Tuesday, March 14, 2006

How to make samosa ?







Ingredients

PASTRY:
225g flour
50 g ghee or clarified butter
1/2 spoon salt
1/2 spoon caraway seeds or ajwain
75 ml warm water

FILLING :
2 spoonoil
1 spoon cumin seeds
1.5 cm. ginger, grated fine
1 spoon garam masala powder
2 boiled, peeled, small diced potatoes
1 spoon red chilli powder
1 spoon mango powder
2 spoon coriander powder
1 1/2 spoon cumin powder
1 spoon chilli powder
salt to taste
1/2 green peas, boiled in water with a little salt
2 green chillies, deseeded and chopped fine
1/2 coriander leaves, chopped
1 spoon lemon juice

oil for deep frying

Method

To prepare the filling:
Heat the oil over medium heat. Add the cumin seeds. When they sizzle, add the coriander, red chilli, cumin and mango powders. Add the ginger and green chillis.

After half a minute, add the potatoes and the peas. Add the garam masala, lemon juice, salt and mix well. Taste and adjust seasoning.

Cover and cook for 1-2 minutes. Stop heating and allow to cool.

Add the chopped coriander and mix it.

Stir in the garam masala powder, green chillies. Remove from heat and add the lemon juice. Cool thoroughly and mix in the coriander leaves.

To prepare the pastry:
Add the ghee, caraway seeds and salt to the flour. Rub in well. Add enough warm water to mix a soft dough. Knead until the dough feels soft to the touch.

Fill these cones with the prepared filling, leaving about 1/2 cm. border on the top of the cone. Now moisten the top edges and press them hard together.

Deep fry the samosas in hot oil over medium heat until they are golden brown and drain on absorbent paper.

16 Comments:

At Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:24:00 PM, Blogger Organized Noise said...

I might have to bookmark this page. I love samosas and would love to be able to make them in the comfort of my own home.

 
At Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:54:00 AM, Blogger Butchie said...

How about palak paneer & makni?

 
At Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:12:00 AM, Blogger Cincinato said...

delicioso

 
At Wednesday, March 15, 2006 3:02:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi there,

i love indian food and i'm always looking for nice recipies.

Especially for murgh madras I haven't found one yet.

Do you have one???

Cheers

Sebastian

 
At Wednesday, March 15, 2006 5:18:00 AM, Blogger Maria said...

Nice! I also love indian food, so keep up the good work giving us some tasty recepies!

 
At Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:19:00 AM, Blogger Beau Lotus 涟 said...

Hi, I cook Indian myself (among others) and just looking at your ingredients I can imagine that your samosas must taste really good. Keep up the good work!

 
At Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:52:00 AM, Blogger Evil Monkey said...

Looks lovely. Have a good murgh tikka masala?

 
At Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:10:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

mmm this makes me hungry :-)

 
At Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:59:00 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

THANK YOU!! I have been hunting down a great recipe for Samosas. You are a gem..I will add you to my fav blogs! Brava.

 
At Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:45:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

YUM!

 
At Wednesday, March 15, 2006 3:36:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yum! I love these things. After I botch up the recipe, they probably won't resemble the picture. lol

 
At Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:39:00 AM, Blogger Terra Shield said...

Hungry....

 
At Thursday, March 16, 2006 3:14:00 AM, Blogger SmeatonTwoVeg said...

now i know what i'm munching on tonight.

i was already hank marvin before i read this, i'm glad there's music playing or everyone would hear my stomach rumbling. come ooon lunch!

 
At Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:12:00 PM, Blogger Grrrreggerrrr said...

Oh wow, this is just what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch

 
At Saturday, March 18, 2006 10:58:00 AM, Blogger Scott McLean said...

Thanks a lot. I love Indian food. I cook okra curry and dudhi halwa and that's about it. I'll try your recipes when I get some more time. You are welcome to check out my site too about news on our planet. Take care, Scott

 
At Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:49:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi how much can you make with all these ingredients?

 

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