Cook time
25mins
Difficulty
Flaky pastries filled with spicy potatoes and peas.

Ingredients

Dough

  • 2.5 cup all-purpose flour, plus extra for working with dough.
  • 0.5-1 tsp salt (to taste)
  • 1 cup buttermilk or yogurt

Filling

  • 2 large potatoes
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 cup onion, finely minced or chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tbsp freshly grated ginger
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1 tsp dried coriander (optional)
  • 0.75 tsp salt
  • 1.5 cup green peas, frozen
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • cayenne, to taste

Steps

  1. Fill a large saucepan with about 3 qts of water and set on high heat until boiling. Peel the potatoes and boil until soft, about 15 minutes.
  2. Meanwhile, make the dough: combine flour and salt in a medium bowl. Make a “well” in the middle by pushing the ingredients out to the side; pour buttermilk or yogurt in the middle.
  3. Mix the ingredients together: start by gently moving the flour/salt into the well with a spoon, continue until all combined.
  4. Add flour to a flat surface and hands, and place dough onto surface. Kneed the dough, adding flour to remove stickiness as necessary.
  5. Make 1-inch round balls form the dough.
  6. Using a rolling pin, roll out each ball of dough into a oval (continuing to coat the pin and surface with flour as necessary)
  7. Once the potatoes are very soft, remove from saucepan and into medium bowl. Mash and set aside.
  8. Cooking the filling)
  9. Melt the butter in a sauce pan on medium heat. Add onion, garlic, ginger, mustard seeds, coriander, and salt.
  10. Sauté for about 8 to 10 minutes, or until the onions are transparent and fragrant.
  11. Add mashed potatoes and frozen peas to pan and combine all for about a minute.
  12. Sprinkle in paprika and mix well.
  13. Let the mixture sit for 15 minutes before assembling the samosas.
  14. Assembling Samosas)
  15. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
  16. Fill a small bowl with water and another with oil.
  17. Take about a tablespoon of potato mix and a rolled out dough oval. Place the mix on the center of the dough. Dip a brush in water and wet the edges of the dough. Fold in half, keeping the bulk of the mixture in the center, and press down on the edges with a fork until it sticks together. Repeat for all ovals.
  18. Grease a pan generously with oil and place samosas onto pan. Brush the top with more oil.
  19. Bake in center of the oven for 15 minutes.
  20. Remove from oven. Reduce oven to 375 degrees F.
  21. Turn all samosas over and return to oven. Bake for another 10 minutes.
  22. Let cool for about 5 minutes, then serve immediately.

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