GlutenWatchers

I have a confession to make, I am a little sick of finding a trillion recipes for GF breads, cakes, muffins, cookies on the web. No offence meant to folks who love these, but come on, there has to be much more to life than just these foods. I am sure there are a ton of celiacs who are avoiding yeast and sugars/ agave & what-not, I am one of them for sure! So on one of our forays looking for something exciting, we came across this recipe for samosas and does it look yummy! For folks who don’t know what samosas are, they are a delicious pastry filled with vegetables (usually potato & peas) or meats. In India, these are accompanied by a sour-sweet chutney, & you are likely to find this food in every restaurant & sweetmeat shop in India. Trouble for us celiacs is the pastry is typically made of maida (refined flour).

This recipe uses garbanzo & fava flour instead for the pastry: well actually there is no outer pastry shell, this cook has ingeniously just mixed up the dough with the potato & pea filling to produce a patty- more a cutlet than a samosa, but we are not going to split hairs over that, are we? BTW, I’d guess you can make a pastry just by putting together all the ingredients this cook has except for the dough: boiled potatoes are a great binder in their own right, & if cooked on a low flame on a griddle with some oil added, you end up with aloo tikki; you can top it off with a gravy, chutney, & chopped onions. Hmmm, this recipe needs to be posted here the next time I make it.

But for now, enjoy this video: