Crispy samosa recipe comming soon

[raweater]

I felt like making samosas but none of the recipes I have make a crispy shell like the real thing, so I decided to experiment.

I tried making just one, to avoid waste if it wasn't good, here's what I did:

For the shell:
I ground flax seeds into powder and mixed with just enough water to make a spreadable dough. I spread it into about a 6 inch pancake on a dehydrator sheet and dehydrated it for 1 hour, so it holds togheter but is flexible.

For the filling:
I ground walnuts and added curry power, cumin, jalapeno, and nama shoyu (just enough to become a minced meat appearance and consistency).

To assemble:
I put the curried ground meat on one half of the pancake and folded the pancake over it and closed it like a samosa.

I then put back the assembled samosa into the dehydrator for another few hours. The outside shell got crispy and the inside meat stayed moist, just what I wanted. They were delicious except that I over spiced the minced meat, but that can be corrected. I'm sure these can come out awesome, especially with a good sauce.

Once I've tweaked this properly I'll post a detailed recipe, but you can always try from the details I posted above.

These will clearly be better than the samosa recipes from my recipe books.

[raweater]

I wanted to add, I once thought of making raw dumplings with "peanut" sauce (a vegan meal I still have occasionaly in chinese/asian/oriental restaurants) by making a flax flour dough as I did here, so you could make vegetable dumplings by dehydrating the flax pancakes for an hour, and then making dumplings out of them without further dehydration to keep them soft and pour a "peanut" sauce over them.

[JEN]

Raw dumplings in peanut sauce....yummmm. Im drooling. My peanut sauce never tastes like the ones from the asian restaurants. Know of any good recipes??? I also miss pho tai soup which is the rice noodles in broth with sprouts, basil, and cilantro(I never had it with meat). I would love to figure out how to make that too. Maybe miso or veg broth with a thicker noodle from the spirooli. I love all the different asian cuisines. Will have to experiment. Thanks for the samosa ideas.

[spicyfull]

RAWk on.......That's how Recipes are Born, keep on experimenting. Have a RAW Day. Thanks for Sharing.

[RawDrop]

What would be a suitable replacement for the flax in this recipes? What else reacts that same way? I am trying to get pregnant and I have to stay away from Flax because it is estrogenic.

Let me know!!!

[raweater]

I'm not sure there would be one, I'm pretty sure it's flax's "gooey" consistency and high fat that allows it to do this. Perhaps chia would work, but I don't know if it has the estrogen problem you mention.