Onion samosa recipe

Simple Onion stuffed pastry sheets
Ingredients
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 1/2 cup maida
- salt to taste
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1/8 cup oil
- 4 large onions (sliced)
- salt to taste
- 1/8 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- 1/8 tsp garam masala
- 1 pinch chaat masala
- 2 tbsp maida
- water (to make it a thick paste)
Instructions
- 1
--- For making sheets ---
- 2
Mix in the wheat flour, maida, salt and oil in a bowl. Start kneading it to a smooth soft dough adding water.
- 3
close it with a damp cloth and rest it for 30 minutes.
- 4
After 30 minutes, work the dough again and cut equal portions of it.
- 5
Work each portion to a ball and dust enough to spread it out to a thin elongated disc
- 6
Cut a rectangle of it. prepare all the balls to sheets the same way.
- 7
--- For the onion filling ---
- 8
Heat oil and fry the sliced onions with salt until transparent.
- 9
Add turmeric, chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala and chaat masala.
- 10
Fry until raw smell leaves. Onion filling is ready.
- 11
--- To stuff the filling onto the sheets ---
- 12
Fold the sheet thrice from one corner to other and vice versa to make it a triangle. Watch the video for better idea.
- 13
Fill in the onion masala into it.
- 14
Apply maida paste on the corners of the remaining sheet.
- 15
fold it gently and secure all the ends by pressing it once.
- 16
--- Deep fry samosas ---
- 17
Prepare all the samosas by filling onion masala.
- 18
Heat oil in a kadai and when it is hot, put the samosas in. 3-4 at a time depending upon the kadai size.
- 19
Turn sides often and Deep fry until golden brown.
- 20
Take it out and serve hot !
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