Vegetable puffs

It a delicious snack for a lazy evening or a rainy day. My family loves having this. Its also super easy to make and just takes few mins.

Ingrdients:

Boiled potato - 3  medium size
Boiled peas - half can
Finely chopped onion - 2
green chilie - 1
Chili powder - 1 tsp
Fennel powder -1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Coriander leaves - small bunch
mint leaves - few (optional)
Puff pastry - store bought
Oil - 1tbsp
Spices - 1 small stick cinnamon and 2 clove


Add oil in a pan and add the spices, followed by the fennel powder and onion. Fry the onion till golden brown and add the mashed boiled potatoes, and peas. Add chillie powder, turmeric, and keep frying on medium heat for a few mins.You could adjust now the taste as you like by adding garam masala or more chillie powder.  Add salt, chopped mint and coriander leaves.

Vegetable puff mix

Cut a rectangle from the puff pastry of about 5 cm by 10 cm. Now put in some of the prepared mix in the middle of the pastry piece and fold it over as shown in picture. Press the ends together so that they dont open up when being cooked in over or air fryer.

filling up the pastry

corners pressed together and place in the basket of the air fryer over a bake paper.

Now place the vegetable puffs in to the air fryer. This time i put in a backing sheet in the basket as the pastry is sticky and I didnt want it to stick to the basket. Cook it for 8 mins at 180 C by flipping it once at about the 6th min. After 8 mins open the basket and pull of the backing paper and let the puffs fry in the basket for a min or two at 180 C to get the beautiful golden colour and at this point the puffs are already cooked and wouldn't stick anymore.

after 6 minutes of cooking

cooking 2 more minutes without the bake paper.

The whole thing can be don't in bake oven in about 15 mins at 180C

My Verdict: Here the air fryer doesn't reduce the oil as the pastry sheets are loaded with butter i believe, and we fry the mix in a pan with oil. What is better than an oven is it comes out evenly colored, both the sides cook the same way unlike in the bake oven one side is flat even if it is flipped. and is a few mins faster than bake oven.

Vathal with philips air fryer

Here is something very very simple which i tried out in the air fryer. As i mentioned in the first post about air fryer, i want to try the basic cooking init so i could use it more in our everyday cooking.

I coated the store bought vathal which half a teaspoon of oil in a bowl and tossed it into the air fryer and fried it for 2 mins at 160 C. Its comes out really puffed up and evenly colored. You really cant make out if it was fried in a conventional way or not.

It makes a lot of sense as its just 2 mins and way too little oil to get this one. In the traditional method, i normal fry a big batch and store it for a week or two and if the oil doesnt look bad i use it in the next days or sometime throw it away. 

My verdict: Its faster, cheaper on power and oil, tastes the same. So really cool.

Fried vathal