Thai Curry Puffs Karipap 🥟🌶️

Description

Flaky Thai curry puffs with a golden crisp shell and a warm spiced chicken potato filling, sweet savory, fragrant, and bakery premium, one of the most searched Thai snacks for a reason. 🥔

Hook ✨

If you want a Thai dough recipe that feels truly special and restaurant worthy, karipap delivers real flaky layers and a rich curry filling that tastes like a Bangkok bakery. ✨

Ingredients

• Dough
• 🌾 360 g all purpose flour (3 cups / 12.7 oz)
• 🧂 4 g fine salt (¾ tsp / 0.14 oz)
• 🍬 15 g sugar (1 tbsp / 0.5 oz)
• 🧈 120 g cold butter, cubes (½ cup / 4.2 oz)
• 🥚 1 large egg (1)
• 🥛 120 ml cold water (½ cup / 4 fl oz)
• Filling
• 🛢️ 15 ml neutral oil (1 tbsp / 0.5 fl oz)
• 🧅 120 g onion, small dice (1 cup / 4.2 oz)
• 🧄 12 g garlic, minced (4 cloves / 0.4 oz)
• 🫚 10 g ginger, minced (1 tbsp / 0.35 oz)
• 🌶️ 45 g Thai red curry paste (3 tbsp / 1.6 oz)
• 🥩 350 g chicken thigh, small dice (12 oz)
• 🥔 350 g potato, 1 cm dice (2½ cups / 12 oz)
• 🥣 200 ml coconut milk (¾ cup / 6.8 fl oz)
• 🥣 15 ml fish sauce (1 tbsp / 0.5 fl oz)
• 🍯 10 ml sugar syrup or honey (2 tsp / 0.34 fl oz)
• 🌿 2 g ground turmeric, optional (1 tsp / 0.07 oz)
• 🌶️ 1 g black pepper (¼ tsp / 0.04 oz)
• To seal and bake
• 🥚 1 egg, beaten for egg wash (1)

Preparation

1. 1️⃣ Make the dough
2. Mix flour, salt, and sugar, cut in cold butter until sandy with pea size bits, then add egg and cold water and mix just until a dough forms. 🧈
3. 2️⃣ Chill
4. Wrap and chill 45 min so the dough bakes flaky and clean. 🧊
5. 3️⃣ Start the filling
6. Heat oil, cook onion 3 min until soft, then add garlic and ginger for 30 sec until fragrant. 🧄
7. 4️⃣ Bloom the curry
8. Add curry paste and optional turmeric, stir 45 sec until glossy and aromatic. 🌶️
9. 5️⃣ Cook chicken and potato
10. Add chicken, stir 2 min, add potato, then pour in coconut milk, fish sauce, syrup or honey, and pepper, simmer 12–14 min until potato is tender and the mixture is thick, not wet. 🥔
11. 6️⃣ Cool the filling
12. Spread on a plate and cool 20 min so it is easy to fold without steaming the dough. 🥟
13. 7️⃣ Shape
14. Roll dough to 3 mm, cut 10–12 cm circles (4–5 in), add 2 tbsp filling, fold into half moons, press edges, then crimp. ✨
15. 8️⃣ Bake
16. Heat oven to 200°C (392°F), brush with egg wash, bake 18–20 min until deep golden. 🔥
17. 9️⃣ Rest and serve
18. Rest 5 min so the filling sets, then serve warm. 🍽️

Total Time

⏱️ Prep: 30 min
🔥 Cook/Bake: 40 min
🛋️ Rest: 70 min
⏰ Total: 140 min

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