Samosa

by Sam Pipes 19 May 2006 9 photos Rated 52% 242 votes when voting closed

OK, a giant samosa… nice!

Ingredients
Mince
Potatoes
Peas
onions
ghee
ginger
chilli powder
garam masala
turmeric
coriander
flour
salt
water
oil

£7.50 approx

Trays of mince, potatoes, onions, chopped coriander, spices, flour and a bottle of oil on a green worktop

First step: fry onions in ghee, add mince, fry, add potatoes, fry,
add spices, stir and cool. So far so good.

Diced potato added to browned mince in a large steel pan, wooden spoon stirring

Second step: mix flour and more ghee, add water, knead, roll,
shape. So far so good.

A large ball of pale dough resting on a heavily floured worktop

Fill, fold, seal… oh dear, holes…

Raw folded samosa filling a whole dinner plate, peas poking through splits in the pastry

Fill holes and fry. So far not bad.

The pastry parcel dropped into a wok of furiously bubbling oil on the gas hob

Obligitory disaster! Exploding samosa…. eeek…

The samosa has burst open in the pan, peas floating loose in the frying oil

Result is not completely as intended…

Deflated golden samosa collapsed across a dinner plate, mince and peas spilling from the split

New plan…new construction technique, thicker pastry…. result!well, kind of.

A second, neater triangular samosa frying flat in the wok, oil bubbling around its edges

Tasty!

Two plate-sized fried samosas, one cut open to show mince and peas, kitchen knife alongside

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