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Vegetable Samosas
Serves - makes 12-15 samosas
Preparation: 60 | Cooking: 5
Ingredients:
3 medium potatoes (500g) potatoes, peeled
20g ghee
1 green chilli, deseeded & finely chopped
2 tsp Spencers cumin seeds
2 tsp Spencers red mustard seeds
1 tsp Spencers ground turmeric
¼ tsp Spencers chilli powder
1 tbsp lemon juice
¼ cup chopped fresh coriander
4 sheets puff pastry, just thawed
Vegetable oil, to deep fry
Mint & coriander raita
2 green chillies, deseeded and roughly chopped
1/3 cup chopped fresh mint
1/3 cup chopped fresh coriander
130g (½ cup) Greek-style yoghurt
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
Salt & pepper
Method:
- Boil potatoes in a large saucepan for 20 minutes or until tender. Roughly chop.
- Heat the ghee in a fry pan until melted and add the chopped potatoes, chilli, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, turmeric and chilli powder. Cook for 3-5 minutes or until aromatic.
- Add the lemon juice and mix until absorbed. Remove from heat and set aside for 30 minutes to cool. Stir in coriander
- While the potato mix is cooling place the chilli, mint and coriander in a food processor (or mortar and pestle) and process until finely chopped. Add the yoghurt and lemon juice and process until combined.
- Use an 11cm-diameter round cutter to cut out 16 discs from the pastry. Cut each disk in half to make a semi-circle. Place two teaspoonfuls of the potato mixture in the centre of the pastry. Fold the pastry over to enclose the filling and make a triangle shape. Press the edges of the pastry with a fork to seal.
- Heat oil in medium saucepan and carefully add 2-3 samosas at a time to avoid overcrowding the pan and cook each side until golden brown.
- Drain samosas on paper towel before serving with raita.