Chicken samosa cups

Name: Chicken samosa cups
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Total time: 45 minutes
Yield: Serves 5-10
Ingredients: 2 tbsp Rapeseed (canola) oil or ghee; 1 tsp Cumin seeds; 1 Medium onion, very finely chopped; 1 Level tsp salt; 2 tbsp Garlic and ginger paste; 3 Green bird's eye chillis, finely chopped; 1 Medium tomato, finely diced; 1 tsp Kashmiri chilli powder (more or less to taste); 1 tsp Ground coriander; 2 tbsp Ground cumin; 1 tsp Garam masala; 500g (1lb 2oz) Minced (ground) chicken; 3 tbsp Fresh coriander (cilantro), finely chopped; 6 Sheets of filo (phyllo) pastry; 3 tbsp Melted butter or ghee; 3 tbsp Fresh coriander (cilantro), finely chopped

Dan Toombs presents a novel way to make chicken samosas, from his new book, ‘Curry Guy Chicken: Deliciously Spiced Recipes From South And Southeast Asia’

By Dan Toombs

27 September 2024

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As delicious as they are, you might not have the time or the will to make authentic Punjabi samosas. You might not even want to go to the fuss of wrapping samosas using shop-bought samosa wrappers. Samosa cups are an ideal and easy-to-prepare substitute and make an excellent starter or snack with pre-dinner drinks. You could fill the samosa cups with whatever you like but here I have used the same filling as in my Punjabi samosas. To save you having to flip back and forth between pages, that recipe is here too. Although this recipe serves 5–10 people, if you have any leftover keema, you could always just bake up a couple of these samosa cups for a light snack.

This recipe is an extract from Curry Guy Chicken: Deliciously Spiced Recipes From South And Southeast Asia by Dan Toombs (Quadrille).

Next, why not try one of our tempting chicken curry recipes from the House & Garden archive?

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