Samosas Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 tsp Salt
- 3 tbsp Oil
- 2 tsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Cumin
- 3 cups Maida
- ½ kg Potatoes
- 1 cup green Peas
- 1 tsp Chilli powder
- 1 tsp Mango powder
- 1 tsp Coriander seeds
- A pinch of Asafoetida
- ¼ tsp Turmeric powder
- 5-6 chopped green Chillies
Method:
- Mix thoroughly maida and a pinch of salt.
- Pour hot 2 tbsp oil and mix it dry.
- Knead the dough hard and leave for 1-2 hours.
- Peal off boiled potatoes and chop them fine. Boil fresh green peas.
- Take a tbsp of oil in a pan.
- Add cumin, corainder, asafoetida and finely chopped green chillies to hot oil.
- Saute till the chilli changes colour.
- Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, boiled peas and the chopped potatoes.
- Mix thoroughly, adding salt, sugar, and mango powder. Saute, switch off the burner and allow the mix to cool.
- Shape the dough into small balls. Roll the ball sufficiently thin and cut them into halves.Turn each half into a cone and stick it with water.
- Deep-fry them into hot oil over low-medium flame till golden brown.
- Serve warm with tomato ketchup and chutney.
Tip: Add a pinch of salt to the oil while frying pakodas or koftas and you will use up less oil.