Happy Monday Family!
I hope you had a lovely weekend. We celebrated my brother's birthday this past weekend and Mama insisted that we make platters. Now, what is a platter without samosas? Just like most, I dread the long process of making them from scratch, but I absolutely love them. So I had to figure out a cheap way to make them. Try this out:
Ingredients:
1 roll frozen pastry (R12 - R15)
100g cooked mince/ground beef
50g grated cheddar cheese
Oil to fry
1 egg
Method:
Thaw/defrost the pastry b either leaving it in the fridge (not freezer) overnight or leave it out for two hours before use.
Cook the mince as you normally would. To each their own, mince is personal! LOL. Actually, you can replace this with any filling of your choice, chicken, veggies, tofu... whatever you like!
Flour your surface and carefully unroll the pastry. Leave the plastic on one side and place the uncovered side on the floured surface.
Using a rolling pin, roll from the center in both directions until your pastry forms a square shape with 4 equal sides. Be careful not t make it too thin.
Use a sharp knife to cut two straight vertical lines down so that you have 3 equal sheets of pasty, then cut another 2 horizontal lines. You should now have 9 little squares.
Work with one square at a time. Flour a smaller surface when you will be folding your samosas.
Cut a diagonal line in the middle of the square to form 2 triangles, egg wah both triangles.
Scoop a teaspoon full of mince and place in the center of 1 triangle and add a pinch of cheese (do not overfill). Bring the 2 ends of the triangle together to fold into a smaller triangle with enveloping the filling inside. Use your fingers to seal those two ends and then grab a fork to press down the sides to form a seal. The oil must not be able to get inside the samosa.
9. Repeat steps 6 through 8 until you've folded all 18 samosas. Preheat the oil on high heat until it begins to boil. Without overfilling your pan/pot (don't pack the samosas on top of each other while cooing), shallow-fry each side until it is golden brown. each side should take about 2 to 4 minutes to co based on the thickness of the pastry. Alternatively, you can deep fry for about 3 to 5 minutes or until golden brown.
10. Place on a paper towel and leave to cool. Then serve as desired!
On the blog this Friday, I'll teach y'all how to make fried bacon-filled mashed potato balls! I can't wait!