24 August, 2015
Samosas with a “Twist”
Comments : 1 Posted in : Appetizers, Continental, Quick Bite on by : food lover Tags: samosa
Ingredients for Stuffing:
- Green moong: 1 cup
- Boiled green peas: 1 cup
- Finely chopped french beans: 1/2 cup
- Oil: 2 teaspoon
- Cumin seeds: 1 teaspoon
- Roughly crushed fennel seeds: 1 teaspoon
- Dry mango powder(amchur): 1 teaspoon
- Sugar: 1 & 1/2 teaspoon (optional)
- Salt to taste
- Chopped coriander leaves: 2 tablespoon
- Green chili paste: 1 & 1/2 teaspoon
- Garam masala: 1 teaspoon
- Chopped mint leaves: 1/2 teaspoon (optional)
- Sesame seeds: 1/2 teaspoon
- Anardana (pomegranate): 1/4 teaspoon
Ingredients for Outer Crust:
- Refine flour (maida / All purpose flour): 3 cups
- Oil: 3 tablespoons
- Salt
- Carom seeds: 1/4 teaspoon
- Oil for frying
- Water as per requirement
Serves: 12 pieces
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Frying time: 25 minutes
Preparation:
- Soak moong in warm water for 3 hours and then boil(any method suitable as per your convenience).
- Squeeze out excess water. Heat oil and add cumin seeds,asafoitida and french beans.
- Add salt and cover the pan for 2 minutes and then add moong and green peas.
- Sauté for few seconds and add rest of ingredients . Mix properly and remove from heat and keep it at room temperature.
- Take flour in bowl add salt, oil and carom seeds and mix properly. Add water slowly and make semi soft dough so you can easily roll it.
- Divide in 12 pieces. Roll oval shape thin discs and cut in two part.
- Take one part and fold like ice cream cone and fill with stuffing. Apply little water on borders and fold properly (check the image above).
- Same way prepare all others.
- Take good amount of oil in the frying pan so that the samosa can be deep fried properly else it will stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Heat oil on slow flame and fry 2 to 3 samosa at a time (depends on frying pan size) till golden brown in color.
- Take a serving dish and put some tissue paper on them so as to soak excess oil from the samosas.
- Serve with green chutney and raw mango chutney.
Preparation for Mango Chutney:
- Chop and crush raw mango with jaggery, salt, red chili powder and roasted cumin powder.
- Add little water & mix well. You are all set.
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One thought on : 1
Pretty time consuming, but I will try to make it 🙂