How To Make Samosa (Small Chops)

With this recipe, you do not have to wait for an owambe party to eat this delicious snack. You can always make it at home and eat to your fill.

Recipe makes 16 samosas.

The dough:

The filling:

2 medium Irish potatoes
2 handfuls of green peas
1 large carrot
200g minced beef/meat
2 cooking spoons of vegetable oil
Stock cubes
1 stalk of spring onion (cut into thin circles)
1 teaspoon of curry powder
Salt and ground pepper (to taste)
1 pinch of garlic powder (optional)
Feel free to customize the filling to your taste but the classic Indian Samosa must contain Irish potatoes and green peas.

Filling

Wash and peel the irish potatoes and carrots. Dice into tiny bits, add green peas. Add a little salt and cook for about 5 minutes. Take off the heat once the get soft and set aside.
Slice onions in circles. Set aside.
Heat up vegetable oil in a small pot, add the onions, curry and garlic powder, and stir for a few seconds.
Add the minced meat and stir-fry until it turns to a pale colour.
Add stock cubes, pepper and salt to taste.
Add the cooked vegetables and mix together on medium head for about 3 minutes.

Dough

Pour flour into a medium mixing bowl.
Add warm water, salt and vegetable oil. Mix until you have a smooth, stretchy dough.
Cover mixture with an airtight plastic wrap and leave to breathe for 15 minutes, then knead the dough to make it more stretchy.
Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough to a thickness of about 2-3mm.
Cut the dough in circles. You can use the tip of a round glass bowl if you do not have a circular dough cutter.
Cut those circles in two equal halves and smudge water on the straight part of the semi-circular dough. Don’t close it yet.
Put a spoonful of the filling into the dough. Repeat until all the dough is finished.Heat up vegetable oil in medium heat.
Make sure the oil is not too hot for it. Fry until the colour changes to light brown.
Place the fried samosa on a paper towel to drain off excess oil.