Mixed vegetable samosa

Ingredients

Oil for frying

For samosa dough: 2 ¾ cup maida flour/ maize flour, 3 tbsp un melted ghee, ½ tsp salt, ¾ cup water,

For filling: 1 tsp oil, 1 tsp mustard seeds, ginger paste, garlic paste, turmeric powder and salt as per the taste, A few curry leaves, 1 tbsp finely chopped green chillies, 2 onions finely chopped, 500 grams boiled and mashed potatoes, 200 grams carrot grated with big-holes grater, 200 grams cauliflower finely chopped, 250 grams fresh or frozen peas. 1 tsp garam masala, 2 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves.

For sticking paste: 3 tbsp flour, 1 pinch of salt, ½ cup water

Method

For preparing samosa dough: Combine maize flour, ghee and salt. When you add ghee in the dough it becomes crispy. Rub till it resembles to fine bread crumps. Gradually add water knead to smooth dough. Divide dough into 12 samosa pieces and set aside.

Preparing the filling: Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds and curry leaves. When splutter, add ginger paste, garlic paste, turmeric and salt. Stir and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Add all vegetables and garam masala. Stir and cook for 5 minutes. Remove, cool and divide it in 24 potions and set aside.

Preparing Sticking paste: Combine all the ingredients of sticking paste, mix to a smooth paste and set aside.

Preparing samosa: Roll each potion of prepared dough with rolling pin into round disk / Roti. Pile the disks one over the other, dredging flour on top of each disk. Cut the pile into half and place the piled disks into a muslin cloth. Place each halved disk on the palm and shape into a cone. Fill the cone with one potion of prepared filling and stick the edges with paste. Set aside. Repeat this process for all the remaining samosas. For frying, heat ghee in a wok. Put a few samosas in it and fry till light brown and crisp. Drain and remove on absorbent paper. Eat hot with chutney or tomato ketchup.

Note: If you don't have frozen peas or fresh peas then you can soak 150grams of dry peas and boil them.

Thanks for visiting. Please try this recipe and tell me your experience in comments. Jay Shree Ram!