2 Yummy Samosa Recipes - Indian Vegetarian Cooking

Samosa is a stuffed pastry / dumpling usually served as a savory snack and is a popular street food in India (Chaat). It is found all over the world in many different variations but the basic dish consists of a stuffed meat or vegetables in a triangular shaped dough which is either baked or fried in oil. Indian Samosas are almost always deep-fried.

North Indian Samosas usually have a filling of mashed potatoes and are served with Chutneys. The South Indian varieties are filled with a mixture of vegetables and Chutneys are usually not part of the standard menu when serving them.

Two Indian Samosa Recipes are here:

Mixed Vegetable Samosa
Sweet Samosa

A Green Chutney Recipe is also included as an accompaniment for the Samosas.

Samosa Tip: To get crispy samosa outer cover, add some rice flour to the dough. You can also add a pinch of soda to the cooking oil to add to the crispiness.

1.Vegetable Samosas
Ingredients:

For the pastry:

All Purpose Flour (Maida) - 2 Cups
Ghee or Hot Oil 3-4 Teaspoons
Salt to taste
Cooking Soda - teaspoon

For the stuffing:

Potatoes (big) - 3 (about quarter Kilograms)
Green Chillies, Chopped - 4
Garlic - 4 flakes
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Onion (chopped finely) - 1
Fresh Peas (shelled) - 1 cup
Garam Masala - 1 teaspoon
Cumin power - 1 teaspoon
Coriander powder - 1 teaspoon
Mint leaves - a handful chopped fine
Amchoor (Mango) Powder

For Frying:

Vegetable Oil - half a liter

For the seasoning:

Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon
Oil - 1 tablespoon

How to Make / Method:

Preparing the dough

Sieve the flour, salt and cooking soda together and put it in a bowl.
Add heated ghee or oil to this and mix well.
Add water and prepare it into a soft dough.

Preparing the Masala stuffing

Boil the potatoes, peel them and cut them into small pieces
Grind the garlic and ginger together into a paste
Heat a tablespoon of oil in a Kadai and season cumin seeds in it.
Add the ginger and garlic paste into the oil and stir for a while.
Add the chopped chillies, finely chopped onion and peas; fry till these are cooked and soft.
Next add the chopped mint leaves, cumin powder, coriander powder and salt into this and saut it for about 2 minutes
Remove the pan from the fire
Finally add the mashed potatoes and mix well with the other masalas. This Masala should be dry and water content in it will not result in a proper stuffing.

Preparing the Samosa

From the dough that you first prepared, divide it into small and equal parts
Prepare small balls and roll them into thin chapathis.
Heat a Tawa and put the chapathi tossing both sides.
Make several chapathis from the dough balls
Cut each of these chapattis into half.
Take one half and fold it into a conical shape. Place the potato and masala stuffing inside this (the cone).
Seal the edges of the chapatti cone with maida dipped in little water.
Prepare Samosas from the all the chapattis that are prepared.
Heat oil in a deep frying pan.
Fry the Samosas until they turn golden brown.
When they are crisp and brown, remove from oil using a perforated spoon.
Use a tissue filled dish to absorb excess oil from the Samosas.
Serve hot with chutney or tomato ketchup.

2. Sweet Samosa
For the sugar syrup

Sugar - 2 cups
Water - 2cups

For the filling

Condensed milk - 1/2 tin
Grated/scraped coconut - 2 cups

For frying

Ghee & oil - equal amounts
For the dough
Maida (All purpose flour) - 2cups
Soda - 1/8 teaspoon
Warm water - as needed

For decoration

Saffron strands
Silver waraq

How to make / Method:

Make the pliable dough with given ingredients.
Make sugar syrup into one thread consistency
Mix the condensed milk and coconut into a smooth mixture for filling.
Work with the dough for 1-2 minutes on a flat board, and divide into equal balls, roll out like Samosa pouches, fill with the sweet mixture.
Heat the oil & ghee, turn into medium heat.
Add Samosas batch-wise and deep fry both sides into golden brown.
Soak them in syrup for some time and decorate with silver waraq & saffron strands.

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