Try this delectable Vegetable Samoosa Recipe with a mint and yoghurt dipping sauce.
This recipes serves 6 – 8.
Ingredients
For the samoosa filling:
- 250 g portabellini or button mushrooms, finely chopped
- ½ onion, finely diced
- 1 Tbsp Cape Malay style curry powder
- 2 cloves garlic, grated
- 1 Tbsp ginger, grated
- 1 fresh chilli, seeded and minced
- ½ cup fresh or frozen peas
- 2 Tbsp fresh coriander
- 2 tsp fresh lemon juice
- 2 medium potatoes, boiled, peeled and roughly mashed
- Salt and pepper, to taste
For the samoosa itself:
- 500g samoosa pur/ pastry
- ½ cup flour
For the dipping sauce:
- ½ cup mint leaves
- ¼ cup fresh coriander
- ½ small tomato
- ¼ small onion
- 2 Tbsp plain yoghurt
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp sugar
- Pinch of sea salt
- Water as needed
Additional:
- Neutral oil for frying
How To Make Veggie Samoosas – Method
How to make the dipping sauce:
- Combine all ingredients and blend together until smooth, adding enough cold water to help things blend to a smooth and saucy consistency.
- Set aside in the fridge for serving.
How to make samoosas:
- Heat a drizzle of love oil in a frying pan. Fry the mushrooms, onion and curry powder until the mushrooms have released all their liquid. Then, add the garlic, ginger, and chilli, and cook until fragrant. Add the peas and cook until just tender.
- Remove from the heat and add the coriander, lemon juice, mashed potatoes, and season. Mix well.
- Whisk the flour with some water in a small bowl to form a smooth spreadable paste.
- Holding a strip of pastry in your left hand, pull the bottom corners one after the other across and up to form a triangle and a pocket at the base of the pastry in which to put the filling.
- Fill with a spoonful of filling, then continue folding the pastry until you have sealed off the opening and have a neat triangle.
- Seal the final edge by dipping your finger in the flour paste, spreading a small amount on the pastry and then sealing tightly.
- Heat neutral oil in a large pan.
- Fry the samoosas until golden brown, turning often to keep the colour even.
- Remove and drain on a paper towel.
- Serve with the mint dipping sauce and enjoy!
Vegetable Samoosa Recipe Notes
This Vegetable Samoosa Recipe is courtesy of the South African Mushroom Farmers’ Association (SAMFA), a group of farmers who grow and love mushrooms.
They share their passion by promoting all varieties of mushrooms, creating unique recipes that showcase the many flavour profiles of mushrooms, and engaging in charity campaigns that make the world a better place.
Why mushrooms?
These powerful little foods are packed with nutrients and fibres, have very few calories, and are an excellent source of plant protein. If spiced right, they even make a great meat replacement!
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