Rukmini Iyer’s Quick And Easy Recipe For Spiced Paneer Puffs With Quick-pickled Carrot Raita | Quick And Easy

These moreish small pastries are arsenic beautiful for a snack arsenic they are for dinner, and they return conscionable minutes to put together. I for illustration to capable squares of pastry and fold them into small triangular puffs, but if you for illustration much of a Cornish pasty look (*food writer cancelled for suggesting paneer is an due pasty filling!*), by each intends stamp retired circles, fold into half-moons and crimp nan edges.

Spiced paneer puffs pinch quick-pickled carrot raita

Prep 20 min
Cook 25 min
Serves 3-4

225g artifact paneer
2 outpouring onions, trimmed
20g mint leaves
Zest of 1 lime, plus 15ml lime juice
1 greenish chilli, deseeded if you wish
1 heaped tsp flaky oversea salt
1 tbsp self-raising flour
320g rotation puff pastry
1 egg, beaten

For nan quick-pickled carrot raita
½ tsp fennel seeds
½ tsp coriander seeds, lightly crushed
30ml white-wine vinegar
½ tsp flaky oversea salt, crumbled
2 outpouring onions, trimmed and finely chopped
300g carrots, peeled, quartered lengthways and finely sliced
150g earthy yoghurt

Heat nan oven to 220C (200C fan)/425F/gas 7. Tip nan paneer, outpouring onions, mint leaves, lime zest and juice, greenish chilli and brackish into a nutrient processor, and blitz, scraping down nan sides occasionally, until nan operation resembles very good couscous. Add nan flour, and blitz again until nan operation has surgery down moreover much finely. Taste and set nan brackish arsenic needed.

Unroll nan pastry and trim it into 12 adjacent squares. Divide nan paneer substance evenly betwixt nan pastry squares (just complete a heaped tablespoonful connected each quadrate should do it), past bring up 2 other ends of nan pastry to make a triangle. Squeeze mildly each astir nan edges to seal, past transportation to a lined baking sheet. Repeat until each nan pastry triangles are sealed (you tin beryllium them upright, for illustration small dumplings, aliases connected their sides for illustration triangles). Brush nan pastries pinch nan beaten egg, past cook for 25 minutes, until aureate brownish and cooked through.

Meanwhile, toast nan fennel and coriander seeds successful a mini barren frying pan, past put them successful a ample vessel pinch nan vinegar and salt. Mix well, past operation successful nan outpouring onions and carrots. Leave to pickle until you’re fresh to eat.

Just earlier serving, operation nan yoghurt done nan quick-pickled carrots, and service alongside nan basking pastry puffs.