Lentil Stuffed Samosas - Dal ke Samose

Samosas make me extremely nostalgic. Not a potato filled ones but rather lentils and meat stuffed samosa which are a known delicacy of the little town I come from. Growing up, any feast or occasion had to include samosa. Mom starts her morning by making pastry from whole wheat flour which is similar to making roti. Two balls of dough are put together pressed at edges and then rolled out thinly. While its cooked on the griddle, the air fills and separates the two layer of pastry that were put together leading to two thin sheets of round pastry.

Then, she makes the filling, slowly cooking the meat or lentils, chopping herbs, onions and eye balling the perfect amount of salt and other spices. We sisters along with mom would sit on a long cloth which is like a table cloth only that its put on the ground instead of on the table in the dining room. Mom watches her daily soaps while her hands as if trained to make samosas worked perfectly in making the samosa pockets and filling them. While she watched and chatted, we sisters would stuff ourselves with the rolled samosa and mom would lightly hit our hands to keep us off. She said it messes up her count. We never listened.

Once more than 100 samosas were rolled up, she would get ready for deep frying them. We would follow her in the kitchen and eat the samosas as they came out of the oil, perfectly crisp, hot and golden. She would ward off us again, complaining how nothing will be left for the guests. We (and the major part of ‘we’ is me) never listened.

And trust me, this are so pathetically moreish, you just won't realize how you eat a dozen. We always had guests asking for second and third servings. And somehow mom had mastered the art of always making enough so guest left satisfied.



Fast forward to mom's dear daughter aka me, as much as I love them, I can't always find time to make everything from scratch. So I rely on frozen spring roll wraps as pastry which works wonderfully well here. My mom won't be very proud but M is. Which works at the moment.

If you are thinking this is going to be difficult, let me tell you, the hands in the step by step tutorial are M's. All these samosas in the picture are rolled by M. I just  had to show him once how to roll them and then he was on his own! I don't know what that says about him (he's more capable in kitchen then I think?) but trust me, if he can make them, you surely can!



I'm sharing the lentils stuffed samosa version at Food Wanderings. Shulie has generously invited me to her fabulous blog. I can't exactly remember how I connected to Shulie, but I remember well how generous in her words, kind in her attitude and encouraging she has always been to me. Her extra ordinary cultural background has always intrigued  me with both of us sharing roots back in India. Please join me on Food Wanderings for the recipe and pictorial of  this triangles of love!

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