Veggie Samosas.

You know the feeling, when you've spent some time at a foreign land and enjoyed their cuisine so much, that when you return home you just can't stop recreating the dishes. Every time I come back from Russia, we end up eating Russian food for a week.So it was no surprise , that when I visited India for a first time, I returned home with a suitcase full of spices and pashminas and my head full of ideas. This is an easy recipe , as I'm using a shop-bought samosa pastry (filo pastry is also good), you can obviously substitute the filling for a meaty one. The recipe makes enough filling for about 30 samosas.I served them together with a roasted red pepper sauce.
1 packet of ready made samosa pastry/ filo pastry
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp garam masala
half a tsp of ground ginger
half a tsp of mustard seeds
1 chilli pepper
2 tbsp sesame seeds
3 medium potatoes
2 carrots
1 onion
half a cup of frozen peas
half a cup of frozen sweetcorn
half of a medium cauliflower

Cook and crush together potatoes, carrots and cauliflower.
Put all the spices and the chopped up onion in the heated up pan, fry on medium heat, till the onions are nice and brown. Stir in  the peas and sweetcorn, after about 5 min add the crushed vegetables to the mix . The filling is ready.

 

Get the pastry out, make the parcels, by folding it in the triangular shapes.
Some people deep fry the samosas, I prefer to bake them. Heat up the oven 200C or oven mark 6, brush some oil over the samosas , sprinkle sesame seeds on top. Bake for about 20 min or untill golden.
As for the sauce , I got the recipe from a russian food blogger Belonika and slightly changed it.
Take 3 large red peppers, roast and peel them. Blend together with 1tsp of ground coriander, 3 crushed cloves of garlic,1 tbsp of sweet chilli pepper, juice of half a lemon, 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil, a pinch of sea salt.