What is Samosa Patti?

Samosa patti are the long broad strips made of wheat or maida flour. This serves as an outer covering for the stuffing. Ideal samosa patti should have a crust thats neither too thin nor thick - it should be crisp but not too flaky.

How to Select samosa pattis

Ready-made samosa Pattis are available at most provision stores will help you to assemble this snack quickly. Just check that they are not sticky and confirm on its freshness. However, it can be made at home too with the right proportions.

Culinary Uses of samosa patti

· Want something crunchy to munch in the evening, below are interesting recipes using samosa patti, try these and make your evening interesting.

1. Paneer Chilli Cigars irresistible snack, made by rolling a succulent paneer mixture into samosa patties, and deep-frying the cigar-shaped rolls.

2. Cabbage Carrot and Paneer Samosa Patti Snack It is possible to make lots of interesting snacks quickly and easily using samosa patti and this recipe is one such.

3. Spicy Paneer and Spring Onion Tartlet tarts filled with a spicy paneer, celery and spring onion mixture.

4. Burmese Samosa Toovar Dal Curry Soup an ever-popular snack and a spicy soup come together in this marvellous recipe.

Making samosa, at times it’s a lengthy process, but when you make from these pattis it is quite simple and quick to make it.

1. Jhatpat Samosa made with readymade samosa pattis, this recipe requires minimal preparation.

2. Poha and Sprouted Vatana Samosa off-beat samosa, made with a stuffing of beaten rice and sprouted green peas, flavoured perkily with green chillies, coriander and other ingredients.

3. Hariyali Samosa a well-spiced stuffing of crushed green peas and French beans, this samosa is made all the more wholesome and filling with the addition of poha to the filling mixture.

Crisp patti samosas filled with a spicy green peas and French bean mixture tastes delicious.

· Samosa Patti with the filling of your choice can be deep fried or baked in oven too with minimal coating of oil.

. It can be finely chopped or shredded as per recipe requirements.

How to Store samosa patti

Use samosa patti fresh as far as possible. However, if you have to store keep samosa patti wrapped in the refrigerator and use it in a weeks time for maximum crispiness.