FAMICOOK

Egg puffs

Name: Egg puffs
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6 People
Cuisine: Chinese (Hong Kong)
Ingredients: "3 eggs (hard boiled, peeled, quartered lengthwise)"; "2 teaspoons oil"; "1 medium onion (finely chopped)"; "1 tablespoon tomato paste"; "1/2 teaspoon red chili powder"; "1/2 teaspoon graham masala"; "1/3 teaspoon salt"; "1 puff pastry sheet (thawed)"

Puffs are an appetizer or tea time snack that sold very popular at stores and bakeries. They come in different varieties such as egg puffs, chicken puffs, or vegetarian puffs,…Egg puffs must be the most simply type to make among those. With the store bought puff pastry, this dish is even easier and quicker to make.

Ration

6 people

Prepare time

30 minute

Cooking time

20 minute

Ingredient

eggs (hard boiled, peeled, quartered lengthwise)

2 teaspoons

oil

medium onion (finely chopped)

1 tablespoon

tomato paste

1/2 teaspoon

red chili powder

1/2 teaspoon

graham masala

1/3 teaspoon

salt

puff pastry sheet (thawed)

How to do

Heat oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the onion to the pan and saute until translucent and lightly browned around the egg (about 4 – 5 minutes). Add tomato paste to the pan, cook for 1 minute then add salt, chili powder and graham masala with 1 – 2 tablespoon water. Cook the mixture for 2 – 3 minutes, stir it well. Remove the pan from heat and let the mixture cool down a little.

Preheat the oven to 190oC for 20 minutes. Prepare a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil.

Unfold the pastry sheet and cut along the fold, then cut each fold into 4 equal pieces (total 12 pieces).

For each pastry piece, add a teaspoon of onion mixture along the diagonal, place the quartered egg onto the mixture (the cut side down). Close the opposite ends of the pastry piece with a dab of water. Repeat to the rest of the pastry pieces and onion mixture.

Arrange the egg puffs onto the prepared baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes, until the puff pastry turns golden brown.

Remove the egg puffs from the oven, serve immediately with ketchup if desired.