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- 1 pound (90–95%) lean ground beef
- 1 ½ teaspoon ginger paste
- 1 ½ teaspoon garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon Indian chili powder(or ½ teaspoon cayenne)- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- ½ teaspoon garam masala
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric
- 2 small onion, finely chopped (~10 ounces chopped)
- ½ bunch cilantro, chopped
- 1 Serrano peppers, seeded and minced (sub Jalapeño pepper)
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 28-30 spring roll sheets, cut into 3 pieces
- 1 egg white, whisked
- Oil, for frying - vegetable oil
Instructions
Cook the Beef
Add the ground beef to a sauté pan over medium-high heat.
Cook and crumble the meat for 1 minute then, add 1 cup of water.
Continue to break the ground beef down and cook for 5 minutes or until the meat is almost cooked.
Drain the ground beef in a sieve in the sink, but don’t let it sit in the sieve for too long.
Add Seasoning
Immediately add the ground beef back to the same saucepan. You want it to still have some water so the seasonings combine easily.
Season with salt, chili powder, red pepper flakes garam masala, turmeric, ginger paste, and garlic paste.
Cook over medium-high heat for 3-4 minutes until the seasonings are fragrant and combine with the ground beef. If the mixture is too dry, where the seasonings won't combine, add 1-2 tablespoons of water but make sure you dry the meat out completely.
Remove and allow the beef filling to cool in a bowl
Mix
Once the ground beef is cooled to room temp, add onions, cilantro, serrano, and lemon
juice and toss to combine. Taste and adjust with more salt to preference.
Wrap
Paste
- 2 tbs flour
- 1 egg yoke
- Add 2 tablespoons of ground beef to the pocket of the spring roll sheets.
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- Do a 2-ply with the sheets to make them extra crispy but you can
do a single wrap if you’ve made these before successfully. Fry or freeze.
Freeze
- Place the samosas in a single layer on a large sheet pan and pop them into the
freezer for 3-4 hours. When frozen, pop the samosas into a freezer-safe bag and freeze until
ready to fry.
Fry
- Heat a few inches of oil in a saucepan to 365ºF. Add a few samosas at a time and fry
them until golden brown and crispy, about 5-8 minute
Air Fryer Directions
- spray one side of the samosa and add them to a preheated air fryer at 375ºF for 15-20 minutes, flipping halfway and spraying the other side as well.
Wrapping
Notes
Attempt #1
- First attempt was not great.
- Onions were too big. Should have used a food processor or something.
- Home made pastry was really hard to work with and hard to make it thin using a rolling pin. Use spring roll wrappers next time.
- Frying in a pan with only a little bit of oil just made for half burnt samosas. Next, time I will add enough oil to cover the samosa completely.
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- used 1 small onion or half large onion.
- Subbed Jalapeño for Serrano pepper.
- Used ½ teaspoon cayenne
- 1/2 bunch of cilantro? Used a handful
- used food processor for onions, pepper and cilantro. Should have done them at the same time.
- Used lemon juice from plastic lemon.
- Used spring roll wrappers - SpringHome - TYJ Spring Roll Pastry
- Wrapping was a pain. I submerged the wrapper in cold water for about 30s to make it a bit easier to use. Seemed dried out.
How was it?
- Turned out ok. Wrapper is a bit thin. Would be better twice as think.
- Needed more spice/heat.
Simple Pastry Recipe
Ingredients of Samosa Pastry
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