Crispy Baked Samosa!

If you are a fan of Indian snacks, you're in for a treat!! It's Samosa time guys!! 😋

What if I said you can have crispy samosas by baking? I'm so excited to share this recipe with you guys! So let's get started!!! 😍

Ingredients:

For dough:

1. Whole-wheat flour - 1 cup
2. All-purpose flour - 1 cup
3. Semolina - 1 tbsp
4. Carom seeds - 1 tsp
5. Salt - 1/2 tsp
6. Ghee (melted unsalted butter) - 3 tbsp
7. Water - as required

For filling:

1. Ginger: 2 inches
2. Green chilies - 3-4 nos.
3. Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
4. Fennel seeds - 1 tbsp
5. Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp
6. Boiled potatoes - 9-10 (medium-sized)
7. Ghee (melted unsalted butter) - 1 tbsp
8. Boiled green peas - 1/3 cup
9. Salt - as per taste
10. Black pepper freshly crushed (powdered) - as per taste
11. Chaat masala - 1 tsp
12. Kasuri methi - 1/2 tsp
13. Chopped fresh coriander - 3 tbsp
14. Milk - for brushing over non-baked samosas

Method:

For dough:

1. Add all-purpose flour, semolina, salt, carom seeds, and ghee (or unsalted butter) in a large bowl. Mix well until combined well. Make sure that the texture of the dough should stick when pressed.
2. Add cold water gradually to the flour and knead a stiff & tight dough. Knead it for about 10 minutes, then cover it with a damp cloth and let it rest for an hour. 

Let's make the filling! :)

For filling:

1. In a grinding mixer (or mortar & pestle as I prefer), add ginger and green chillies and grind it into a fine paste and keep it aside.
2. In a grinding mixer/mortar & pestle, add cumin seeds, fennel seeds, and coriander seeds and grind to a coarse powder.
3. Cut the boiled potatoes into cubes.
4. In a big pan add ghee / unsalted butter, & coarse powder of spices, saute for about a minute on low flame, and then add potatoes, green peas, salt & black powder (you can also make fresh-coarse powder on mortar & pestle), green chili-ginger paste, chaat masala, kasuri methi (fine powdered), fresh lemon juice, and freshly chopped coriander leaves. Mix well until combined well.
5. Add water (5 tsp) and sugar (2 tsp) in a small bowl and mix well. Add the sugar syrup to the samosa filling and stir the mixture well.
6. increase the flame to a high volume and stir the filling simultaneously for 3-4 minutes.
7. Mash the potatoes slightly, not too much and if your potatoes stick to the pan, it means you're going in the right direction. 🙌
8. Take out the filling to a large bowl and let it cool.

 Most crucial step - for making samosa:

Preheat oven to 375°F while we shape our samosas. 

1. To make the samosa sheets, knead the dough once again which has rested well & make small equal size dough balls. Further, flatten the balls into thin sheets and make sure that the sheet isn't too thin or too thick, try to balance between both. 
2. Divide the sheet width-wise into two equal halves. Pick one half and apply water on the edge of the straight line, bring the end together (by folding and joining both ends turning it into a cone shape), then fill the potato mixture (press lightly downward). 
3. Bring the openings of the samosa together and seal them properly to shape a proper samosa.
4. Repeat the same process for all samosas.

For Baking samosas:

1. In a large baking tray, set the butter (baking) paper and place all the samosas keeping a little distance between each of them. brush milk adequately at the end.
2. Set the oven at 375°F for 20-25 mins!
3. And Voila! Your crispy baked samosas are ready to enjoy!! 
4. Serve it with mint-coriander chutney! ;)

I hope you guys will enjoy this recipe and share your thoughts and experience with me. Can't wait to hear about your experiences! Happy Baking <3