To make the samosas, you'll need just a few ingredients. 1 package of refrigerated pie crust dough, 1/2 yellow onion diced, olive oil, 1-3 tsp curry powder, 1/2 package frozen peas (thawed), and 1/2 package refrigerated mashed potatoes. First sautee the onions in some olive oil until translucent (about 8 minutes) and then add the curry powder plus salt & pepper to taste. Mix in the peas, stir in the mashed potatoes, and you have something that looks like this:
Curry Samosa filling
Next roll out your pie crust into a big circle, and use a pizza cutter to make 6 equal size triangles.
Samosa dough (i.e., pie crust)
Dab a good size blob of curry potato mixture into each triangle, wet the edges, then bring them all together into a point, creasing the edges as you go. You should end up with a cookie sheet full of samosa's.
Unbaked samosas
Next brush some egg wash on the outside, and load those babies into a 375 F degree oven for 25 minutes, until golden brown.
Finished samosas
Next up is the Indian itself. I have shortcuts (mostly trader joes), and this makes Indian easy. Just buy a box of whatever flavor Indian suites your palate, simmer up some chicken breast pieces in some Trader Joe's Marsala simmer sauce, add the boxed lentil-typed mixture, and cook on medium until the chicken is cooked throughout, and everything else is combined and warm.
Cooking up some Indian
Finally, in a food processor, combine 1 cup cilantro leaves, 1/2 cup mint leaves, 2 jalapeno's seeded, 4 cloves of garlic, juice of 1/2 a lemon, salt to taste, and 1 container of plain yogurt. Puree until smooth.
Tasty mint chutney.
As a very last step, toast up some Naan from the Trader Joe's freezer section, microwave some organic brown rice (also TJ's freezer section) and you're ready to dip away. That is how you eat some Indian when you're at home craving the taste of a city when you're nowhere near one!
Indian = dinner
1 comment:
Oh! I like your plates! :)
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