Chicken Samosa

Chicken Samosa

About

Samosas  are made differently in Malabar(Kerala,South India) from made in other parts of the country. They are usually tiny and slim compared to Punjabi samosas. And they use beef or chicken filling mostly instead of veggies. I am not used to Beef,so i made it with chicken.
Recipe for a samosa is pretty simple. It's the process that takes time. Back home all of us get together to make them which made the process faster.
Normally I split this process into two days - make filling on day one and complete the rest on day two.
This recipe will make about 30-40 samosas (depending on the size)

Ingredients

Samosa Filling
Chicken	1
Large Onions	2
inch ginger	2
garlic	4 Cloves
mint leaves without stem - finely chopped	1 Bunch
coriander leaves without stem - finely chopped	1 Bunch
ground pepper	2 Tablespoons
ground garam masala	2 Tablespoons
vegetable oil	2-3 Tablespoons
Salt as required	—
Samosa Cover Dough
All purpose flour	2 Cups
ghee - as it is.	1 Tablespoon
Salt as required	—
Warm Water	—

Preparation Steps

1 Boil chicken with some water, black pepper and salt. Once cooked take it off and let cool.
2 Pluck out meat from the chicken. In a food processor, whizz the meat couple of times. Do not over shred it. If you don't have a processor, chop them with a knife. It's best not to use a grinder.
3 Finely chop onions, ginger, garlic and green chillies. Or to make it easier, whizz them all together in a food processor.
4 In a frying pan, heat oil and add ground garam masala.
5 When it sizzles, add chopped onion, ginger, garlic and green chillies. Saute until onions are translucent.
6 Add shredded chicken, salt and ground black pepper. Let them cook for couple of minutes.
7 Later add chopped mint and coriander leaves. Stir and mix well. Cook for a minute or two and take it off heat.
8 Let the filling cool when you are getting the dough ready.
9 In a bowl, mix flour, ghee and salt. Add water slowly and mix until you get a smooth, soft dough. Adding ghee is what makes my samosas crispy. Something I learnt from my in-laws. :) Use ghee as it is, do not heat or melt.
10 Divide the dough into equal portions - roughly the size of a golf ball. Dust your work space with enough flour and roll out a circle.
11 Cut the circle in halves from both sides to get four triangles.
12 Take one of the triangles with the curved side facing you.
13 Fold the left side inwards, dab water on it.
14 Dab water on the right side and fold it in and seal both sides to get a cone. Make sure to pinge the bottom of the cone well so that it seals properly (otherwise oil will enter the samosa).
15 Pick up the cone and hold it as shown in the photo.
16 Fill in the masala (filling).
17 Tuck in the masala properly. Do not overfill as it might break while frying.
18 Dab water on all edges. Fold the pointed edge in (towards you) to complete the 'triangle'. Pinge the sides well and seal properly. Dab more water if required. Not too much!
19 There you go, your samosa is ready to be fried!
20 A trick to get perfect circles and samosas all the time - Just like the first step above, roll the dough. Do not worry about the edges or shape. Just keep rolling and make sure insides of the circle is thin.
21 On top of the circle, keep a stainless steel lid or any circular dish. Press hard and with your knife draw around the circle and scrape off the extra dough.
22 Tada! you get a perfect circle, which means perfect little samosas all the time! :)
23Once all your samosas are ready, heat about two cups of oil in a wok or deep bottomed pan and fry them in batches of three to four, until golden on both sides.
24Notes You can chill or freeze uncooked samosas for later. Chill them if you are going to use them in couple of days.
25 If not, freeze. Just make sure you line your container with baking paper and sprinkle some flour so that samosas don't stick to each other. When you want to fry them, just take them out and fry directly. Thawing isn't necessary.