Samosa | Persian Sambooseh

Samosa, as a food or a finger food, is a very popular and delicious and enjoys a great diversity. It is cooked in so many different regions of the world including South Asia, Western Asia, the Mediterranean and Africa, but it is originally considered to be from India.

There is even an international day specified to this delicious food, which is the fifth of September!

There are many other Persian snacks like Kutlet, kuku sibzamini and kuku sabzi.

Samosa | Persian Sambooseh

Samosa or Persian Samboose can be made by meat, chicken, spinach and potato, the combination of meat and vegetables, and… Potato samosa is one of the most favorite ones, especially because samosa is cooked by frying, and the mashed potato used inside it can moderate the fat and calorie of this food. Although sometimes, fried or grilled potato is also use din making potato samosa.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Course Main Course, Side Dish

Cuisine persian

Servings 5 people

Ingredients

  

• 5 loaves Lavash Bread
• 3 potatoes
• 6 spring onions
• 2 tablespoons coriander
• 2 tablespoons parsley
• 1 cup oil
• ¼ teas spoon turmeric
• Salt and pepper as much as required

Instructions

 

Samosa Filling

• Wash the potatoes. Then let them boil and cook in a pot. Add a little salt and oil to the boiling potatoes.
• Chop onions and fry them in a pan until translucent. Add some turmeric to the onion and stir, then set them aside.
• Let potatoes get cold. Grate or chop them to small pieces.
• Add onion, aromatic herbs (coriander, parsley and chopped spring onion), salt, turmeric and pepper to the grated potatoes and mix. Be careful about salt amount, considering the amount of salt you added to potatoes when boiling.
• Slice Lavash from longitude (if you want bigger samosas) or latitude (if you want smaller ones).Be careful to keep lavash in a plastic or cloth bag to keep it away from air, because it needs to be flexible enough for bending.

Wrapping Lavash Bread Slices

• Imagine the rectangular piece of lavash. Put some of the filling at one corner of this rectangle and fold it in a triangular shape, then keep folding this way until a whole triangle with closed sides is made. If lavash edges are dry, you can wet them with a little water to make them flexible for bending.

Frying Samosa

• The oil needs to fill almost 0.5 cm of the pan. Heat oil for some moments, then put samosa triangles in the pan. Put them on the side that the fold ends. Otherwise, the filling gets out of the bread. Let one side get fried and crispy, then turn it to the other side and let it fry. When samosas are fried, remove them from the pan and put them between layers of a towel or tissue to remove extra oil.

Tips for preparing Samosa (Persian Sambooseh)

• You can add mushrooms and mince beef or sausages to samosa filling. In this case, sauté meat and mushrooms with onions, salt, pepper and turmeric, then add them to the rest of the ingredients.  If you are using sausages, omit pepper from the ingredients.
• Instead of frying, you can cook samosa in oven, which will be less crispy but healthier. In this method, you cover the oven tray with oil paper and put the samosas on it. Don’t forget to rub some oil on samosa’s surface beforehand. Set the oven temperature on 180 centigrade. Let one side grill for almost ten minutes and then turn samosa over for the other side to get cooked.
• Instead of lavash, you can use yufka dough or make dough yourself. For making dough, combine flour and salt. Stir in oil, then stir in warm water. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead until dough is elastic, about 5 minutes. Cover and set aside while preparing filling
• You can buy spices specified to samosa from groceries.

Garnishing, Topping and Serving Samosa

• Samosa is served with different kinds of pickles (Torshi), especially hot ones. Hot tomato sauce or other hot sauces are also served with this food and used for garnishing it.
• Sabzi Khordan and different types of sauce, especially ketchup and mayo are always served next to this dish.

Other forms of Samosa

• Many other ingredients can be used to fill the samosa, sausages, vegetarian ingredients, and many other things.
• tell us if you have ever cooked or served or tried this dish. With which ingredients was it made? We would love to know your experiences!

How to make the samosa dough at home!

Ingredients you need

• Flour 3 units
• Yeast 1 teasp
• Salt a teasp
• Warm water 1 unit
• Vegan oil 1 teasp

What to do with the ingredients?

Mix the yeast and the warm water and let it become activated. Also mix the salt and flour in a bowl and add the activated yeast to the bowl. When the dough is made, knead it with your hands to have an even paste.

Then add the oil and keep kneading. Divide the paste to 12 even pieces and wrap them with plastic then let them rest for an hour in a warm place. The amount will double. Then you can use the dough for the samosas.

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