Homemade Hyderabadi Irani samosas

This recipe makes 15 samosas

Ingredients:

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For the dough

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• Atta/Wheat flour - 100 grams
• Maida/All purpose flour - 100 grams
• Salt - 1 teaspoon
• Oil - 2 tablespoon
• Water

For the filling

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• Onion,chopped - 3 large
• Poha/Puffed rice - 100 grams
• Chat masala - 1/4 teaspoon
• turmeric powder - a pinch
• Red chilli powder - 1/2 teaspoon
• Coriander powder - 1 teaspoon
• Jeera powder - 1 teaspoon
• Salt to taste
• Coriander leaves - finely chopped,4 tablespoon
• oil - 3 tablespoon

For making samosas

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Maida paste - Add little water to 5 tablespoon of maida and mix well to form a paste.the paste need not be very thick.

Method:

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For the sheets:

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• Mix atta,maida,salt,oil in a wide open vessel.Add water little by little and knead well to form a soft dough.
• Set aside for 20 min.
• Make round balls from the dough which is of diameter,say 4 cm.
• Spread the dough using a roller into a very thin sheet as we do for romali roti.Sprinkle maida flour onto the sheet as you roll to avoid sticking.
• Cut the edges to form a rectangular shape.You can make two sheets from each ball.

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• Heat the tava on medium flame and place the sheet on it.
• When you see one or two dots,flip to the other side.Remove from the tava when you see dots in this side too.

• Do not allow brown dots to appear.Just heat it on both sides so that it becomes like pastry sheets.

Sheets are ready for making samosa.

For the filling:

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• Mix all the ingredients well.

• Heat a kadai,add oil .When its hot add the ingredients .
• Saute well till the onions turn light brown.

Filling is ready.Set aside to cool it down to room temperature.

Making the samosa:

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• Apply little paste along one side of the sheet.(along any length side of the rectangular sheet)[Fig A]
• Start folding it from end to form a cone.[Fig B]

Step by Step pics to form a cone is shown below.

• Add 2 to 3 tablespoon of filling into the cone.Do not over stuff it.
• Close the top portion ,applying little paste to form a triangle.(as shown in fig.C)

Finally the Samosas.........................

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• Heat a kadai in high flame and pour oil into it.
• When its hot,reduce the flame to medium and drop two to three samosas at a time.
• Fry for few sec and turn over and cook the other side.

• When the samosas turn golden brown ,take them off and place onto a tissue paper to absorb the excess oil.

Yummy samosas are ready for a tea time snack.