Samosa is one of the most popular delicacies of Asian cuisine. These goodies are found almost on every table of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and other Central Asian countries. However, it is already very popular in Nigeria. If you want to make it at home checkup our recipes!
How to make samosa?
Features and a variety of samosa recipes
How to make samosa?
A lot of toppings and dough recipes allow you to find the one that you will like. A lot of people think that they can only buy these things on the street. But few people know that you can alone make this master-work right in your kitchen. We’ve gathered a few plain recipes for how to cook samosa.
Samosa is a rounded, triangular or four-sided envelope of unleavened (unsalted) dough with a stuffing. It is baked, as a customs, in a particular roasting frying-pan on the wood – the tandoor.
How to make samosa?
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It will be very difficult to find such particular furnace in our country, but it does not mean that cooking samosa at home is not possible. You can substitute tandoor with any usual gas or electric oven, the taste remains almost the same.
The content of these unleavened envelopes can be quite diverse. It depends on your imagination. It can be fish, meat, vegetables, beans, cheese, fruit or any other filling. But the standard model of these ‘pies’ with meat needs the presence of onions, fat and a batch of spices. It is thanks to this combination of products, it becomes extremely juicy and also fragrant snack. The dough can be bought in the store or you can make it yourself at home.
How to cook the dough for samosa?
How to make samosa?
The dough for the meat envelopes preparation can be varied. It is always a matter of taste. You can cook the standard recipe with fresh water, you can get it from the store, but you can make choose one of the homemade pastries. Do you want to cook the dough for samosa in your oven? Pay attention to these several appropriate recipes.
Sugary dough for samosa
How to make samosa?
To cook up the standard unleavened dough, you need to take 245 ml of warm water, add 20 ml of sunflower oil, a pinch of salt and about 20 ml of vinegar. Knead dough till it can be effortlessly placed apart from the fingers. Leave it for an hour.
The dough absorbs the flour during this time and becomes sufficiently elastic, so it will be effortless to work with it. After all, this strong material is necessary for building the envelopes, which in any case should not be ‘unglued’ during the baking period, in order not to lose out its juicy stuffing.
Homemade puff pastry
How to make samosa?
For cooking the domestic puff pastry you will need more food than for classic unleavened one. But the taste of dough speaks for itself. This amazing, crisp product can be savored without any additional toppings. If you want to cook the pastry, chop margarine or soft butter (245 grams) with flour (take 215 grams) and then rub the mix in a fine crumb.
In a separate container, pour a glass of warm water, add there 15 ml of vinegar and also the same amount of vodka. Beat one egg, salt and add it to the oil-flour mix. Knead the dough and leave in the cold place for about 45-60 minutes. During this time you can cook your filling.
Most delicious samosa recipes
How to make samosa?
To prepare a delicious samosa, you should use only the best recipes. We offer you top best recipes that you will find below. We hope you’ll like them!
The cooking secrets of Uzbek samosa
How to make samosa?
Such delights of Uzbek cuisine as samosa are loved by a lot of people in Nigeria. Thanks to the Internet, now we can easily learn all the secrets of preparation of this eastern cooking.
To cook dough of the Uzbek samosa you need:
- flour (0.5 kg);
- warm water (235 ml);
- 1 egg;
- fat or butter (105 grams);
- a pinch of salt and sesame.
Uzbek samosa dough recipe is very simple. Sift the flour, mix water with egg and salt in a bowl and add it to the flour and then form the dough. Cover it with some cloth and leave it for about 25-30 minutes. Then roll out a thin layer and smear it with liquid fat, fold several times, and then roll again. Repeat this maneuver a few times and your dough for Uzbek samosa is ready. Roll a thin layer, cover it with some cloth and put in the cold place.
Filling of Uzbek samosa:
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- 1 kg of pulp of lamb;
- a pinch of cumin;
- 0,5 kg of onions;
- 1 egg;
- fat or butter (135 grams);
- some pepper and salt.
How to make samosa?
Cut meat with a knife, do not use a blender or meat grinder. Onions must be finely chopped and mixed with lamb. Add some salt, egg, cumin and also pepper. Mix everything carefully and start making envelopes.
In order to know how to build samosa envelope, take the cooled roll of raw dough, cut a circle, the thickness of which must be about 1-2 centimeters. Place it vertically and press down by hand, getting flattened cake. You can use a rolling pin or a hand to form a flat ‘cake’.
Place fat or butter in the middle of this flat ‘cake’, then spread your filling and close the dough to prevent ingress of air when frying. When you turn up your envelope, fat or butter should be on top of the meat.
How to make samosa?
Thus, it will melt when frying and spread throughout the filling, thus making your samosa juicy inside.
