Samosa Night!

I am blessed to be living with my lovely and talented roommate, M. We make an excellent culinary team: I cook and she bakes, so between the two of us we are always supplied with home-cooked meals and desserts. The other day she decided to encroach on my territory by making some amazingly delicious samosas. (The link to the recipe we used does not apppear to be working, but a similar version can be found here.) I've documented the process via photos:

Sauteeing the onions.

The filling: onions, diced boiled potatoes, peas, ginger, green chili, coriander, cumin, and garam masala. (Did you know that coriander is the same thing as cilantro? Usually it refers to the seed of the plant, whereas cilantro connotes the leafy part. I just discovered this. Incidentally, I loathe cilantro. But coriander is okay. Go figure.)

The dough is just a mixture of flour, salt, oil, and water, which is then separated into balls and flattened into individual circles.


Stuffing the pastry.


Pinching it shut.


Deep frying it! (A note on this deep fryer: It was given to me by my mother, and I have no idea where she found it. It had never been used before this night. But it was made in 1978. What??)


Deep-fried Indian stuffed pastry goodness! (And they're even vegan!)


And finally, the lady of the hour:
Beautiful, a great cook, and SINGLE!

Stay tuned for more adventures in the Casa Kitchen -- and possibly more pictures of the unparalleled Miss M!