Aloo Masala Puff -Or Veg Puff (Indian Bakery Style)

Crisp and flaky on the outside, buttery and delicious from within, homemade veg puff is a puff pastry with an Indian-spiced filling, finished with a sprinkle of flavorful herbs. It’s great as an appetizer, tea-time snack, or a light lunch.

These delicious vegetable puffs are a snitch to make using store-bought puff pastry and are ready in a little over 30 minutes.

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

MAKE BAKERY-STYLE VEGETABLE PUFFS AT HOME

Raise your hands if a veg puff makes you nostalgic! It takes me back to my college days when I relished these puffs with masala chai and a lot of chatting with my friends. Indian Cafe style Veg puffs are one of my favorite.

I would say that this recipe is better and more flavorful than the ones you get in an Indian bakery. It is the best because you can control the ingredients going into the filling, adjust the seasoning and the spice to your taste. You can even make these puffs in your preferred size and shape.

How Simple And Easy to Make?

This recipe is super easy to put up for an after-school snack, evening munching, or even when you are planning to have guests at home. The tedious part of making pastry dough is outsourced to store-bought ones. You just have to make the filling which comes together in a few minutes. All you have to do is stuff the filling in the sheets and bake!

You May like some more Snack or Appetizers:

• Cheese Corn Potato Balls
• Veg Manchurian
• Aloo Tikki

ABOUT THE VEGGIE FILLING

• You do not need fancy ingredients to make this vegetarian filling. Everything is basic but when it comes together it is beyond delicious.
• This Indian savory puff is filled with boiled mashed potatoes, finely chopped onions, peppers, green chilies, ginger, garlic, green peas, and basic Indian spices.
• The addition of fresh mint adds a lot of freshness to the puff. It is totally optional, skip it if unavailable. Use a fistful of cilantro instead.

After moving to US, I often craved for these puffs. The ones available in stores and Indian bakeries here were never good enough and so I started making them at home. Puff pastry sheets are so readily available in the grocery stores here and so I always make these at home when the cravings kicks in.

Why We Love The Veg Puff

• they are easy to make with store bought puff pastry.
• can easily be made vegan with one simple swap.
• makes a delicious tea time snack.
• can also be packed in lunch-boxes.

Ingredients

The best part about this recipe is that you need only few basic ingredients to put this all together.

• Puff Pastry: This can easily be found in any grocery store in Freeze section. I like to use Puff Pastries. It always saves time and came out so perfect too.
• Veggies: I have used boiled potatoes and peas here. But you can use your choice of veggies.
• Spices: To give the flavor, I have used garam masala, turmeric, roasted cumin, coriander powder and fennel powder, Chili powder.

Step By Step Direction

• Start by boiling potatoes and steaming peas. Once they get ready, peel the potatoes and cut it into small cubes. I always steam my peas into pot or microwave. You can boil or cook it as per your preference.
• In a Pan add oil. Once the oil heat, add cumin seeds, coarse coriander and fennel seed powder. Saute it for couple of minutes. Now add chopped ginger chili. Cook it until the ginger changed the color.
• Now add chopped onions and cook it until they soften and become translucent.
• Then add boiled and chopped potatoes along with boiled peas.
• Give a good mix. Add all spices like turmeric, red chili powder, garam masala, salt to taste and pinch of sugar.
• Now give a good mix and slightly mash the veggies with the help of spatula. Sprinkle little water so all veggies can be well coated with spices. The filling is ready. Keep it aside.
• Start preheating oven at 400 degree.
• Thaw the frozen puff pastry according to instructions on the package. Mine needed to be at room temperature for 30 minutes before it could be used in the recipe. Unroll the thawed puff pastry. Here you can cut as per your choice of shape you are going to make.
• I cut in 4 parts from one puff pastry. Now place 1 tbsp of filling into this and give a little cut to shape to the the part of pastry. slowly cover this to edges to edges. Use water to seal the edges. By use of fork, seal this and your puff is ready to go in oven. Repeat the process with other pastries.
• When your oven is ready brush the puff with butter and put it in oven and bake it for 15 to 20 minutes. check in between.
• Once your puffs get done, take them out from oven.
• Transfer them into serving plate and serve this with mint cilantro chutney and Ketchup. With side of kadak Masala chai.

