How To Prepare Potli Samosa Recipe

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Samosa is a hot favourite snack item, which is very popular in North India. We have often tried triangle-shaped samosas. However, this time, let's try a different kind of a samosa recipe that looks different and also when you keep it in front of the guests, they'd definitely find it to be very exotic and fancy.

The filling is always done with a potatoes and peas mixture, but you can also swap it with corn and cheese or may be with mixed veggies and paneer. So, try this samosa and surprise everyone.

Prep Time

20 Mins

Cook Time

30M

Total Time

50 Mins

Recipe By: Pooja Gupta

Recipe Type: Snacks

Serves: 2-3

Ingredients

• For making dough:

  Dough

  Maida (all-purpose flour) - 1 cup

  Salt - ¼th tsp

  Oil or ghee - 2-2.5 tbsp

  Oil - to fry the samosas

  For stuffing:

  Potato - 2 medium (boiled)

  Green peas - ¼th cup

  Paneer - 1.5-inch square piece

  Cashew nuts - 4-5 (chopped)

  Raisins - 1 tbsp

  Green chilli - 1 (finely chopped)

  Salt - ¼th tsp

  Red chilli powder - less than ¼th tsp

  Garam masala - less than ¼th tsp

  Green coriander - 2 tbsp (finely chopped)

How to Prepare

• 1. Add salt and oil in maida (all-purpose flour).
  2. Pour water to knead the dough.
  3. Knead the dough for 3-4 minutes, until it becomes soft.
  4. Cover the dough and keep it for 20 minutes, so that it gets fermented.
  5. Meanwhile, prepare the stuffing for the samosa.
  6. Preheat a pan with 1-2 tsp of oil.
  7. Peel the potatoes and mash them finely.
  8. Add green chillies, peas in the pan and cook for 2 minutes.
  9. Mash the peas as well. Also, add the mashed potatoes, paneer chunks, cashew nuts, raisins, coriander powder, red chilli powder, salt, garam masala and green coriander in the pan.
  10. Cook for 2-3 minutes. Stuffing for the samosas is ready.
  11. Knead the dough more to make it softer.
  12. Make small balls out of the dough. 8-10 balls can be prepared with this much quantity of the dough.
  13. Cover the balls with a cloth, so that they don't get dried up.
  14. Take one ball and roll it and make sure it doesn't become much thin.
  15. Take the puri in your hand and place 1-1.5 tsp stuffing in the center.
  16. Now, apply little water at the corners of the puri and give it a shape of a potli.
  17. Seal it from all sides very carefully.
  18. Now, take a pan to heat oil.
  19. Place 3-4 samosas or as many as possible at a time and fry them on medium flame, till they get golden brown in colour.
  20. Take out the fried samosas in a plate.
  21. Likewise, prepare and fry all the samosas.
  22. Pinning hot potli samosas are ready. Serve with green coriander chutney or tomato sauce.

Instructions

Nutritional Information

• Serves - 1 samosa
• Calories - 80 cal
• Fat - 5 g
• Protein - 1 g
• Carbohydrates - 8 g
• Sugar - 0 g
• Dietary fibre - 1 g