Trinidad and Tobago Aloo Pies

 

 

 

  

Ingredients:

The Filling :

4 medium potatoes
pinch of salt
pinch of black pepper
1/2 teaspoon of magarine butter
1/4 teaspoon geera
1/4 hot pepper (optional)

 

The Dough :

2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of yeast
1/2 -3/4 cup of water

 

The Cooking :

2 cups of vegetable oil for frying
Bowl
Rolling Pin
Fork / Knife
Bowl of water

Instructions :

The filling:

Peel potatoes, cut in each potato in 4 pieces and put in a pot to boil. Make sure the potatoes are completely submerged in the water. Take a knife or fork and stick the potatoes, if it can go through the potatoes easily stop boiling, if not, keep boiling until the fork/knife can penetrate the potatoes easily. Put the potatoes in a bowl and mash the pototoes as if you are making mash potatoes. Add a pinch of salt, pinch of black pepper , the geera, the butter and pepper (if you like spicy food) and mixed it in the mash potatoes.

The dough:

Put 2 cups of flour in a bowl and add salt,baking powder, yeast and mix with water until dough gets smoothe and firm. Let the dough soak for 15 minutes. Tear dough and make the amount of pies you want to make. You can get 8 pies from the ingredients so make 8 buns from the dough and put to soak for an additional 20 minutes. After this use a rolling pin and roll out the buns so that the dough is flat (do this for all 8 buns).

The cooking part:

Place some of the potato mash on one half of the roll out bun. (Average how much potato mash to use for each pie). Now fold the pie in half. Use a fork, dip in the the bowl of water, and press on the edges of the pie so it can stick. Do this for the 8 pies.

Put oil in and place pies (not all at once) in the oil so that it is completly submerged. Cook until you see the pie becoming brown (about 5 minutes). Place in a bowl with napkins to soak any excessive oil.

My Experience :

These pies are so tasty. There is also another version for beef pies which will be done later. I just love these pies. The only difficult part in making this is knowing how to kneed the dough properly. This will be acquired in time with practice.

Skill level enhanced:

Dough Kneeding

Source :

Picture : Woodfairy Recipe : The golden chef