Nikitasa Mishra
8 min readOct 8, 2023

Samosa Recipe (Classic Potato Filled Punjabi Samosa)

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Flaky and crunchy broiled Samosa are one of the most well known road food nibble in North Indian cooking. They highlight a baked good like outside however are loaded up with exquisite and flavored potato and green peas for a generous, scrumptious tidbit. This bit by bit recipe guide will assist you with making the flakiest, most delectable, totally best Punjabi Samosa or Aloo Samosa without any preparation!

About Samosa Recipe
What makes this the best hand crafted samosa recipe? My idiot proof guidelines will ensure that your potatoes and peas samosa are generous with an entirely flaky, fresh outside layer.

I utilize a piece less water than a few different recipes to make my mixture, which makes a consistently flakier and long for capable samosa hull. (This is likewise the stunt I use to make samosa pie, which is an extraordinary non-broiled option in contrast to customary samosa.)

Besides, the filling in these Punjabi Samosa is simply awesome. It's really simple to plan in a burner pressure cooker or utilizing a Moment Pot and in a dish on the oven.

Green peas and potatoes are mixed with exemplary Indian flavors for a warm, fulfilling stuffing that will keep you needing more.

With an ideal outside and consoling filling, this recipe is a genuine victor! Check it out and you'll be astonished at how basic and fun it is to make samosa recipe without any preparation at home.

Our undisputed top choice is and will constantly be a Punjabi Samosa which is what's genuinely going on with this recipe.

Step by step instructions to Make Samosa
The following is my finished bit by bit guide for making the best Punjabi Samosa recipe without any preparation.

You start by making the flavorful filling and baked good mixture. Then, at that point, collect the Aloo Samosa, broil, and appreciate with your most loved plunging sauces and chutneys!

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Cook the Veggies
1. The initial step is to cook the potatoes and peas for the appetizing and flavored filling.

To cook the potatoes and peas in a burner pressure cooker: Spot 3 medium-sized entire potatoes (300 to 450 grams) and 2 to 2.5 cups water in a 3 or 4 liter tension cooker. On top of the potatoes painstakingly set a little trivet and tension cooker-safe bowl with ½ cup green peas. Pressure cook for 5 to 6 whistles or 7 to 8 minutes on medium to medium-high fire.

If utilizing a Moment Pot: Spot 3 medium-sized entire potatoes in the steel supplement of a 6 quart IP. Add 2 cups water. Put a trivet on top of the potatoes, and on top of the trivet set a bowl with ½ cup of green peas. Pressure cook on high for 20 to 25 minutes.

2. For the burner pressure cooker, eliminate the top after all the strain falls in the cooker.

For the Moment Pot, do a speedy strain discharge following 5 to 7 minutes. Check with a blade or fork to check whether the potatoes are cooked well.

The blade or fork ought to have the option to slide through effectively assuming that the potatoes are cooked appropriately.

On the off chance that the potatoes are half-cooked, cook them for a couple of additional minutes utilizing the tension cook capability. Once finished, channel the potatoes and peas in a colander and put away to cool.

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Dish and Powder Flavors
3. Then, dish or toast the flavors. This will assist with delivering their flavors and ought not be skipped!

To a little griddle over low intensity add the accompanying flavors:

½ inch cinnamon stick
1 clove, discretionary
1 green cardamom
3 dark peppercorns

½ teaspoon cumin seeds
½ teaspoon fennel seeds
2 teaspoons coriander seeds
Heat the flavors for only a couple of moments until fragrant, being mindful so as to not consume.

4. Eliminate the flavors from the intensity and permit to totally cool. Then, put them in a zest processor or little blender processor container.

5. Grind the toasted flavors to a semi-fine powder, and put away.

Tip: In the event that you are in a hurry to meal and drudgery the flavors, I have an answer for you.

Blend 2 teaspoons ground coriander (coriander powder), ½ teaspoon ground cumin (cumin powder), ½ teaspoon ground fennel (fennel powder) and ½ teaspoon garam masala powder in a little bowl.

Add this pre-arranged flavor blend at stage 9 when the green peas and it are added to remain ground flavors.

Make Potato Stuffing
6. Strip the skin off of the cooked potatoes, and cleave them in ½ to 1 inch 3D squares.

7. In a little skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil. At the point when the oil becomes medium hot then diminish the intensity to low.

Snap ½ teaspoon cumin seeds until fragrant. I utilized mustard oil as it truly adds a punch in the stuffing.

You can utilize impartial oil like sunflower oil, safflower oil, grapeseed oil or canola oil.

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8. Keep the intensity on low and add 1 teaspoon finely hacked or minced ginger and 2 teaspoons finely cleaved green chillies. Sauté for a couple of moments until the crude smell of ginger disappears.

