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Vegetable Samosas

Cooking Time: About 6 minutes per batch.
Quantity: Makes about 10

Samosa pastry is great if you can get it. Filo pastry works too, but you need to use two layers and use much more water to seal the edges, and it just isn't the same.

Ingredients

Frozen samosa or filo pastry - defrosted
1 medium onion
1 medium potato
1 carrot
2 tsp medium curry powder
Handful of frozen peas
1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

Chop onion and finely dice potato and carrot.
Boil potato cubes in water for about 3 minutes, then drain.
Heat the oil in a small saucepan and add curry powder, onion, carrot, and drained potato cubes.
Stir in peas and salt and leave to cool slightly.
Right - now peel off one of the samosa wrappers and lay it onto a chopping board. This bit IS easy, but it's hard to explain so here's a diagram - I made it as simple as possible!
Fold the bottom left corner (2) to point b - about 2/3 of the way across the top edge.
Fold the left hand end over, so that point a meets point d along the bottom edge. Now you have a pocket that you can fill with about 2 tsp of filling.
Tuck in the little tiny flap (corner 1) and fold the top right hand corner (corner 3) over and seal with a little water or flour and water paste. Now tuck in the last flap (corner 4!) and seal. Now you can make the rest!
When the oil is hot (test it with a minute bit of pastry and see if it sizzles) fry the samosas for about 6 minutes until golden brown on the outside. Leave to drain on kitchen paper.

Source : http://www.parsleysoup.co.uk/getrecipe.php?section=starters&rec...

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Permalink Reply by lakshman on February 28, 2013 at 7:58am

looks good. However, I would say this is not the way samosas in India are traditionally made.

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Permalink Reply by Natalia García on November 16, 2013 at 2:47am

How are them traditionally made? I want to learn =D

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Permalink Reply by lakshman on November 16, 2013 at 3:48am

The above ones are not too off but Indian samosas are usually not as flat as the above and a little bloated.

Here are a couple of links:

http://yummyvegan.tumblr.com/post/5064280742/vegan-jain-samosa-reci...

http://www.sailusfood.com/2010/03/18/samosa/

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Permalink Reply by Natalia García on November 16, 2013 at 6:41am

Thank you!!! I will make them this weekend :)

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Permalink Reply by Natalia García on November 16, 2013 at 2:47am

Them look great! Thanks for sharing!

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Permalink Reply by Judith Green Hershel on March 20, 2016 at 3:30pm

My friend Lori and I get together one Saturday per month and try different recipes. We are both vegan.

This is definitely on the menu for next time. If one of us gets to Whole Foods in the meantime, we can probably get Samosa wraps. Otherwise, it's either phyllo pastry or wonton wraps.

Thoughts, anyone, on which would be best?

Sharing with you a delicious recipe from the Minimalist Baker:

http://minimalistbaker.com/green-chickpea-curry-with-couscous/

Enjoy!