You can create the envelopes according to your own fantasy. It may be a rectangle, oval or round – it depends on the imagination of the chef. Put it on a baking paper (a seam must look down) smear it with yolk and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Then put it in the oven. It should be cooked for about 45-55 minutes at 195-205 degrees. Ready samosa is eaten both hot and cold.
Samosa puff pastry with chicken
How to make samosa?
As it is known, chicken is dry in comparison with lamb, pork or beef (its separate parts). Therefore, for the preparation of cakes with chicken meat, you should not choose the fillets place of a bird, but to give the preference to more juicy parts. Thus, to prepare a chicken samosa the following ingredients are required.
For the dough:
How to make samosa?
- yogurt (155 ml);
- butter or margarine (270 grams);
- flour (285 grams);
- 1 egg;
- loose component for dough;
- salt.
For the filling:
How to make samosa?
- chicken meat (2 kg);
- onion (half a kilo);
- pepper, cumin, sesame seeds, and salt;
- cilantro and parsley;
- cream butter (315 grams).
Recipe of a chicken samosa with puff pastry is quite simple too. To prepare the dough, you need to chop the butter with flour to small chips. Separately whip egg with salt and add it to yogurt. Mix the two masses, chips and yogurt with egg, and knead the dough. Several times roll it out and put in the cold place.
How to make samosa?
If you want to get a tasty and juicy chicken samosa use the chicken pulp, chop it with a sharp knife. Onions are also cut like pieces of meat. Then chop green, sprinkle some salt and aromatic components on meat and mix it.
The samosa forming system is the same. Roll out the dough, place inside a piece of fat component (in this case cream butter), the minced meat will be on the top. Close the envelope as you like. Smear them with water or oil, and crumble sesame on top. Put your envelopes in the oven and bake for about 45-60 minutes using not too intense heat.
Samosa with pork and puff pastry
How to make samosa?
A lot of people love traditional pork pies on the basis of flat puff pastry. In comparison with the chicken, there will be no difficulties concerning the excessive dryness of filling. Pork meat, due to the presence of fine layers of fat, is perfect for stuffing the envelopes. Would you like to cook delicate and fragrant samosa with pork and puff pastry on the basis of beer?
Then get this set of products:
How to make samosa?
- pork (back or neck) – 1 kg;
- onion (half a kilo);
- white flour (660 grams);
- a mix of dry peppers;
- beer (330 ml);
- 2 eggs;
- margarine (290 grams);
- two pinches of salt.
To make the dough, chop margarine with flour and a pinch of salt. Then, add one egg a cold beer, whip it and add to margarine. Knead the dough, and you feel the flavor inherent to the dough on the basis of beer. Put your dough to the side (it is better to put it in the refrigerator).
Meanwhile, prepare the filling of the samosa. Mince your meat together with onion. Add the egg, spices and a pinch of white salt. Take your dough, stretch it into thin slices, put in the minced meat, then carefully glue the edges. Put samosa in the often until it gets ‘golden’ color.
Beef samosas with meat and egg
How to make samosa?
If having certain religious beliefs or health problems makes you exclude the meat of pigs from your diet, you can easily replace it with beef. Dough for beef envelopes can be prepared at home or you can buy ready one at the store (it should be without yeast).
You should take the following ingredients for filling:
- beef pulp (635 grams);
- parsley;
- eggs (7 pcs.);
- spices (basil, pepper, etc.);
- mayonnaise (115 g);
- salt.
Samosa made using the ready pastry is cooked very quickly. Beef is finely chopped with onions or ground using a meat grinder. Add one egg, dried herbs, salt and mayonnaise to meat. 6 eggs are hard boiled and cut into cubes. Mix all the ingredients and your filling is ready. Take 515 grams of puff pastry, roll out and cut it into squares.
Put a spoonful of the filling, glue the edges and bake.
Sweet and salty samosa with pumpkin
How to make samosa?
As you know, a pumpkin is a valuable storehouse of various vitamins and minerals. It may be stored for a long time, maintaining freshness, and without losing its main advantages. This is very convenient. A pumpkin can be cooked as an ingredient in sweet dishes and of some salty snacks.
The recipe of homemade samosa with the addition of pumpkin as a sweet filling is very simple. In order to cook samosa dough, you should is the sour goat’s milk as the base. But if there is no such, it is possible to replace it with any other sour milk.
There is a huge variety of samosa recipes in the vastness of the Internet. The best one for you can be easily found. If you’ve ever tried to do any dishes with wrapper and spring rolls – then you should dare to cook samosa at home. But if you have any problems you can check up our video guide. We recommend you to try all of the above methods of cooking samosa. This yummy dish tastes good with any feeling. Enjoy your meal.
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