Samosa Recipe | How to make Samosa | Aloo Samosa Recipe

 

Samosa or Aloo Samosa is a very popular snack or appetizer in India. Samosa is fried all purpose flour pastry filled with spiced potato and pea mixture . Samosa can be enjoyed with any kind of chutney . My favorite way to serve samosa is with cilantro chutney and tamarind chutney .

Ingredients

(For dough )

• All purpose flour or maida 2.5 cups
• Carom seeds 1/2 tsp
• Salt 1/2 tsp
• Oil 1/2 cup
• Water 1/2 cup + couple of tbs extra

(Samosa filling)

• Boiled potatoes 3 big
• Green peas frozen or boiled 1/2 cup
• Oil 2 tbs
• Asafoetida or hind 1/4 tsp
• Cumin seeds or jeera 1/2 tsp
• Crushed ginger 1 tbs and Green chillies (optional ) as your preference
• Coriander powder 1 tbs
• Garam masala 1/2 tbs
• Cumin powder 1/2 tsp
• Dry mango powder or amchur 1 tsp
• Cilantro finely chopped as required
• Salt to taste

Method

Preparing Dough

• Take flour in a bowl.
• Add carom seeds and salt in the flour and mix well.
• Add oil in the flour. Mix flour and oil very well.
• Add water little by little to form a firm and stiff dough.
• Cover the dough and rest for 20-30 minutes.

Preparing Samosa Stuffing

• Heat oil into a pan.
• Add asafoetida and carom seeds into pan.
• Add crushed ginger and sauté for 1 minute.
• Add boiled potatoes into pan. Mash the potatoes with help of spatula.
• Add all the dry spices to the potatoes. Mix very well to blend spices with the potatoes.
• Add salt to taste and mix very well.
• Add boiled or frozen peas to the potato mixture and mix well.
• Sauté potato and pea mixture for another 5 minutes.
• Add finely chopped cilantro and mix well.
• Potato stuffing is ready and set aside to cool completely.

Preparing Samosa

• Knead the dough for another 2 minutes.
• Divide the dough into equal portion.
• Roll one dough ball into a oval shape and cut it into two parts.
• Take one part and apply water on straight edge.
• Bring the ends of straight side and stick together to make a cone shape.
• Pinch the pointed end of the cone.
• Fill 1 or 2 tbs of potato and pea stuffing into samosa. Press down the stuffing little bit.
• Apply water on the edge. 
• Make a pleat on other side. Bring that side and stick with other.
• Seal the samosa by pressing both sides together.
• Prepare all the samosas and cover with moist cloth or paper towel.

Frying Samosas

• Heat oil in a kadai on low heat. Oil should not be very hot .
• Drop the samosas into the oil.
• Fry samosas on low heat until it gets firm and golden color.
• Once samosas get golden color , increase the heat on medium and fry samosas until it gets light brown color.
• Lower the heat and remove samosas from oil.
  
• Enjoy Samosas with your favorite chutney or sauce.

 

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