Dough with something always makes for a good comfort food. In collaboration with Gen Eat, Play Clove plus with the little party we had at home last week, I thought a theme surrounding appetizers with dough would be perfect for this month’s Monthly Mystery Munchies!

Oh! There are so many, many things one can do with dough and technically, it should not be difficult to come up with one, right?! But you know what! I actually had a rather hard time focusing on one recipe and was going back and forth with a few “something” appetizers with dough to serve on Squirt’s birthday party.

After several debates that went only in my head, I decided on an appetizer that’s very typical of my Singaporean roots. It’s something that I grew up with; something that I missed a lot and something that I’d like to share with the world if you don’t already know this.

It’s the Potato Curry Puffs, otherwise known as “Epok-Epok Kentang”. Now, I have no idea what “epok-epok” actually means…but it is made of home-made dough filled with curried potatoes, a little bit of meat and a wedge of boiled egg if you like, and then deep-fried. Its savory, makes for a good snack and often served as sides when you visit someone’s home. It is also eaten for breakfast.

My mom used to make a lot of these when I was younger, making and selling it for extra income. The filling is easy to make, but there’s some back-breaking work involved to assemble each epok-epok piece by piece. So without further ado, here’s the recipe:

For now, bon appetite!

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1. Roll the dough flat. Cut the dough with a circular-shaped cutter for the outer crust

2. With about  ½ to 1 tbsp of filling, depending on how big the circular crust it, place the fillings and a wedge of boiled egg into the crust

3. Crimp the edges of the dough to cover the filling  – you can use a fork to shape the edges or flatten and flip it using your fingers

 

4. Repeat till all the dough and fillings are used up.

 

5. Deep fry them! You can also choose to keep them in the freezer and fry them up whenever you want. Caution: Don’t stack them up without using anything in between or they’ll get stuck together and you cannot separate them.  I use wax paper and sprinkle flour over them before putting the remaining into the freezer.

I didn’t stop at just the curry puffs for appetizers and attempted something cheesy, something lasagna-ish using wonton skins. It’s a little bit of a cheat as I don’t make the dough myself, but they are too good not to share and I’ll be sharing that for next week.