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Mini Veg Puff / Bakery Style Curry Puffs Bites - Best evening snack or puff pastry appetizer.
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Mini Veg Puffs | Curry Puff | Puffs Snack

Veg Puffs or Curry Puffs are bakery-style mini snack bites that are golden, crispy, and flaky with flavorful vegetarian filling inside. A perfect evening snack, appetizer, or finger food recipe using puff pastry sheets.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Total Time35 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Finger Food, Snack
Cuisine: Asian, Indian
Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian
Servings: 48 Mini Puffs
Calories: 69kcal
Author: Kushi

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 2 Pastry Sheets
  • 1 medium Onion , finely chopped
  • 3 cloves Garlic , finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon Ginger , chopped

Use any combination of veggies of your choice. Make sure you cut them into tiny pieces so that they cook faster and are easy to eat. I have used

  • 1 large Potato
  • 3 large Mushrooms
  • 1 medium Carrot
  • 1 small Bell pepper or capsicum
  • cup Cauliflower
  • ½ cup Green peas

Other Ingredients

  • 1 to 2 tablespoon Tomato sauce or Ketchup
  • 1 teaspoon Garam Masala powder or Curry powder
  • 2 tablespoon Cilantro or Coriander leaves, finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon Oil
  • 1 teaspoon Red chile powder adjust to taste or green chilies finely chopped
  • Salt , to taste

Instructions

  • Thaw the puff pastry sheet as per package instructions.
    2 Pastry Sheets
  • Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F or 200 degrees C. Place parchment paper on a baking tray and keep it aside.

Make the veggie filling for veg puff bites

  • Heat oil in a pan. Add onion, garlic, and ginger and saute till onion becomes translucent. (If you are adding green chilies, add it at this stage)
    1 medium Onion, 3 cloves Garlic, 1 tablespoon Oil, 1 tablespoon Ginger
  • Add all the veggies now - potatoes, mushrooms, carrots, capsicum, cauliflower, and frozen green peas. Make sure the veggies are cut into very small bites so they cook faster, plus they are easy to eat. Else it will come out of the puff. You can also put them in your chopper. 
    1 large Potato, 3 large Mushrooms, 1 medium Carrot, 1 small Bell pepper, ⅓ cup Cauliflower, ½ cup Green peas
  • Cover this with a lid and cook on medium flame till the veggies are cooked through. This may take approx 5 to 6 minutes.
  • Add the ketchup or sauce, cilantro, garam masala powder, salt, and red chile powder and saute it. See that this filling or stuffing is dry.
    1 to 2 tablespoon Tomato sauce, 1 teaspoon Garam Masala powder, 2 tablespoon Cilantro, Salt, 1 teaspoon Red chile powder
  • Switch off the flame and keep it aside.

Bakery-style vegetable puffs

  • Dust the working surface. Lightly roll the puff pastry sheet once.
  • Using a pizza cutter or knife, cut sheets into 24 rectangular pieces for bite-size puffs. That is three horizontal rows (width-wise) and 8 vertical columns (length-wise) from each sheet.
  • Spoon 1 to 2 teaspoons of filling on the center of each rectangle and fold it over the filling. Brush the edges of each rectangle with egg wash, water, milk, or cream, and use a fork crimp to seal the edges.
  • Place these on a baking tray.
  • Brush the top of each one of them with egg wash (or with milk or cream, or butter for the vegetarian version). This is done to give the baked puffs a shiny look. Brush vegan butter for vegan curry puffs.
  • Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or till it is golden and crispy.
  • Serve these mini veg puffs or puff bites when they are still warm, and enjoy. If not serving immediately, let them cool down and then store them in air-tight conatiner.

Curry Puff In Air Fryer

  • If using an air fryer, place the filled puff pastries on a single layer in the air fryer basket. Bake at 390 degrees F for 10 to 12 minutes. Flip halfway through.

Notes

  • Just before baking, I have done egg wash on all the mini bites to get that flaky and butter-shiny golden color. If you are doing a vegetarian version, you can use milk, cream, or butter to glaze it just before baking. For vegan puffs, use vegan butter. But please do brush for that beautiful golden color. 
  • Both red chile powder and green chilies can be used or completely excluded if you do it for kids. 
  • Some other veggies that go well include beetroot, beans, sweet corn, baby corn, or even paneer. 
  • Make sure the filling is dry, or else you will end up getting a soggy puff.
  • Instead of mini bites, you can make regular rectangle vegetable puffs like the one sold in a bakery by cutting each puff pastry sheet into nine rectangles.
  • If you have leftover samosa filling, you can even use that as a filling to make these curry puffs. Also, check out our puff pastry samosa recipe
  •  Pepperidge Farm puff pastry sheets are vegan. So if you brush it with vegan milk or butter at the end instead of egg, these mini veg puff pastry bites become vegan!

Serving suggestions

These veg puff pastry bites taste amazingly delicious with a cup of hot Indian tea (masala chai). Serve it warm with spicy green coriander mint chutney, or serve it with tomato ketchup for a sweet combo.

Nutrition

Calories: 69kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.001g | Sodium: 30mg | Potassium: 63mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 287IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 0.4mg