Recipe...
Samosa filling
About 2 tbs. of olive oil. Traditionally, ghee is used but i'm not traditional, so…
So take an onion and chop it up. Take a couple cloves of garlic, mince 'em up. Take a little ginger, chop it up. About a tsp. Oh, I remove the ginger skin, too. Take a large potato or a couple small potatoes (about a pound). Chop into cubes, like about half an inch or so. get a bag of frozen organic peas, open it, and take out a cup of them. You will need a pinch of the following: chili powder, mustard seeds, cumin & corriander (both ground), tumeric, salt. Put the onions & ginger in the oil, which should be hot. Stir and cook till softened a bit. 5 or so minutes. Put the rest of the crap in now. Stir. Add a tablespoon of lemon juice and and couple tablespoons of water. Stir somemore. Cook another 5 or so minutes, maybe a little longer. Take off the stove and allow to cool.
Pastry!
2 cups AP flour, pinch of salt, stick of organic butter that's cool, but not extremely firm (i.e. cold). A little less than half a cup of extremely cold water, even iced water. Egg yolk, beaten.
O, let's see…Put the flour and salt in a bowl and mix in the butter with your hands, rub it in until the flour is, like, crumbly. Add about half the water and keep mixing, adding more water until you have a nice soft dough…you may not knead all the water (ha,ha…see what I did there?) or you may knead a little more (again! goddamn, I'm a funny fucking cook). Once you got yourself a nice soft dough, knead it briefly (proper usage. not funny at all). Now roll out the dough flat and cut into circles about the size and shape of DVDs. Make a stack of them, putting plastic wrap between them and chill for awhile in the fridge, oh, about 20 minutes.
Pull out and stick a couple spoonfulls of the filling in the center of the pastries, fold over and seal with a little egg yolk. If you seal them with a fork, it's prettier. Arrage on flat sheets and brush tops with a little more egg yolk and bake about 15 or 20 minutes.
BAM! Samosas!
The rice is just long grain rice made with salt, ground pepper, oil, and thinly slice onions and bell peppers…..
