Aloo Samosa / How to make perfect Samosa with 7 unique Tips / Easy and Perfect Samosa Recipe by Cook with Seema

Samosa is an all time favourite teatime snack famous across the Indian subcontinent.

Samosa is a delicious deep fried snack stuffed with spicy potato mixture.

I have tried to make this recipe very easy with 7 unique tips.

Preparation time:- 60 minutes
Servings :-6
Ingredients:-

For Dough:-

• All purpose flour or Maida - 2 cups or 250 grams
• Desi ghee - 60 grams
• Carom seeds - 1 tsp
• Salt - to taste
• Water - as required

For Filling:-

• Boiled Potato - 6 or 500 grams
• Frozen Pea - 2 tbsp
• Peanuts - 2 tbsp
• Cashew - 8-10 split  into halves
• Green chilly - 1 chopped
• Ginger - 1 tsp grated
• Garlic - 1 tsp grated
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder- 1/2 teaspoon
• Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
• Cumin powder- 1 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
• Chaat masala - 1 tsp
• Green coriander leaves - 2 tbsp chopped

Method:-

• Take the flour,carom seeds salt in a bowl and mix well and add ghee or oil.
• With the help of hand rub the ghee in the flour to get a bread crumb like consistency.
• The whole mixture should clamp together when joined.
• Now start needing the dough by adding little water at a time.
•  Knead a stiff dough, cover and keep aside for rest.
• Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan, add cumin seeds,green chilly ginger and garlic and saute for a minute.
• Add peanut, cashew and green peas and fry for 2 minutes.
• Add turmeric powder, cumin and red chilly powder and fry for a minute.
• Now add mashed potatoes and mix well.
• Fry for another 2 minutes.
• Now add salt, garam masala powder,chaat masala and green coriander leaves.
• Fry for a minute.
• Turn off the flame.
• Divide the dough into 6 portions.
• Take one portion of the dough, roll it with rolling pin into an oval shape keeping the thickness neither thick nor too thin.
• Cut it into two halves through the centre.
• Join the two ends to make a triangular shape by sealing the ends with water.
• Stuff the prepared samosa cone with the prepared potato filling.
• Apply some water with fingertips on the round samosa cone circumference (check the video to get it right)
• Prepare all the samosa this way.
• Now heat oil in a kadhai, once oil becomes medium hot place the samosas into oil carefully.
• Fry till golden by flipping in between.
• Once all the samosas turn golden take it out on paper towel.
• Your yummy samosa is ready to eat.

Tip 1- Make sure the quantity of maida and ghee should be in the ratio of 1:5 that is for 250 grams of maida I am using 50 grams of ghee.

Tip 2- Hold some portion of maida in your hand if it clump together when join then its perfect.

Tip3 - Knead the dough slight stiff than regular dough.

Tip 4- Don't mash the potato completely.

Tip 5- Don't overdo the masala the real flavour of potato should come in the filling.

Tip 6 - Don't roll the dough in circular shape, roll it into oval shape.

Tip 7- Don't fry the samosas on high flame.