Cone Samosa – Rainy Day Treat

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/8 tsp carom seeds
• 1/8 tsp crushed black pepper corns
• 4 tsp hot oil
• 1/4 tsp salt
• Oil to deep fry samosa
• Water as required to knead a tight dough
• Make Maida slurry – a thick paste
• 2 big size potatoes
• 1/2 tsp ginger chilli paste
• 1/8 tsp asafoetida
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp red chili powder
• 1/4 tsp garam masala
• 1/2 tsp crushed coriander
• 1/4 tsp crushed saunf
• 1/8 tsp aamchur powder
• 2 tsp corn flour
• 2 tsp rice flour
• 1/2 tsp powdered sugar
• 2 tsp chopped coriander
• 1 tsp oil
• 1/4 tsp jeera
• 4 curry leaves
• 2 tsp thin besan sev

Steps

1. Take a bowl, add maida, salt, hot oil, carom seeds, crushed black pepper. Mix well. Knead a dough, pour water as required. Dough should be tight. Keep aside for 15 minutes to set.
2. In a bowl, mash potatoes add salt, sugar, asafoetida, garam masala, turmeric powder, red chili powder, ginger chili paste, aamchur, crushed coriander and fennel seeds. Mix well.
3. Now add corn flour and rice flour combine well. Take a pan add jeera and curry leaves.
4. Saute chopped coriander. Add potato mixture, combine all together. Turn off gas.
5. Make equal size of dough balls. Roll a big roti. Just roast for a while on a tawa, heated on lower flame of the gas to remove moisture. Take out to griddle.
6. Cut in 4 halves. Give a cone shaped.Make slurry by adding water as required to make paste or slurry to stick cone edges. Apply maida paste to seal it. Fill potato mixture in the cone. On the top coat it with maida paste. Make all cone samosa in the same way.
7. Heat oil in a deep frying pan, fry all samosa in batches on low to medium flame. Fry until turns crispy and golden brown in colour. Transfer on a kitchen towel to absorb excess oil.
8. Coat it with green chutney, tomato ketchup and thin besan sev on the top of cone samosa. This garnishing is really tempting.
9. Serve warm samosa with green coriander chutney, tomato ketchup, and mint ginger masala tea.
10. Enjoy a rainy day of monsoon season with cone samosa.