Samosas

Life has been busy lately.  Besides the typical work and other obligations, our family got together to put up a fence at my sister's house.  The fence looks fantastic, but I think it wore everyone out.  Needless to say I have not cooked for the last several days.  I did, however, find pictures of a recipe that I never posted.
 

While we were on our Indian food kick a few months ago, we tried samosas.  They were so good.  If you have the time, I suggest trying them out.  Cole had a great time helping roll out the dough.

 

Samosas

Ingredients
Dough:
4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup softened butter
5/8 cup water

Filling:
1 Tbsp. butter
1 onion chopped
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1 cup ground beef
1 fresh green chile
1 tsp salt
1 cup peas
1 tsp fresh cilantro
pepper

Directions
1.  Mix together flour and salt.  Cut butter into small pieces and mash into the flour with fingers.  Mixture will look like bread crumbs.  Stir in a little water at a time and mix thoroughly.  Knead until smooth.  (I think we struggled with finding the right amount of water vs. flour...just a heads up).  Cover with a damp cloth.
2.  Melt butter in a saucepan.  Saute diced onion with cumin seeds.  Cook and stir for 5-7 minutes.  Add ground beef, diced green chile, and salt.  Stir and let simmer for 10 minutes.
3.  Stir in peas (we used frozen peas) and cook for 5 minutes.  Remove from heat and stir in cilantro and a pinch of pepper.  Let cool.
4.  Divide the  dough into 12 eaqual portions.  Roll each portion into a circle.  Cut the circles in half.
5.  Fill each half circle with meat mixture.  rub milk over edges of dough and press together.
6.  Deep fry the samosas until crisp and golden.