Authentic South Indian Samosa

Home Made Samosas

When I came home from work yesterday, I was surprised with some fried samosa that my wife had cooked earlier in the day. Samosa is a traditional South Indian cuisine that has been made popular by Indian immigrants when they immigrated to different parts of the world. So, it is not wrong to consider samosa as a cuisine that is synonymous to ethnic Indians just as roti, dosa and chapati. In fact, the samosa is quite similar to the Malay curry puff, especially the recipe for stuff that is filled into the curry puffs.

Samosas with Spring Roll Wrappers

Instead of making the wrapping sheets from scratch, my wife used the spring roll flour wrapper for the samosa she cooked. In its original recipe the samosa's wrapper is also made from knead dough, just like making the curry puff. When she used the spring roll wrapper, the focus was basically on preparing the fillings. And the stuffed fillings were prepared with potatoes, green peas, onions, curry powder and salt. First, boil the potatoes. Then, fry the mash potatoes in a hot pan with three spoons of cooking oil, garnished with a handful of green peas, half bulb of chopped onions, two spoons of curry powder and one spoon of table salt.

Hot Spicy Samosa

Transfer the curry mash potato to a serving bowl and allow to cool. Scoop two or three spoons of the curry mash potato onto a sheet of the spring roll wrapping sheet and then fold into a triangle. To stick the edges or ends of the wrapping sheets so that it would not open when frying, use egg yolk as glue. Once the samosa are all wrapped, fry them in a pot of hot cooking oil. Making the samosa with spring roll wrappers are so much easier and neater compared to kneading flour. And when fried, the spring roll wrapper becomes crispy and flavourful.