Sunday 1 May 2011

Cocktail Samosa Recipe





Ingredients:


1 1/2 cup refined flour (maida)
1/2 cup semolina (sooji)
a pinch baking powder
1 big cauliflower (phool gobi)
3 potato (alu)
a pinch ginger (adrak)
4 green chilly (hari mirch)
8-10 cashew nut (kaju)
8-10 raisins (kishmish)
1/2 tsp sugar (chini)
1 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
salt to taste
1 tsp red chilly powder (lal mirch)
1 1/2 tsp spice blend (garam masala)
1/2 tsp dry mango powder (amchoor)
oil for frying
4 tbsp clarified butter (ghee)

How to make Cocktail Samosa:
  • Mix baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt and 4 tbsp ghee in thickened milk.
  • Knead into dough using water and leave it covered for an hour.
  • Boil, peel and mash potato.
  • Grate cauliflower and ginger.
  • Heat 4 tbsp oil in a pan.
  • Fry ginger, green chilies, cumin seeds, salt, red chilly powder, spice blend and cauliflower in it.
  • Cook covered at low flame and stir occasionally.
  • When cauliflower softens, add sugar, potatoes, cashew nuts, raisins and mango powder. Mix well and remove it from the flame.
  • Now make small balls of refined milk and roll into small and thin chapatti.
  • Cut it in the centre.
  • Now make a cone of this half and stuff it with potatoes mixture.
  • Stick the corners with water to give a cone shape.
  • Heat oil in a pan and deep fry all samosas until they turn brown.
  • Serve them hot with hare dhanie ki chutney and meethi chutney.