There are various versions of a savoury filling wrapped around with a crumbly/ flakey pastry through the world. The indians have their samosas and kachoris.In the middle east there are the Sambousek/ Fateyers/rokaka. korea the Mandu, South america the empanda..Even Russia has something called a vareniki and the Uyghur Muslims the Samsa-which they bake in a clay oven like the tandoor..So all foods are related or sometimes similar. The lines started to get blurred with all the invasions and migrations..
When i lived in the West indies they would make fried potato pastry called “Aloo(potato) Pie”
This gently oil poached bread ( fried) is perfect for clogging up those arteries which aren’t already buggered . Best served with a chick peas curry which will mean another blog post.
These are very similar to the west Indian doubles but eaten fresh and hot and not wrapped to be like a sandwich.
We can make these with multiple kind of flour mixes, but for today’s one I used wholemeal spelt, plain flour and whole wheat flour .
Flour- 250g
Spelt flour- 100 g
Whole meal flour- 100 g
Baking powder- 5 g /1 tsp
Warm water- 240-260 g depends– we want a semi soft dough
Yeast-4 g
Salt- 8 g
Sugar- 8 g
Oil-15 g
- Mix flours yeast baking powder sugar and add in the water to make the dough. Add in salt/oil and leave to rest.
- When resting keep dough covered to prevent it from skinning
- After 15-20 mins you will see the dough start to rise .
- Scale into about 50 g balls and rest for -5-10 mins again.
- roll out about 1/2 cm thick .Leave for 2-3 mins
- Gently poach(not really)/fry in hot oil. These should be puffed up and browned after frying.
- Eat one or many depending on how badly you want to clog up those arteries.
- Typically served with a chickpeas curry,but you could do other stuff with it..
stories of foods from the world over, laced with a hint of sarcasm and some black humour, its not for everyone, but then never was meant to be..
