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Beef Curry Bread

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
If you've had Chinese scallion pancakes before, you'll have an idea about the texture of the bread in this dish. Although fried, just enough oil is used to allow the bread surface to form a crust.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Resting time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Course Snack
Cuisine Asian Fusion
Servings 10 flatbreads
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Ingredients
  

Beef curry filling

  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • ½ cup chopped onion
  • ½ teaspoon minced garlic
  • 300 grams ground beef
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon ground pepper
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder
  • 1 teaspoon chili flakes
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 cup coconut milk

Flatbread dough

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 pinch salt
  • ½ cup hot water not boiling
  • 1 tablespoon cooking oil

To cook the beef curry bread

  • cooking oil

Instructions
 

Cook the filling

  • In a frying pan, heat the cooking oil and saute the onion and garlic.
  • Add the beef, salt, pepper, curry powder and chili flakes. Cook, stirring, until the meat is no longer pink.
    Cooking ground beef curry in a white pan
  • Pour in the soy sauce and coconut milk.
    Adding seasonings and coconut milk to beef curry
  • Bring to the boil and cook, uncovered, until the meat has soaked up the liquids.
    Simmering beef curry in pan
  • Taste and add more salt, if needed.
  • Set the beef curry aside to cool.

Make the flatbread dough

  • Stir the flour and salt in a mixing bowl.
  • Drizzle the hot water over the flour and stir quickly.
    Mixing flour and warm water
  • Add a quarter cup of room temperature water and the oil, and stir until the dough comes together.
  • Cover the dough with cling film and leave to rest for 30 minutes.
  • Dump the dough on your work surface and knead until smooth.
    Kneading dough until smooth
  • Cover with cling film and rest for another ten minutes.
  • Cut the dough into ten portions.
    Dough cut into portions
  • Roll each portion into a ball.

Stuff the dough

  • Take a ball of dough and flatten with a rolling pin until about an eighth of an inch in thickness.
    Flattening dough with rolling pin
  • Place a tablespoon of the cooled filling at the center of the flattened dough.
    Filling flattened dough with beef curry
  • Gather the edges of the dough by pinching and pleating until the filling is completely sealed.
  • Place the stuffed dough, seam side down, on your work surface and flatten with your fingers.
    Flattening dough with beef curry filling
  • Flatten some more with a rolling pin (be careful not to allow the filling to pierce the dough) until less than half an in in thickness.
  • Repeat until all the dough has been stuffed and flattened.

Cook the beef curry bread

  • Lightly coat the bottom of a frying pan with oil and heat.
  • Keeping the temperature on medium-low, fry the stuffed dough (see notes after the recipe) until golden and crisp on the underside.
    Frying beef curry bread on both sides until golden and crisp on the surface
  • Flip to brown the opposite side.
  • Repeat until all the stuffed dough have been fried.

Notes

Cook in batches to avoid overcrowding and to make flipping easier. How many stuffed dough you can cook per batch depends on the size of your pan.
Add more oil before frying every batch.
Keyword Beef, Flatbread