Air Fryer Instructions

You can also air fry these puffs. In fact, I think these turn out even better in the air fryer.

To air fry, follow the same steps and then bake the puffs at 390 F degrees for around 9 minutes. The puff gets darker and crispier in the air fryer compared to traditional oven.

Storing & Re-heating

You can store unbaked puffs in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. Simply bake in the oven straight from the fridge when you want to eat it.

You can also freeze unbaked puffs for 2 months. To bake, just put in the oven and bake straight away. Increase the baking time by 2 to 3 minutes if you are baking frozen puffs.

To re-heat, air fryer works best. Re-heat at 300 F for 10 minutes. Or you can also re-heat in the oven 350 F degrees for 15 minutes.

Tips & Notes

• You can use more vegetables here like green pepper, green beans, beetroot.
• If it’s warm where you live, make the puffs and then place them in the refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes and then bake them. Cold temperature will ensure that the pastry puffs up nicely in the oven.
• Make sure your filling has cooled down to room temperature before you use it in the pastry.
• You can also make these puffs triangular in the shape, just fold accordingly.
• The number of puffs this recipe makes will depend on the size of puff you make. It will make 4-6 puffs depending on how or small your puffs are.

Aloo Masala Puff – (Indian Bakery Style)

5 from 1 vote

Recipe by Shruti Naik Course: SnacksCuisine: Indian

Servings

5

Puffs

Prep time

30

minutes

Cooking time

20

minutes

Calories

300

kcal

Total time

50

minutes

Crisp and flaky on the outside, buttery and delicious from within, Curry Puff is a savory puff pastry with an Indian-spiced filling, finished with a sprinkle of flavorful herbs. It’s great as an appetizer, tea-time snack, or a light lunch.

Ingredients

• 2 Medium Size Potatoes

• 1/3 cup green peas

• 1/4 cup chopped onions

• 2 tbsp oil

• 1 tbsp cumin, coriander and fennel seed powder

• 1 tbsp garam masala

• 1 tsp red chili powder

• 1/2 tsp turmeric

• 2 tsp salt

• pinch sugar

• lemon juice

• Chopped cilantro

• 1 tbsp chopped ginger chili

• 2 puff pastries

• 2 tbsp butter

Directions

• Start by boiling potatoes and steaming peas. Once they get ready, peel the potatoes and cut it into small cubes. I always steam my peas into pot or microwave. You can boil or cook it as per your preference.
• In a Pan add oil. Once the oil heat, add cumin seeds, coarse coriander and fennel seed powder. Saute it for couple of minutes. Now add chopped ginger chili. Cook it until the ginger changed the color.
• Now add chopped onions and cook it until they soften and become translucent.
• Then add boiled and chopped potatoes along with boiled peas.
• Give a good mix. Add all spices like turmeric, red chili powder, garam masala, salt to taste and pinch of sugar.
• Now give a good mix and slightly mash the veggies with the help of spatula. Sprinkle little water so all veggies can be well coated with spices. The filling is ready. Keep it aside.
• Start preheating oven at 400 degree.
• Thaw the frozen puff pastry according to instructions on the package. Mine needed to be at room temperature for 30 minutes before it could be used in the recipe. Unroll the thawed puff pastry. Here you can cut as per your choice of shape you are going to make.
• cut in 4 parts from one puff pastry. Now place 1 tbsp of filling into this and give a little cut to shape to the the part of pastry. slowly cover this to edges to edges. Use water to seal the edges. By use of fork, seal this and your puff is ready to go in oven. Repeat the process with other pastries.
• When your oven is ready brush the puff with butter and put it in oven and bake it for 15 to 20 minutes. check in between.
• Once your puffs get done, take them out from oven.
• Transfer them into serving plate and serve this with mint cilantro chutney and Ketchup. With side of kadak Masala chai.

Recipe Video

Notes

• You can use more vegetables here like green pepper, green beans, beetroot.
• If it’s warm where you live, make the puffs and then place them in the refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes and then bake them. Cold temperature will ensure that the pastry puffs up nicely in t.
• Make sure your filling has cooled down to room temperature before you use it in the pastry.
• You can also make these puffs triangular in the shape, just fold accordingly.
• The number of puffs this recipe makes will depend on the size of puff you make. It will make 4-6 puffs depending on how or small your puffs are.