Beware: these crunchy puff pastries with fatty pork are addictive. Luckily, they’re also easy to make, so you can whip them up whenever the mood strikes.
Preparation time: 20 minutes (+ 20 minutes baking time)
Ingredients
- 5 Crêapan Puff Pastry Sheets (1 pack)
- 1 shallot, finely chopped
- 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped
- 3 centimetres ginger, finely chopped
- 2 spring onions, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons sunflower oil
- 250 grams minced pork
- 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon Shaoxing rice wine
- ½ teaspoon five-spice powder
- white pepper
- 1 egg, beaten
- 2 tablespoons. sesame seeds (white and / or black)
Kitchenware
- Pastry brush
Preparation
- Heat the sunflower oil in a frying pan. Fry the shallot for 2 minutes until translucent. Add the garlic, ginger and spring onions and fry for 1 minute more.
- Add the minced pork and fry for 5 minutes until golden brown.
- Add both soy sauces, the five-spice powder and white pepper and cook for a further 2 minutes until most of the liquid has evaporated. Put the meat in a bowl and let it cool slightly.
- Preheat the oven to 200 °C.
- Cut circles with a diameter of roughly 12 centimetres.
- Place 3 tablespoons of minced pork in the centre of each piece of puff pastry. Fold the dough in half in a triangle. Close the sides of the dough by pressing down with chopsticks or a fork.
- Place the pork puff pastries on a baking tray and brush with the egg.
- Sprinkle the pastries with the sesame seeds and bake for about 20 minutes until golden brown.
Feel free to double the recipe and keep the uncooked puffs in the freezer. You can bake them straight from the freezer, just give them an extra 5 minutes in the oven.