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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