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Recipe: Baked Rice Samosas
Easy to make crispy baked samosas filled with rice and peas, served with a fruity yoghurt dip.
Servings: 40
Prep Time30 minutes mins
Cook Time20 minutes mins
Total Time50 minutes mins
For the Samosas
- 2 cups pilau rice - Veetee
- 1/2 cup frozen peas
- 1 tbs coriander - finely chopped
- 1/2 red chilli - deseeded and finely chopped
- 1 packet filo pastry
- 50 g butter - melted
For the Yoghurt Dip
- 10 cm cucumber - finely diced
- 3 tsp natural yoghurt
- 3 dsp mango chutney
- 2 tsp curry powder - to taste
- Chilli and coriander - to taste
For the Samosas
Mix the Veetee rice, peas, coriander and chilli together in a bowl.
Open the packet of filo pastry and cut into strips about 6cm wide and about 24cm long - the short edge of most ready made brands is about the right length. Cover the pastry that you are not working with with a damp tea towel to keep it from drying out and cracking.
Take one strip of filo and brush it with melted butter, put a teaspoon of the rice mix onto the pastry and fold it up into a triangle shape, following the photos below. Add some extra butter to stick the flap down.
Carefully place the finished samosa onto a baking tray.
Once you have finished folding brush all the samosas with melted butter, turn them over and brush with butter again.
Bake at 180C fan / 200C / Gas 6 for 15 - 20 minutes until golden brown and crisp.
For the Yoghurt Dip
Sprinkle the chopped cucumber with salt to draw out some of the liquid and leave in a sieve for 10 minutes.
Mix all the other ingredients together, add extra chopped chilli and curry powder is desired.
Place the cucumber onto a clean tea towel and give it a really good squeeze to dry out the cucumber out a little.
Stir the cucumber into the yoghurt dip.
Serve immediately with the freshly baked samosas.
• Please note that the nutrition information provided below is approximate and meant as a guideline only.
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