6-Lentils Samosa

Name: How to cook 6-Lentils Samosa - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Lekha Toraskar

6-Lentils Samosa

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Ingredient

Food ration :

4 servings

Cooking time :

30-35 minutes

1 bowl

whole lentils soaked overnight & pressure cooked for 3 whistles (brown chickpeas, green gram, moth bean, butter beans, red gram, black-eyed beans)

1 bowl

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

For the samosa cover mix 1 bowl maida, salt as per taste, 1/4th bowl semolina, 3-4 tbsp oil, 1 tsp kalonji, water as per the requirement to make a thick dough. Keep it aside.

* Step 2

For the filling, heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan. Add 1 tsp cumin seeds and let them crackle. Add 1 bowl of the whole lentils and mix well.

* Step 3

Add 1 bowl spinach leaves. One spinach cooks partly add 1 tbsp red chilli powder, 1/2 tsp garam masala, 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp cumin coriander seeds powder, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp raw mango powder, salt as per taste. Let the spinach cook. Once cooked, remove from flame and let the filling cool.

* Step 4

Make 4 balls from the samosa cover dough. Roll it in the palm to first make a smooth ball.

* Step 5

Then roll it using a rolling pin keeping the thickness neither thick nor thin. Cut using a cutter through the center of the samosa pastry.

* Step 6

Then make another thin strip from the dough and cut through the center as shown in the picture.

* Step 7

Take a sliced pastry. Place the filling in the center. Keep one thin strip on the filling and seal from all sides using wheat flour and water paste.

* Step 8

Give same number of slanting cuts on both the sides of the filling. Apply wheat flour & water mixture on the cuts.

* Step 9

Pick one strip from the left and place on the sealed filling, then place one from the right. Repeat for all the strips. Give the shape of a tail to the last strip. This will give it a shape of fish.