Samosa
Samosa is a fried snack with spicy potato - peas filling. It is quite crispy and full of flavour. It is taken for snack with chutney or chane.
Ingredients
- 250 grams All Purpose Flour / Maida
- ¼ cup water
- 1 teaspoon Carrom Seeds
- 50 grams Ghee
- 250 grams potatoes boiled
- ½ cups green peas boiled
- 8-10 cashew
- 2 green chilies
- 1 inch ginger - paste
- 1 pinch Asafetida
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon Pomegranate seeds / aamchur
- ¾ teaspoon cumin
- ¾ teaspoon garam masala
- ½ teaspoon red chilli powder
- 2 tablespoon coriander leaves
Instructions
- Crumble potatoes and keep aside
- Add flour, ghee, ajwain and salt in a mixing bowl. Rub the flour between your palms to mix ghee in the flour.
- Make a dough by mixing water little-by-little. Cover the dough and keep aside.
- Heat a pan, put 1 tablespoon oil.
- Add cummin, let it crackle, add ginger, saute till raw smell goes.
- Add cashews and raisins (optional)
- Add potatoes, chilli powder, garam masala, aamchur/anardana and salt.
- Mix well and saute for 4-5 minutes. Add coriander leaves and set aside.
- Knead the dough to smoothen a bit. Take a portion and make a ball. Like this make all balls.
- Grease the rolling area and then flatten a ball, making oval shape.
- Cut it into two pieces.
- smear the edges with water and join the edges to make a cone. Press the corner to seat the cone
- Fill with potato masala and bring the edges together and make a pleat on one side. Bring back the pleat and seat it.
- Heat oil in a pan till medium hot.
- Add the samosas to the oil and fry them until golden.
- Drain it on tissue paper.
Nutrition
Calories: 172kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 4gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.4gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 13mgSodium: 33mgPotassium: 166mgFiber: 2gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 64IUVitamin C: 9mgCalcium: 12mgIron: 2mg
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