SURVIVOR: Samosa

[torchthebitch]

It may have been done before but I'm not going searching.

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Lamb Samosa FIlling


500g minced lamb
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic crushed
1teaspon curry powder
½ easpon chilli powder
1 teasmon ground tumeric
½ teaspon gorund roasted cumin seeds
1 fresh chilli finaly diced
1 tspn chopped mint or corriander
½ tspn fresh grated ginger
salt and ground pepper to taste
juice of half a lemon



Heat the oil in a frying pan, add the onion and garlic mix in the spices and seasoning and fry until soft. Add the mince, stirring until cooked. Remove from heat and stir in the mint and lemon juice.

Now it's time for the pastry.

 

[torchthebitch]

Making the Samosa Pastry


You don't have to make your own pastry. You can simply buy some ready-made pastry from the shop. For samosas you want to fry, use Filo Pastry and for samosas you want to cook in the oven use Puff Pastry.

This recipe will make enough pastry for 24 samosas and you will need:

225gm. plain flour
2 tspn. salt
2tblspb. vegetable oil
80 ml warm water.

Mix flour and salt into a bowl. Make a well into the centre and add the oil and enough water to make a firm dough. Knead the dough on a floured surface until smooth and roll into a ball. Cover in plastic wrap and set aside at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Divide the pastry into 12 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a ball and roll out into a circle of 15 cm. Divide this circle into two equal pieces with a knife.

Brush each edge with a little water and form a cone shape around your fingers, sealing the dampened edge.

Fill the cases with a tblpns of your chosen mixture and press the two dampened edges together to seal the top of the cone.
Deep fry the samosas in hot oil until crisp and brown take out and drain on a paper towel.

 

[trysail]

Wasn't there a baseball player named Samosa? Or am I confusing him with a Latin American dictator?

 

[torchthebitch]

Wasn't there a baseball player named Samosa? Or am I confusing him with a Latin American dictator?

Baseball? That's rounders with hotdogs, isn't it?

 

[trysail]

Baseball? That's rounders with hotdogs, isn't it?

... as opposed to cricket where the out side's in ( or is it the side that's out is in?) In any event, baseball is the game played without a wicket where a single game is normally concluded in slightly less time than a fortnight.

 

[torchthebitch]

... as opposed to cricket where the out side's in ( or is it the side that's out is in?) In any event, baseball is the game played without a wicket where a single game is normally concluded in slightly less time than a fortnight.

And where's the fun in rushing it so much?