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Pizza Pockets

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:39:00 +0000

Preparation time 60 mins | Serves 10 persons

These pizza pockets are more or less same as traditional Pakistani samosa recipe. The only difference is in fillings and hence its name pizza pockets. The stuffing is prepared just like pizza topping and use of cheddar cheese inside the pocket gives it the flavor of your favorite cheese pizza. You can also make different shapes of pockets by using pocket cutters.

Ingredients :

For Dough :

3 cup all purpose flour
2-3 tbsp finely ground semolina
1 egg
4 tbsp ghee or butter
1 tsp salt
Pinch of sugar
Warm water to knead the dough

For Stuffing :

1 chicken breast (Boiled and shredded)
1 medium size onion (julienne)
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp thyme
1 tbsp garlic (finely chopped)
1/4 cup tomato paste (dried all extra water)
salt to taste
1 tbsp red chili flakes
1 tsp black pepper powder
Cheddar cheese as required (shredded)
3 tbsp oil

Oil for deep frying

Procedure :

Preparation of Dough :

1. In a dough mixer bowl, combine all the ingredients mentioned for dough except water.
2. Now gradually put warm water and turn on the mixer, when the dough pulls away from the side walls of the bowl then it is ready. The dough should be firm and soft, leave it for 30 mins at room temperature.

Preparation of Stuffing :

1. In a frying pan, fry garlic for just a minute, then add oregano, thyme, chicken, tomato paste and cook for 5 minutes on medium heat.
2. After that add onion, red chili flakes, salt and pepper and cook for 3-4 mins more.

Preparation of Pizza Pockets :

1. Divide dough into 2 or 3 pieces, take a piece of dough and roll it using wooden roller to make a large flat piece of normal thickness.
2. Now make it into square shape by cutting the sides, then divide it into 3-4 long strips of 2″ wide and then cut each strip from the center. Now you have several small rectangular shape pieces of dough.
3. Take one small piece and put a tbsp of prepared stuffing and put some shredded cheddar cheese on it and wrap it by joining the two opposite corners. Seal the pocket from every side by pressing fork. Make rest of pizza pockets by the same method.
4. Heat oil in for deep frying and fry all the pizza pockets in batches for 4-5 minutes until become light golden in color.

Beef Samosa

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:00:00 +0000

Preparation time : 40 mins | Serves 12 samosa

Samosa is prepared in different styles in Pakistani cuisine. They differ only in stuffing which may be of meat, vegetables or potato only. This one is beef samosa recipe which is a bit spicy and sour in taste due to the addition of lemon which enhances its flavor.

Ingredients:

125 gm ground beef
4 medium size onion (julienne)
1 tspn ginger paste
1 tspn garlic paste
1 tspn red chili powder
Salt to taste
1 tspn cumin powder
1/2 tspn black pepper powder
1/4 tspn mix hot spice powder
5-6 green chilies (chopped)
2 lemon juice

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Procedure:

1. In a sauce pan, cook ground beef with ginger garlic paste, red chili powder and salt at medium heat for 15-20 mins until beef become completely tender.
2. After that dry all the extra water on high flame and then mix rest of the ingredients including green chilies, cumin powder, black pepper, onion and lemon juice. cook all them together until onion become soft, it would take 8-10 mins.
3. Cool the prepared ground meat filling at room temperature.
4. To make samosa you can take ready made flat bread to wrap the filling or you can make the dough at home for wrapping the mixture, go to vegetable samosa recipe for samosa dough and other instructions required for preparing samosa.
5. Deep fry all the prepared samosa for 3-4 mins on medium heat until become light golden in color.

Serving:

Serve the delicious hot samosa with ketchup.

Vegetable Samose Recipe

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:15:00 +0000

Preparation time 1hr. | Serves 10 persons

This vegetable samose recipe originated from Asian cuisine. In snacks, samosas are mostly prepared in India and Pakistan and it is also a very healthy snack for kids. Samosas are cooked and wrapped in variety of ways for example with potatoes, minced meat, vegetables, chicken,cheese etc.

Ingredients:

For Dough:

2 cups plain flour
½ cup ghee or melted butter
1 tspn salt
Water as required

For Filling:

½ cup cabbage (chopped)
½ cup carrot (chopped)
½ cup capsicum (chopped)
½ cup spring onion (chopped)
1 tspn white pepper
1 tspn black pepper
1 tspn salt
½ tspn Chinese salt
1 tspn chili sauce
1 tspn soya sauce
1 tspn Worcestershire sauce
3 tbspn oil

For Chicken Marination:

250 gms boneless chicken
2 tbpsn soya sauce
2 tbspn white vinegar
1 tspn white pepper
Pinch of salt

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Procedure:

Samosa Dough Preparation:

1. In a bowl, mix salt and butter in the flour well so that crumbs are formed and feel very soft when rub on hands, the color of flour becomes off white.
2. Slowly add water to knead the dough, make sure the dough should be little harder than normal dough.

For Stuffing:

3. Marinate chicken in the above mentioned ingredients for 15mins.
4. Pour some drops of oil on the non-stick pan and put the marinated chicken pieces on it. Switch on the stove and keep heat low and let it cook under cover for 10-15mins.
5. When all the water of chicken has been dried. Make small pieces of chicken.
6. To cook vegetables click here for vegetable roll recipe.
7. Mix chicken pieces in the vegetable filling.

Making Samosa:

8. Now take a very small piece of dough, roll it with the wooden roller till it becomes very thin and cut into two parts.
9. Put 1-2 tbspn of filling on both pieces and wrap just like the shape of samosa (in triangular shape).
10. Now deep fry the samosas and take out on turning golden in color.

Servings:

Tasty vegetable and chicken samose are ready to serve on tea time with ketchup.