AuthorChefLuhCategoryMain Course, Side Dish/SaladDifficultyBeginner
Classic South African style sweet corn samosa, tastes great and loves by vegetarian.
In a large bowl add your flour and salt, mix together to combine.
Add your oil and start mixing it with you hands, rub the flour with oil until its all mixed together and it looks like bread crumbs, this should take you about 3-5 minutes.
Start adding water slowly and knead together until it becomes firm dough and it sticks together. (do not overwork your dough)
Cover your dough with a damp cloth and let it rest for 30 minutes.
In a saucepan, add your cooking oil and put on medium heat. Once hot add your onions, garlic and ginger. Cook for 5 minutes or until your onions turn brown and soft. Stir occasionally.
Add your curry powder and masala mix. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until the spices are fragrant.
Add 2 tablespoons water from the sweetcorn and mix well until the mixture starts to simmer.
Add your sweetcorn and stir it in. Cover your saucepan and let it cook in low heat for 5 minutes.
Remove your saucepan from heat and let it cool down. Once cool enough add your cheese and mix it together. Add salt to season
Sprinkle about a teaspoon of flour on a flat counter place your dough and begin to roll it flat out about 1 cm thick. Rub some flour on your hands to make it easier to work your dough.
Cut out circles of your dough using a cup. Take a single cut out circle dough and roll it out to flatten it until thin and in the shape of a wide circle. Cut your circle in half.
Take one half and apply water on one edge of the dough so to be able to seal it. Now bring the two ends of the straight edge together and pinch them to form a cone. Pinch the corner of the cone so that its sealed.
Fill your cone dough with 1tbsp of your filling. brush the inside of the open side of your cone with water and pinch the edges together to seal it up.
Place it on a plate and cover with a damp cloth while your continue the process until all your dough is used up.
Add a ¼ of oil in a deep saucepan, Place on high heat. To test if the oil is hot enough, add a tiny piece of dough to the oil and if it bubbles and floats on the surface, your oil is ready for frying.
Fry your Samoosa until it is golden brown. Remove with a slotted spoon and place on paper towels to drain.
Serve and enjoy!
Serving Size 1 Samoosa
Servings 10
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 241
Ingredients
Directions
In a large bowl add your flour and salt, mix together to combine.
Add your oil and start mixing it with you hands, rub the flour with oil until its all mixed together and it looks like bread crumbs, this should take you about 3-5 minutes.
Start adding water slowly and knead together until it becomes firm dough and it sticks together. (do not overwork your dough)
Cover your dough with a damp cloth and let it rest for 30 minutes.
In a saucepan, add your cooking oil and put on medium heat. Once hot add your onions, garlic and ginger. Cook for 5 minutes or until your onions turn brown and soft. Stir occasionally.
Add your curry powder and masala mix. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until the spices are fragrant.
Add 2 tablespoons water from the sweetcorn and mix well until the mixture starts to simmer.
Add your sweetcorn and stir it in. Cover your saucepan and let it cook in low heat for 5 minutes.
Remove your saucepan from heat and let it cool down. Once cool enough add your cheese and mix it together. Add salt to season
Sprinkle about a teaspoon of flour on a flat counter place your dough and begin to roll it flat out about 1 cm thick. Rub some flour on your hands to make it easier to work your dough.
Cut out circles of your dough using a cup. Take a single cut out circle dough and roll it out to flatten it until thin and in the shape of a wide circle. Cut your circle in half.
Take one half and apply water on one edge of the dough so to be able to seal it. Now bring the two ends of the straight edge together and pinch them to form a cone. Pinch the corner of the cone so that its sealed.
Fill your cone dough with 1tbsp of your filling. brush the inside of the open side of your cone with water and pinch the edges together to seal it up.
Place it on a plate and cover with a damp cloth while your continue the process until all your dough is used up.
Add a ¼ of oil in a deep saucepan, Place on high heat. To test if the oil is hot enough, add a tiny piece of dough to the oil and if it bubbles and floats on the surface, your oil is ready for frying.
Fry your Samoosa until it is golden brown. Remove with a slotted spoon and place on paper towels to drain.
Serve and enjoy!
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