Thursday, July 26, 2018

Ring Shaped Vegetable Samosas

Samosas, these deep fried beauties are our family favourite and none will say 'no' to these crispy beauties. Am running this week's blogging marathon with A dish with different shape as theme, hence i have been posting different shaped dishes for the past two days. Today is the final post for this theme, hence i opted to our family favourite snacks aka Samosas. Samosas are popular Indian street foods and a prefect evening snacks as well. Usually samosas are shaped as triangles however the usual samosa dough can be rolled as logs and they are called as rolls. Since my theme for this week is a dish with different shape i decided to go with an interesting shaped samosas. And here comes the ring shaped samosas which call for usual samosa dough and a delicious vegetable stuffing.

Vegetable Ring shaped Samosas

Indian samosas are usually vegetarian which is often served with varieties of chutneys. Samosas are served as starter, as chaat food, or else as snacks. Samosas are well known in Arabian Peninsula, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Mediterranean, Indian subcontinent,Horn of Africa, East Africa, South Africa and North Africa. Now samosas are prepared all around the world due to cultural diffusion and emigration. Samosas can be filled with different filling even sweet versions of samosas do exists which calls for dry fruits and milk solids. Coming to my today's post, i prepared samosa as circular ring shaped ones as i want to stick with the theme am running for this week's blogging marathon. This shape is definitely an easiest one as well. If you want to give a surprise to your near ones or guests do prepare these ring shaped samosas and serve them.

Ring Samosa, Vegetable Ring Shaped Samosas

Filling:
3cups Mixed veggies (chopped carrot,potato,green peas,broccoli bellpepper)
1no Onion(big & chopped)
1tsp Red chilly powder
3/4tsp Garam masala powder
Few curry leaves
Chopped coriander leaves
Salt
Oil
1/2tsp Cumin seeds

Heat enough oil,let crack the cumin seeds, add immediately the chopped onions, curry leaves, sauté until the onions turns transculent.

Add the veggies,cook for few minutes,finally add  red chilly powder, garam masala powder and salt, sauté everything for few minutes.

Springle some water, cook everything in simmer until the masala turns thick and veggies gets well cooked,put off the stove,add the chopped coriander leaves and let them get cool completely.

Ring Shaped Vegetable Samosas

Wrap:
2cups Maida 
1/2cup Wheat flour
1/4tsp Baking powder
1/2tsp Cumin seeds
Salt
2tbsp Oil

Paste:
2tbsp Maida
3tbsp water

Take the maida, wheat flour,salt, baking powder, cumin seeds and oil in a bowl, add gradually enough water and knead as soft and stiff dough,keep aside for half an hour.

Make tiny balls from the dough, dust with  flour and roll them as oblong shaped disc.


Drop enough filling at one end of the disc, bring the edge and cover the filling completely. Press the edges well as shown in picture.

Now make slits on the dough as shown in the picture, keep the edges intact.

And roll the dough tightly.

Meanwhile prepare the maida paste by mixing the flour and water together.

Use this maida paste  to stick the edges. Bring both the edges of the log together and seal tightly.

Ring Shaped Samosas

Continue the process until the masala and dough get finished..

Heat enough oil for deepfrying, gently drop the samosas, fry until they turns golden brown.

Enjoy with ketchup or with a cup of tea..


13 comments:

Varada's Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

What a cute shape! Very innovative and so nicely done. Bookmarked! I will try a baked version.

Ritu Tangri said... Reply To This Comment

That looks awesome. A glamorous makeover of our desi samosa 😊

Rafeeda AR said... Reply To This Comment

I wish I was your child, hehe... I would have become fat eating all the yumminess that you cook! These round samosas look so good, beautiful shape!

Ruxana Gafoor said... Reply To This Comment

Wow!These ring shaped samosas look so cute :)

farah saleem said... Reply To This Comment

this is absolutely brilliant!so neat! u have sooooooo much of patience .... well done! hats off to u! i LOVEE this

vaishali sabnani said... Reply To This Comment

Absolutely love these Samosas , what a lovely twist , bookmarking right away .

Srivalli said... Reply To This Comment

wow that looks so sinful Priya, what a fantastic idea. will surely bookmark this..

Harini R said... Reply To This Comment

Cute looking ring samosas. Very innovative too.

cookingwithsapana said... Reply To This Comment

I am surely going to make these ring samosa for my girls.Bookmarking to try

code2cook said... Reply To This Comment

Priya adopt me please, I will die with these samosa cuteness, how will I eat them. so tempting.

shweta said... Reply To This Comment

You surely have talented hands !! I have seen your earlier baked and fried recipes too. Indeed you are best in shaping the dough !!

preeti garg said... Reply To This Comment

honestly I love it.. compare to traditional one... what a wonderful shape.

Chef Mireille said... Reply To This Comment

wow - what a cool way to shape samosas