Fried Pastel - Indonesian Pastry (Pastel Goreng)

I'm curious to try something different today. Pastel is one of my favorite indonesian pastries. It's basically just a crispy pie filled with chicken, carrot, and rice vermicelli filling. The only thing that I would do differently from this first attempt is to roll the dough more so it's thinner. The filling was good, though. I had some left overs of the filling and I gladly added it to my lunch menu. 

The recipe

For the filling:

1 cup ground chicken

1 cup square-chopped carrot

25 gr of rice vermicelli, soak in hot water

3 eggs, boiled and square-chopped

3 tsp minced garlic

6 onion cloves

2 tbsp soy sauce

1 tsp pepper

1 tsp sugar

2 tbsp butter

1/2 tsp salt or to taste

Add butter, garlic, and onion in medium heated wok until fragrant

Add chicken and carrot

Reduce the heat to low, add salt, soy sauce, pepper, sugar

Add rice vermicelli

For the dough:

2 Cups All-purpose flour

1 Egg

3 Tbsp butter, melted

1/2 tsp salt

1/3 cup water

Beat egg and melted butter

Add flour and water, slowly until it comes together

Roll the dough to the desired thickness, use a glass or bowl to make a circle

Cut the circles, fill half part of each circle with the filling, cover that part with the other part of the circles. Use the fork to make the pattern on the sides, as shown in below pictures

Fry in medium to high heat

Serve with chilli