Lamb Samosas with Filo Pastry

[gazza1960]

Trying to be a tad more "diet" here by using filo pastry and the oven rather than deep fat frying them in oil.

Ingredients

1 tbsp butter
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1 tsp finely chopped fresh ginger
2 medium onions, finely chopped
2 tsp curry powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp lemon juice
250 gm minced lamb
1/2 cup hot water
1 tsp garam masala
2 tbsp chopped fresh mint 
1 tbsp coriander leaves chopped

To make the filling, heat the butter in a saucepan and fry garlic, ginger and half the onion until onion is soft. Add curry powder, salt, lemon juice, mix well. Add minced lamb and fry over a high heat, stirring constantly until meat changes colour. Turn heat down and add hot water. Cover pan and cook until meat is tender and all the liquid has been absorbed.

2. Towards end of cooking, stir frequently to prevent meat from sticking to base of pan. Sprinkle with garam masala and chopped mint and coriander, remove from heat and allow to cool. Mix in the reserved chopped onion.


Let mixture cool

Place 4 x filo sheets on a chopping board spraying each one with olive oil spray,cut sheets into 3 lengthways...........


Place a desertspoon of minced lamb mixture at one end.


fold the pastry diagonally enclosing the meat in a triangle.


continue to fold over twice more till samosa resembles...........


Tuck edges in and spray both sides with olive oil spray.

Heat oven to 180 degrees and cook in middle of oven for 12 to 15 minutes till samosas are golden.


Serve with homemade mango chutney ,Tomato Chutney,& Raita

Wrap in parchment paper to fridge and re heat the following day
for a snack.

Enjoy

Gazza

[gazza1960]

[sara g]

Sounds absolutely delish, my mouths watering just looking at them!!!!

[galina]

Oh, I love your diet food.  That looks very yummy  :)

[Lishka]

Those Samosas look the bees knees don't they? 8) ;)

To go with them, here's the recipe, simplicity itself, I ate and loved when I visited a friend who's enrolled with Slimmers(Slimming?) World and who has made the Ultimate Totally Delish (my words!)..........pakoras. (no fancy pix or even measurements of ingredients here, but it goes like this:-

You'll need.....

Mashed/smashed drained boiled  potatoes (no need to bother about the stray lump, then) - lumps IZ A BONUS!!!

Boiled and drained mixed veg (found that the green beans were a bit big so cut them down to size after draining)

Some finely chopped red onions

Curry powder to taste

Dollop low-fat plain yoghurt

egg, beaten.

So.......(conserving pans & saving on the washing up like I do), first cook the mixed veg. Strain.

Cook the tats in same pan & did all other procedures in it...., drain and mash.

Combine both.

Add curry powder & mix.

Stir through yoghurt & mix.

Bind all with beaten egg.

Blob onto baking tray like you'd do rock cakes

Bake gas mk 6 (med. oven?) for as long as it takes.......

When I scoffed my first I asked about the salt content - she didn't cook either the tats or veg with it and honestly I didn't taste the lack.....

Love this as a snack-y recipe

Lish

[Debs]

Hi Lishka,
These sound delish :P
What type of curry powder do you use?

Debs

[gavinjconway]

Gazza - that looks goooooooooood!! I'm defo going to try it.

[SueK]

Hello Gazza,
Having seen this thread I decided to do samosas for a parent and child cooking session this morning and it went down really well, although, being veggie, I sprang a choice of quorn or lamb on them at the time!  :)  Thank you for posting this thread as I probably would have never thought of doing samosas if I hadn't seen it.
Sue

[gazza1960]

Pleased to read you had some fun suek,as they are a staple in Indian cooking my Indian mate at Heathrow used to bring in really tasty vegetarian ones that his sister knocked up and me and the guys used to warm them on the warehouse boiler top on a clean sheet of aly,once the dipping sauces came out us carnivores didnt give a dang that there wasnt meat in em...as the spices and mixed vegetables made em well tasty.

Gazza

[gavinjconway]

Great taste Gazza... made some tonight.. all gone!

[gazza1960]

Glad you enjoyed em Gavin,by the way Top Top blog that you and trish have got going fella.
Thats a proper flat pack kit of a lotty your building there mate.

Good luck with it !!!!!!!!!!!!!   :D

Oh and youve got my interest in the Gem squash Gavin,whos seeds do you use for growing from as id like me and jude to try em this season.

Cheers

Gazza

[gavinjconway]

Glad you enjoyed em Gavin,by the way Top Top blog that you and trish have got going fella.
Thats a proper flat pack kit of a lotty your building there mate.

Good luck with it !!!!!!!!!!!!!   :D

Oh and youve got my interest in the Gem squash Gavin,whos seeds do you use for growing from as id like me and jude to try em this season.

Cheers

Gazza

Hi Gazza - pm me your details and I'll send you some seed.. I get from my bro in South Africa. I grow them in my GH and also out on my roof top garden..

[gavinjconway]

Glad you enjoyed em Gavin,by the way Top Top blog that you and trish have got going fella.
Thats a proper flat pack kit of a lotty your building there mate.

Good luck with it !!!!!!!!!!!!!   :D

Oh and youve got my interest in the Gem squash Gavin,whos seeds do you use for growing from as id like me and jude to try em this season.

Cheers

Gazza

Seeds posted - hope you enjoy them..