9. Presently you can turn off the fire or hold fire to a low. Then add the cooked green peas, ½ teaspoon red bean stew powder, 1 spot of asafoetida (hing), the dry ground flavor blend that we made and 1 to 2 teaspoons dry mango powder (amchur).

The mango powder gives the Punjabi Samosa filling mark tart flavor offsets so well with the exquisite, zesty kinds of the other stuffing fixings.

10. Mix together and sauté briefly. You can add less or more dry mango powder contingent on private taste.

I added 2 teaspoons as only 1 teaspoon was not exactly sufficient sharp flavor for me.

11. Next add potato 3D shapes, salt as required and 1 tablespoon hacked coriander leaves (otherwise called cilantro) to the skillet.

12. Blend well indeed and sauté briefly. Really take a look at the taste, and add a greater amount of the flavors, salt or dry mango powder if necessary.

Cover and put the filling to the side while you make the batter.

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Make Samosa Cake Batter
13. In an enormous blending bowl consolidate 2 cups regular baking flour (250 grams), 1 teaspoon carom seeds, 1 teaspoon salt and 6 tablespoons ghee (50 grams).

14. With your fingers, combine the fixings as one until they make a breadcrumb-like surface that holds its shape when you press a piece of the blend.

15. Then, at that point, working somewhat at a time, add in 7 to 8 tablespoons water in parts and massage.

You can add 1 to 2 tablespoons additional water if necessary assuming the batter looks floury or dry.

16. Keep massaging to frame a firm, close batter. It ought not be delicate or tacky. Cover the mixture with a damp kitchen towel and let rest for 30 minutes.

On the off chance that in the event that your batter turns out to be excessively soggy or tacky, add a couple of tablespoons of flour. Blend and work again to a firm batter.

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Gather and Shape
17. After the batter has rested, partition it into 6 to 7 even pieces. Take each piece and tenderly roll in your palms first to smooth and mellow. Put it on your work surface or on the moving board.

18. Then, at that point, roll it with a moving pin, being careful to keep the thickness even at 1 mm and not excessively meager.

19. Cut the with a blade or a cake shaper, directly through the focal point of the moved baked good batter.

20. Utilize a moving pin to tenderly level the half moon shape to make even.

21. Utilize a cake brush to brush the batter with water around each of the edges gently.

22. Then, overlay to join the straight edged side together to frame a cone, as displayed in the photograph beneath. Make certain to press the edges well with the goal that they are fixed!

The cone is presently fit to be loaded down with the potato and pea filling.

23. Cautiously spoon and gently pack the pre-arranged potato and pea stuffing into the cone.

Make a point to not finished or under-fill to keep the samosa from blasting during the broiling system.

24. Pleat and squeeze the edges to close as displayed in photograph underneath. This assists the samosa with standing once made.

25. Equitably press the edges, ensuring there are all no breaks in the mixture. The edges ought to be fixed very well so the stuffing doesn't emerge while searing.

Set up all the samosa this way as portrayed above, and cover with a clammy kitchen napkin to hold them back from drying out.

Profound Fry
The last move toward making the best samosa is to broil them to a completely fresh brilliant brown.

Utilize any nonpartisan enhanced oil to profound fry - sunflower oil, canola oil, vegetable oil, safflower oil, grapeseed oil are a few choices.

26. Heat the oil for profound broiling in a kadai or container. Test the oil by adding a little piece of batter - it ought to come up rapidly in the event that the oil is hot enough for broiling.

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When the oil becomes medium-hot, tenderly slide 3 to 4 of the pre-arranged stuffed samosas into the oil, and afterward promptly decrease the intensity to low.

Try not to pack the container to guarantee every single one of them fries uniformly!

27. Broil them on low to medium-low intensity, watching out for them so they don't consume.

28. At the point when one side is pale brilliant, use utensils or an opened spoon or skimmer to delicately turn every samosa over and sear.

This way you should turn two or multiple times for cooking. Be delicate and cautious while turning them as they are weighty and oil can pour out.

Broiling these take a great deal of time, so you must be quiet and patient!

29. Broil until each aloo samosa is fresh and brilliant. The oil will quit sizzling once the samosas are seared well. They will turn out to be pleasantly fresh and brilliant.

30. Utilize a skimmer spoon or bug spoon to painstakingly eliminate broiled samosa from the oil, and put them on paper towels to eliminate additional oil.

Rehash the broiling ventures with the excess groups of Aloo Samosa. Decrease the intensity when you start to broil the following clusters. Manage the intensity depending on the situation while broiling the samosas.

31. Serve Punjabi Samosa hot or warm or at room temperature with Coriander Chutney or Tamarind Chutney, or with a lively ketchup.

Enjoy 😋

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Nikitasa Mishra
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