Onion samosa recipe
Simple Onion stuffed pastry sheets
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Ingredients
For making Pastry sheets
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 1/2 cup maida
- salt to taste
- 1 tbsp oil
Onion stuffing
- 1/8 cup oil
- 4 large onions - sliced
- salt to taste
- 1/8 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- 1/8 tsp garam masala
- 1 pinch chaat masala
For making maida paste
- 2 tbsp maida
- water - to make it a thick paste
Instructions
For making sheets
- Mix in the wheat flour, maida, salt and oil in a bowl. Start kneading it to a smooth soft dough adding water.
- close it with a damp cloth and rest it for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, work the dough again and cut equal portions of it.
- Work each portion to a ball and dust enough to spread it out to a thin elongated disc
- Cut a rectangle of it. prepare all the balls to sheets the same way.
For the onion filling
- Heat oil and fry the sliced onions with salt until transparent.
- Add turmeric, chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala and chaat masala.
- Fry until raw smell leaves. Onion filling is ready.
To stuff the filling onto the sheets
- Fold the sheet thrice from one corner to other and vice versa to make it a triangle. Watch the video for better idea.
- Fill in the onion masala into it.
- Apply maida paste on the corners of the remaining sheet.
- fold it gently and secure all the ends by pressing it once.
Deep fry samosas
- Prepare all the samosas by filling onion masala.
- Heat oil in a kadai and when it is hot, put the samosas in. 3-4 at a time depending upon the kadai size.
- Turn sides often and Deep fry until golden brown.
- Take it out and serve hot !