Recipe- Enjoy Rain With Moong Dal Samosa

Thinking about ditching potatoes to stay healthy? Try these moong dal samosas that make it the perfect healthy snack recipe. Samosa is probably the most famous Indian snack in the world. It’s always there on the menu in every Indian restaurant and even those who don’t know much about Indian cuisine would have most probably heard about samosa. The traditional samosa that you would find in every corner of India is filled with a spicy potato filling and nothing else.

Ingredients

For Samosa Pastry

2 cups of refined flour (sifted)
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons oil
Cold water, to knead

For Filling

3 cups of green gram (moong dal, husked), soaked
2 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
⅛ teaspoon asafoetida (hing)
3 teaspoon garam masala
3 teaspoon chilli powder
2 tablespoons fennel seeds (saunf), powdered
2 teaspoon coriander (dhaniya) powder
Salt, to taste
1½ teaspoon mango powder (amchur)

Method

* Grind the lentils coarsely.

* Heat 2 tablespoons of oil and add the cumin seeds (jeera) and asafoetida (hing).

* When they begin to splutter, add the lentils and the rest of the ingredients, which make up the filling.

* Saute over low heat till the mixture is well fried. It will stop sticking to the pan when done.

* Take the mixture off heat and leave to cool.

* Add the salt to the flour, and rub the oil into it.

* Add water and knead into a stiff dough and leave to rest for 15 minutes or so.

* Shape dough into smooth balls, and roll the balls into thin rounds.

* Cut these into halves.

* Take one half, wet the edges, and fold the straight edge at the centre and join by one half overlapping the other to form into a cone.

* Press the overlapping portion, and fill the cone and press the edges together to seal.

* The oil should be hot when you add the samosas to it, then lower the heat and let cook till brown.