Name: Punjabi Samosa recipe by Priyanka Bapardekar at BetterButter
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 6-7 Boiled Potatoes; 3 Cups Maida/all purpose flour; Green peas - 1 cup; 1 dry red chilly; Black peppercorns- 12 nos; 1 piece of cinnamon; Mustard seeds - 1 tsp; 7-8 cashewnuts; Kishmish/Rasins; 1 + 1/2 tsp coriander seeds; 3/4 tsp cumin seeds; 2 Cardamons; Salt as required; Corriander leaves- handful; Refined flour as required

Ingredients Serving: 8

6-7 Boiled Potatoes
3 Cups Maida/all purpose flour
Green peas - 1 cup
1 dry red chilly
Black peppercorns- 12 nos
1 piece of cinnamon
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
7-8 cashewnuts
Kishmish/Rasins
1 + 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
3/4 tsp cumin seeds
2 Cardamons
Salt as required
Corriander leaves- handful
Refined flour as required

Instructions

Dough preparation :
In a bowl add all purpose flour ( Maida) and salt.
Heat 1/4 cup oil and add it to the flour, stir with spoon
Mix and rub well it with your both hands ( see the pic below )
We are doing this step for crispiness of the outer cover.
Add lukewarm water little by little and knead well. Remember, dough should be hard.
Let us prepare Samosa filling :
Smash potatoes, add in salt and mix it.
Heat a pan. Roast dry red chilly and all spices till aromatic. Grind it to a mixer, make fine masala powder and keep aside
Heat 2 tsp oil in a wok. Add mustard seeds. Once mustard seeds crackles add cashew nuts, kismis and dry masala powder and stir for a minute.
Add in boiled peas, little salt and mix well. Turn off gas.
In a plate add peas mixture, smashed potatoes and coriander leaves. Mix well.
Samosa making :
From the dough make 12 big balls.
Dust the dough ball with all purpose flour and then start rolling the dough into oval shaped rotis. Cut roties in 2 parts with the help of knife.
Take one part on palm. straight side should be at bottom and rounded side should above. Apply little water on edges and make a broad cone like this :-
Fill the cone with mixture
seal it
apply little water on right corner and fold it too.
Samosas are ready to fry
Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry Samosas on low flame till golden brown..

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