Egg Puffs or Pattys

These are sooo very much a throw back to my childhood that the second I saw this recipe I had to try it. As far as I can tell, its mostly indians who have eaten these. I am going to look out for other recipes besides just egg and damn my stupid chicken allergy because chicken pattys were the shit.

The recipe is from this amazing blog again. I mostly followed the recipe w.r.t. the proportions, but unfortunately I got distracted chatting with mom and ended up overcooking the onions a tiny bit. Overall they were a bit spicy, but I thought they were delicious!!

Ingredients

• 1 large onion, diced 
• 1 tsp ground coriander 
• 1 tsp garam masala 
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin 
• 1/4 tsp hot chilli powder 
• 1/4 tsp pepper 
• 3 flakes garlic, grated (I just used ginger paste and garlic paste)
• 1 inch piece of ginger, grated 
• 1 green chilly 
• 2 tomato, diced 
• 3/4 - 1 tsp salt 
• 1 tbsp light olive oil 
• Small handful fresh coriander (didn't have any)
• 4 medium sheets store bought puff pastry 
• 2 eggs, hard boiled

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 450 F. 
2. Thaw out frozen pastry sheets.
3.  Hardboil, cool, peel and halve two eggs.
4.  In a pan, heat the oil, and add the diced onion. Fry on a medium to high heat for about 7 - 10 minutes, until a light gold colour and very soft. 
5. Add the ground coriander, garam masala, ground cumin, chilli powder and pepper and saute for about 2 minutes. 
6. Add the diced tomato and salt, and cook, stirring often for about 5 minutes, until the tomato is very squishy and the masala comes together in a gooey mass. 
7. Take off the heat. Leave to cool completely.  
8. The frozen puff pastry sheets work out well for one puff each. Place some masala, just off centre, then place an egg half on top of it. Add some more masala on top of the egg. Moisten all the edges using water, then fold over. Seal and place on a greased baking sheet, as above. Bake in the preheated oven for around 20 - 25 minutes, until the pastry is puffed and golden. Serve warm with a hot cup of chai. This recipe makes 4 puffs.