‘SAMOSAS' DULCES DE COCO Y GUAVA

Samosas dessert. Something different. Coconut and Guava inside a samosa. Let’s cook.

Ingredients:

Some spring roll pastry

One coconut or some frozen coconut

4 tablespoons sweet guava paste

4 tablespoons sweetened cocoa powder

A teaspoon of vanilla

One egg or some milk

Some confectioner’s sugar

First we will thaw the spring roll pastry that we will need. Leave it thawing on a kitchen cloth. Prepare the coconut. If it is fresh, cut it in little pieces, almost ground. Put the coconut in a container and add the guava paste, the cocoa powder and the vanilla. Mix well.

Now you will have to prepare the pastry. And fill it. First, put a pastry sheet on a wet cloth. Then fold it in half. Now fold the left bottom corner to the top. Next, fold the left top corner to the right bottom corner. With this, you will have a cone which can be hold while you fill it with the filling using your other hand. Then wet the ends of the pastry a bit and close the samosa. Repeat this with the rest of them. Keep them on a wet cloth.

When you have all the samosas ready, put them on an oven tray, slightly greased. Paint them with a beaten egg or with some milk.

Then the only then we have to do is taking the samosas to the oven. Have it preheated to 300ºF. Have them there for about half and hour. When they are ready, you will only have to serve them. Do this adding some confectioner’s sugar. A different dessert. Enjoy!

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SAMOSAS

I love them. Samosas are one of those delicacies from India that everybody should eat at least once in their lives. Although that would be difficult. Eating only one samosa. They are so good. There many kind of samosas. I will cook vegetarian samosas today. But there are with meat too. Let’s start.

Ingredients:

1 potato

¼ onion

4 tablespoons corn

4 tablespoons chopped squash

3 tablespoons red pepper

2 tablespoons green pepper

1 small green chili

1 tablespoon chopped fresh ginger

1 tablespoon chopped garlic

Some vegetable oil

Some spring roll pastry

½ teaspoon cardamom

½ teaspoon garam masala

½ teaspoon cumin

½ teaspoon coriander

½ teaspoon turmeric

½ teaspoon dried cilantro

¼ teaspoon dried mint

½ teaspoon Kashmiri red chili powder

Some salt to taste

Some freshly ground black pepper

I will cook my Samosas with spring roll pastry. It is not the most common way, I know. Normally you should do it with maida dough. But the results are quite good and the Samosas will be crispy. Sometimes samosas are soggy. And these ones will not be. I promise.

First we will cook the potato. Wash it and peel it. Boil it in a pan and reserve. Then prepare and cut the vegetables.

Make sure you have the spring roll pastry ready. We do not want it frozen when we are ready to cook. Keep it on a clean cloth.

Now we will prepare the filling. To do that, heat some vegetable oil in a pan. Then add the onion and the peppers and cook for a couple of minutes. Now add the squash, the garlic, the ginger and the chili. Go on cooking it.

We also have to prepare the spices. Mix and blend them in a mortar. Then add it to the vegetables.

Mash the potatoes lightly. Then add them to the vegetables. We will have the filling ready now.

The next step is filling the samosas. It is not difficult. First, put a pastry sheet on a wet cloth. Then fold it in half. Now fold the left bottom corner to the top. Then fold the left top corner to the right bottom corner. With this, you will have a sort of cone which can be hold while you fill it with the filling using your other hand. Then wet the ends of the pastry a bit and close the samosa. Repeat this with the rest of them. Keep them on a wet cloth.

Heat some oil in a pan. And when it is hot enough, fry the samosas. Do it in several batches if needed. Once fried, leave them on kitchen paper towel because we do not want too much oil.

And the Samosas will be ready. Serve them as a side with an Indian curry. Perfect with a chutney. Enjoy!

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