look much. Bake according to instructions on Package. It took around 17 minutes to make these puffs in the oven. They came out flaky and tasty :)
My other marathon buddies have been cooking up a feast, check their blogs:
1) DK
2) Siri
3) Srivalli
4) Ranji
5) PJ
6) Curry Leaf
7) Medha
8) Priya
9) Bhawna
10) Raaji
11) Ruchii
12) Arundathi
13) Kamala
14) Divya Kudua
