Baked Sardine Puff - A craving satisfied

While driving home from work, I had a strong craving for sardine puff. Wells.... I am on a diet and having a sardine puff is going to throw my dieting off the scale. As such, I decided to make one myself.

I was amaze how simple this is to make.

Ingredients:

For the puff pastry:

• 150g All purpose Flour
• 50 gram Butter (cold)
• 60ml chilled Water
• 1/3 Teaspoon salt
• Egg wash - 1 Egg Yolk + 1 Tablespoon water

For the sardine filling 

• 1 Can of Ayam Brand Sardine (any brand should be fine just that I like this brand and we need the tomato sauce from the can)
• 8 small red onions or 1 large red onion
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
• 1 chili padi
• 1/2 Tablespoon Curry Powder
• l Calamansi lime juice

Directions:

For the puff pastry:

1. Cut the butter into Small chucks
2. Add the flour into the butler and use a knife to cut the butter into smaller pieces. (If you have food processor, that is even better, use it for this step.)
3. Use your fingers to further incorporate the butter into the flour. You should be able to see coarse crumbs
4. Quickly add the chilled water and fold the dough with a spatula. Don't overwork your dough
5. Place the puff pastry into the fridge for at least 15 minutes. 

For the filling (to do after making the puff pastry)

1. De-bone the sardine And smash the sardine
2. Sliced the onion
3. Add all the ingredients And mixed together

Putting everything together

1. Preheat oven to 200C
2. Cut the puff pastry into 25g each. Roll the puff pastry into flat round slightly bigger than the palm
3. Add in the sardine filling into the pastry and fold down the sides
4. Use a fork to poke some holes to allow the air to escape from the puff
5. Apply egg wash onto the surface of the puff
6. Baked the puffs for 20-25 min

Oven toasted Sardine Puff. Not too bad, just a bit toasted on top.. Equally yummy. 

One more photo..

Me having a bite while taking conference call.. Multitasking to the max.. Muahahaha