Quick Puff Pastry with Beef Filling

By á-25087

Adapted recipe by indugetscooking

Ingredients

• Pastry:
• 300 grams plain flour
• 100 +50 grams dalda (food shortening)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup + 3 tablespoons water
• 1 egg yolk +1 egg white
• 1 tablespoon milk
• Beef Filling:
• 200 grams cooked and minced beef
• salt to taste
• 3 tablespoons water
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 cup onion, chopped
• 1 tablespoon ginger, chopped
• 1 tablespoon green chili, chopped
• 1/4 cup capsicum, chopped
• 4 teaspoons chopped celery
• 1/2 cup cabbage, chopped
• 1/2 tablespoon plain flour
• 2 tablespoons milk

Preparation

Step 1

Sift together plain flour and salt. Rub in 50 grams dalda. Mix in water and knead into a dough. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes.

Sprinkle some flour on your work surface and roll out the dough into a rectangle about 3 - 5 mm thick. Brush on the remaining dalda on the surface of the dough.

Cut the dough into three rectangles, each portion bigger than the previous one. Roll the smallest rectangle along its length. Place the rolled dough at the bottom on the next rectangle and roll again, such that the first roll is enclosed in the second. Now place the roll at the bottom of the largest rectangle and roll again. Tuck the ends of the roll inside and press firmly. Refrigerate for two hours.

Roll out the dough into a 15x6 inch (approx) rectangle.

Spread out 1 1/2 cups of filling lengthwise over the dough. Fold over both edges of the rectangle (the long sides), brush some egg white over one edge and stick together gently. Bend the roll into a 'U' or horseshoe shape and place it on a greased baking dish.

Mix together milk and egg yolk. Brush it over the pastry. With a sharp knife, make cuts into the pastry spaced about 1" apart. You should have about 16 pieces this way. Brush some more of the milk and yolk mixture on the pastry.

Bake in a preheated oven at 200 C for about 40 minutes.

Beef Filling:

Mix together cooked beef, salt and water.

Heat oil in a pan and fry onion, ginger and green chili. Mix in beef, capsicum, cabbage and celery and adjust seasoning. Move beef mixture to the sides of the pan. Add flour and fry lightly. Next, the milk needs to be mixed in with the flour. Mix everything together and fry a little without drying out the beef.