Our favorite snack Samosas

"The most popular"  snack of India is definitely samosa and also considers as oily/unhealthy too. But ofcourse that does not stop us from eating samosas. I still remember when I was living in delhi with my husband , we used to have lot of samosas. Every evening while returning back from office I used to buy four samosas , two for each , to have with our late evening tea. And the result obviously started showing on us with increase in weight, some unnecessary health issues etc etc. And then we stopped eating samosas totally.  Recently I saw a home-made samosa post of a friend in an online food forum where I am a member also, I just could not stop my temptation. Made almost 3 batches of samosas. The husband and my girl loved it a lot. Home-made samosas are definitely higher in rank of health and hygiene. I made few with potato onion stuffing , few with peas/matar stuffing and few with chocolate stuffing. CHocolate stuffing ones were the girl's top favourite. That was actually an idea I got from Chef Shipra's show in foodfood channel. Undoubtedly a great one. Moreover that was a baked version so no guilt of having excessive oil etc

Try these samosas in your kitchen to have as your evening snacks or as breakfast too.

Below ingredients measurements should give you approx. 12-14 samosa. So out of this I made samosas with the three different stuffing as mentioned.

Ingredients:

Maida/All purpose flour: 1/2cup
Whole wheat flour: 1/2 cup
Salt: 1/2 tsp
Baking powder : A pinch
Black cumin seed/shahi jeera: 1/2 tsp
Refined oil/ghee: 1 tbsp
Sufficient water to make a soft dough

For the filling:

Potato filling
Potato: 1 medium sized peeled, boiled and mashed roughly
Onion: 1 small sized chopped
Green chillies: 1-2 chopped
Coriander powder: 1/2 tsp
Chat Masala: 1 tsp
Cumin powder: 1/2 tsp
salt to taste

 

For the peas filling ,
Peas (store bought pack): 1/2 cup soak the peas overnight and pressure cook till soft
Onion: 1 small sized chopped
Green chillies: 1-2 chopped
Coriander powder: 1/2 tsp
Chat Masala: 1 tsp
Cumin powder: 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste

Chocolate filling:

Any dark chocolate of your choice: 1/2 cup roughly chopped
Sufficient quantity of honey for the glaze
Pistachio: 3-4 chopped finely to garnish

Refined oil : 2 tbsp. for preparing the stuffings and required amount of oil for deep frying the samosas

Method:

Make a soft dough with the APF, whole wheat flour, salt, baking powder, shahi jeera, oil/ghee and sufficient amount of water and let the dough to rest for 5-10 minutes.

for the potato stuffing:
In a kadhai/pan, heat oil . Add the onion and fry till translucent. add the chopped green chillies, salt of the dry masala and the mashed potatoes. Combine them well and fry for about a minute or two and put off the flame and allow this to cool.

For peas stuffing: same method as used for the potato filling above.

With the prepared dough, take out small portions and make balls out of them. Roll these balls to small sized round pooris and cut with a knife through the center of the rolled out poori.

 

with a brush or with your finger tips, on the straight edge of the sliced poori, apply some water and give the basic shape of the samosa as shown in the picture below. Now join the two ends bringing the watered edge on top of the plain edge as shown in pic below. Press the edges well, so that they get sealed. It will now look like a cone. Make sure that the edges should be joined very well so that the stuffing does not come out while frying

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Now stuff the prepared samosa cone with your fillings of either potato/peas or the chocolate. Seal the edges by pressing with your fingers . I gave a detailing by pressing the edges with a fork. Repeat the same method for rest of the balls.

Heat oil in a deep kadhai/pan . Fry the samosas on both the sides till its golden brown in colour in low flame. Remove from oil and keep them in a tissue paper so that the extra oil can be soaked up.


For the baked version:

Preheat the oven at 180 degree Celsius. Grease the baking tray with some oil/ghee. Place the samosas on the baking tray and brush some oil on the samosas. Now bake them at 180 degree Celsius for about 15-20 minutes or till you get a brown crust on the samosas. Take them out of the oven and allow them to cool down on the cooling rack. Arrange them in a plate. Take some honey in a small bowl, dip a brush into the honey and apply that on the samosas. Now sprinkle the chopped pistachios on top of them and they are ready to be served. Don't miss the sight of melting chocolates coming out of the samosa.

Serve hot with tomato ketchup/tamarind chutney/coriander chutney and enjoy with your evening tea. Chocolate stuff samosas you can have with your tea/coffee. Your kids will definitely going to love this sweet version of samosas.