Sunday, August 16, 2015

Chicken Samosa

Samosa is small fried turnover of South Asian origin, which is essentially fried or baked pastry with savory filling, such as spiced potatoes, onions, peas, lentils and at times the non-veggie version is made with minced meats like Chicken, Lamb or Beef.


Ingredients:

For the dough:
          2 cups All Purpose flour
          2 tbsp. ghee or oil
          Water as required
          Salt as required

For the stuffing:
           2 cup Chicken pieces with out bones (cut into very small pieces) 
           1/2 cup chopped Onion
          1/2 cup fresh Green Peas
           1tsp Ginger-Garlic paste
           1tsp Lime juice
           1 to 2 green chilies (optional)
           1tsp Chili powder
           1tsp Turmeric Powder
           1/2 Coriander powder
           1tsp Garam masala powder
           2tsp Oil
          Oil for deep frying

Method:

For the dough:
·          In a bowl mix flour, salt and oil to make a crumbled mixture.
·         Now add water and knead into soft dough.
·       Cover the dough with a wet muslin cloth and keep aside for 15 minutes.

For the stuffing:
·      On medium heat, heat a pan add Oil, when oil get hot add chicken, chopped Onion, Ginger-Garlic paste sauté for few min.
·      Now add fresh Green Peas, Green Chilies, Chili Powder, Turmeric Powder, Coriander powder, Garam masala powder and Lime juice. Stir well and with the lid on cook it for about 10 to 15 min. stir in between.
·      Bring out the stuffing on a plate let it to be cold.
·      Now make small balls from the dough. Roll each ball into a circle. Cut the circle into 4 quarters. Take 1 quarter, at a time and join the curved edges by pressing together to form a corn shape ,put the stuffing in the cone. Cover the cone with the open edge. Seal together the edges nicely and you get a triangle shape. (Or make small puri size circle and put stuffing in it, give it a flower shaped.)
·      Heat oil in a deep and wide pan on medium heat. Once the oil is really hot, but not smoking hot, reduce the flame to low medium and start frying the samosa. Fry till both sides are turn golden brown
·      Serve with tomato sauce

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