Nariyal Samosa (Coconut and Lime Samosa)

Unless we have company, I usually do not prepare evening snacks. A cookie or a toast is good enough with our evening tea. We like an early dinner. It isn't like that at my parent's place. They like to munch on something for tea and then have dinner around 9 - 9:30 at night... sometimes even later. Not a very healthy habit... but that is how it is... Earlier, when I was small my mother used to prepare one sweet and one savory snack everyday. Again not healthy... but that was how it was.. With time the number of snacks reduced to one but she still makes a little something everyday... and sometimes when I ask her for ideas for the blog she tells me what she prepared the evening before. That is how I was reminded of this Nariyal Samosa..

   

These samosas are a bit different from the ones that you get in the Indian stores. Typically it takes some time to prepare the stuffing for the Samosas.. but you barely need to no anything for these. Just spice up some grated coconut with green chili, add chopped onions and coriander to it, squeeze some lime juice, season with salt and sugar and your stuffing is all set. 

This recipe is my grandmother's....

After the Indian-Pakistan partition, owing to the unstable job scenario in Bangladesh, many of my mother's cousins from Bangladesh came to India and lived with them for a good many years. That meant that in addition to her family of five, my grandmother had to prepare meals for four to five more people everyday for all those years. I guess quick-fix snacks and meals would have been her saviors during that phase..  I am not sure if she bickered about the extra work load back then.. but in the years that followed I have only heard my grandmother, mother, uncles and aunt talk very fondly of the times they spent together..

I made these a couple of week's back when my cousin was here. She helped me take the step-wise photographs that you see below. In case the samosa fold feels like too much work, fold the dough empanada-style and fry them. I do not when I have to make bigger batches..

Nariyal Samosa

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Recipe source Urmimala Pal, my mother

Prep time: 15 minutes                                                                                     Cook time: 20-25 minutes  
Total time: 45-50 minutes                                                                               Yield: 12 pieces

Ingredients

• For the crust
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tbsps semolina
• 3+1 tbsps vegetable oil
• ⅔ cup lukewarm water
• For the filling
• 1 ¼ cup grated coconut
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 2-3 green chili, chopped
• ¼ cup coriander, chopped
• lime juice, to taste
• salt to taste
• pinch of sugar

Cooking Directions

1. Mix the flour semolina and oil.
2. Gradually add the water to the mixture and knead to make a soft dough. Keep aside for 10 minutes while you prepare the coconut filling.
3. Mix the ingredients for the filling. Taste and adjust the lime juice, salt and sugar.
4. Divide the dough into 12 lemon sized balls.
5. Roll the balls into 5 inch long and 1¾ inch wide ovals.
6. Keeping a finger in the center, fold the rolled out oval and pressing the edges with your fingertips, seal them halfway from the bottom to the center. At this stage the rolled out dough will look like a cone with a round collar. (refer to the photograph.)
7. Put 2 tablespoons of the coconut filling in the cone, then fold the open end of the collar and press it against the edges of the cone so you have a triangular dough casing in hand. (refer to photograph.)
8. Repeat with the rest of the dough balls.
9. When all of them have been stuffed and shaped, heat enough oil(about 2 ½ -3 inches deep ) in a large kadai. To check if the oil is hot enough, drop a small piece of dough in it; if it sizzles right away and gradually floats up to the surface then the oil is ready for frying.
10. Now turning the heat to medium low, carefully place the stuffed samosas in the oil. Do not overcrowd, fry only a few at a time.
11. Once the samosas float up to the surface, turn them and fry until they turn golden brown. Then lift them out with a slotted spoon and keep aside.
12. Serve with sauce or chutney and enjoy.

Photos 1-6 correspond to steps 5-7 of the instructions...

I shall be sharing this at the Swati's FR Event that I am hosting this month.

I shall also be sharing it at all these parties..

 Mix it up Monday, The Scoop, Made with love Monday,
Marvelous Mondays @ This Gal Cooks, Recipe Sharing @ Jam Hands
Melt in your Mouth Monday, Inspiration Monday Party
Inspire Me Monday, Clever Chicks Blog Hop,Meatless Monday :  Meatless Monday My Sweet and Savory

Tuesday 
Totally Tasty Tuesday @ Mandy's Recipe Box,  Tasteful Tuesday Party @ Nap Time Creations,
Show Me What You Got @ Our Delightful Home ,  Hand Made Tuesday @ Ladybug Blessings
Share it Link Party @ Winthrop Chronicles,  Tasty Tuesday @ Anyonita Nibbles,
Hearth and Soul blog Hop @ Zesty South Indian Kitchen, In & Out of the Kitchen @ Feeding Big & More,
Tuesday's Table @ Love in the Kitchen, 

Wednesday 
What's Cooking Wednesday @ Buns in my Oven, Cast Party Wednesday @ Lady Behind the Curtain,
Show and Share @ Semi Homemade Mom, Wine'd Down Wednesday,
Wonderful Food Wednesdays at @ All She Cooks, Wonderful Food Wednesdays at @ Mom's Test Kitchen
Wednesday, Whatsit@White Lights on Wednesday, Wednesday Extravaganza @ Hunger Little Girl, 
Create & Share @ The Trendy Tree House, What I Whipped Up Wednesday @ Sugar & Dots Look, 
What I Made @ Creations by Kara

Thursday

Link it Up Thursday @ Seven Alive, Fantastic Thursday @ Three Little Chiefs, 
Thriving on Thursdays @ Domesblissity, Full Plate Thursday @ Miz Helen's Country Cottage , 
 Freedom Friday @ My Turn,  Thursday's Treasures @ Food Done Light,
Pin it Thursday @ Sweet Bella Roos

Friday 
Foodie Friday @ Simple Living and Eating,  Friday Linky Party @ The Pin Junkie, 
Get Him Feed @ Anyonita Nibbles,  Friday Favorite (DYI too) @ Simple Sweet Home,
Foodie Friday @ Not Your Ordinary Recipes,  Foodie Friday @ Rattlebridge Farm,
Weekend Wonders @ The Thriftiness Miss, Friday Food Frenzy @ Mostly Food and Crafts,
Weekend Potluck @ Sunflower Supper Club, The Weekend re-Treat @The Best Blog Recipes