Curry Puffs. Who doesn’t love them? Little parcels of deliciousness encased in golden flaky pastry.
Making your own is surprisingly simple, albiet a little fiddly, but definitely worth the effort. For my sweet potato curry puffs I used a Donna Hay recipe. Most curry puff recipes tend to include regular potatoes, but I loved the idea of Donna’s recipe using sweet potato, for something a little different. I love sweet potato, in fact I love all forms of potato (I blame my Irish heritage for that) but sweet potato in particular for it’s sweet deliciousness and also because it’s low GI.
To make your own sweet potato curry puffs you don’t necessarily have to go to the trouble of making your own Thai Green Curry Paste, as I did. I think it’s worth that extra effort though because it’s so much quicker than you would expect and you also have complete control over the flavours and more importantly the amount of chillis that go into it and therefore the overall heat.
I made my sweet potato curry puffs with frozen low fat puff pastry sheets (I’m not such a domestic Goddess that I go to the trouble of making my own puff pastry….yet) along with low fat coconut cream. You can of course use the full fat varieties, however I found that you honestly couldn’t tell that these were low fat.
Mini sweet potato curry puffs would be perfect as finger food at any party or you can make larger curry puffs, as I did, and serve them for lunch or dinner with a salad.
Sweet Potato Curry Puffs
Ingredients
- 600 g of sweet potato peeled and finely diced
- 3/4 cup of low fat coconut cream
- 2 tablespoons of chopped coriander cilantro
- 1 onion peeled and chopped
- 1 tablespoon of Thai Green Curry Paste
- 3 sheets of frozen low fat pastry thawed
- 1 tablespoon of peanut oil
- 1 egg beaten
Instructions
- In a frying pan over a medium heat add the peanut oil, onion and curry paste and cook for 1 minute.
- Add the sweet potato and coconut cream and cook, covered for 10 minutes. Add the coriander (cilantro) and stir through and allow to cool.
- Preheat the oven to 180 Celsius (350 Farenheit).
- Cut the pastry into rounds using a cutter or glass and place the mixture into the center of the rounds. Press the edges together to seal and glaze with the beaten egg.
- Cook the curry puffs for 20 minutes or until golden.
Outstanding! I’ve been looking for a vegan tasty treat and this is perfect. Thanks.
How much green curry paste in the sweet potato puffs recipe?
Hi Irene,
It’s 1 tablespoon of the Thai Green curry page. There was a formatting error in the recipe which I’ve fixed now. Thanks for alerting me 😀
Nice blog..love your turkish pide…wanna try on of these days. Thanks for sharing
Jennifer, I absolutely love your photos and your recipes. I cannot wait to get started making some of them. They are making my transition into a vegetarian life both easy and delicious! Thank you so much!
Hi Nicole. Thank you so much for your kind words 😀
I know how difficult it can be at first to make the transition to being vegetarian, but from the looks of your blog your doing a great job. Feel free to email me if you have any questions though 😀 As for the curry puffs, we really enjoyed these, and hopefully you will to. I can also recommend the roasted pumpkin and harissa tarts, lemon spaghetti, carrot fritters, and my all time favourite – mushroom wellington. 😀
Love, love, love this! I am a sucker for sweet potatoes and pastry – together, this would make for the perfect lunch right about now!
Thanks Liren 😀
Great way to use green curry paste. Love this recipe!
Thanks Sneh 😀
These look delicious!
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Good to know that the low fat version tastes the same as a high fat one! Any chance to save on some calories but not on taste is good! 🙂
I love sweet potatoes too, so I'm sure I'd enjoy these. Thanks for sharing. : )
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These look awesome and totally worth the effort! I love sweet potato and don't use it enough. I will have to try your recipe!
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I adore sweet potatoes! Those curry puffs must have tasted wonderfully delicious.
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Oooh….I love this. I am a sweet potato lover. I can eat that for lunch 😀 Thanks very much for sharing.
Thanks for the sharing this wonderful recipe with us.Sweet Potato puff is nice and it has a amazing test ,I likes the every dish of the potato .
Interest curry puffs with Thai green curry.
Seriously – you are so fast!!! Teach me!!!! How do you get it all done so quickly?!
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I guess the old saying that practice makes perfect applies here rfr! Practice also increases speed.
These look so perfect! I am hopelessly addicted to sweet potato – I will have to try this recipe 🙂
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I'm addicted to sweet potato too. Give it a try and let me know what you think. 🙂
This is yummy and your recipe is so easy too.Thanks for sharing.
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