International day’s celeberation are coming up this friday at my kids school. We are asked to share some food from the country of our origin.AND it has to be finger food.
I want some ideas.
I thought of pakoray/samosay etc. but then it will not be very practical to squeeze in the frying part to our already busy morning schedule.
So any ideas…???
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Namak Paray :D
just kidding
I took cocktail samosas to Chotis international day.
They very tinier than the original samosas.
took around 10 mins to fry 'em all
If you premake them the night before.
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Samosa are good to take as they are not messy.
Aray baba, adha ghanta jaldi uth ke fry kar laina :p
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I would make aloo cutlets and bake them. I hate frying as well.
Aur make some mithaii (barfee, kalakand) at home and just take it.
Make patties keemay wali and bake them.
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Afia baji, make some chicken/beef/veggie pattese (sp) the night before or even today. The morning you have to take them to the school, put them in the oven to bake while you guys are getting ready.
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ooh we had a thing like that for our school. well it was actually a project, so i made baisan ka halwa. everyone lubbed it
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I would just fry the frozen mini potato somosas you get in the desi stores. Frying them takes 5 mins. You get like 50 in each bag. They are really good and not too spicy for our non desi crowd.
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I was also gonna suggest the small frozen samosas.
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Thank you all for your input.
We don’t get any frozen samosas here…we hardly have any desi stores in whole berlin.shame!!!
Khair…I’m gonna call ammi for suggestion otherwise will make samosas myself…!
Sadaf…I hardly get sleep longer than 5 hrs…uss maiN bhee aadha ghantanikaal dooN???
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Now I am craving samosas 
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Afia, whether you decide to make samosas or not, could you please post your recipe? :halo:
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CB...why not! :)
For crust:
Take flour n butter in proportion of 4:1 ....like for 400 gram flour you need 100 gram ghee/butter/shortening
add some salt (a pinch or so) n some cumin if you like.
rub flour with ghee n then knead it with water . Set aside for a while.
Now for filling I think it really depends....you can either use boiled potatoes with corriander, spring onion etc...or you can make your own filling with shredded chicken or mince or may be you casn even try mixed vveggies as well.
Once your filling is ready, roll out small balls of dough cut it in half making two semi circles from one rolled out piece. shape it like a cone/triangle fill this cone , seal the ends with flour water mixture n once all are in shape....fry samosas aur mujhay dua daiN :)
I know this is not the proper way of writing a recipe but couldn't write it any better.
Plus I hope you know the cone making part....its tricky to explain but if you really don't know I might try to upload some pics when n if i make samosas.....let me know! :)
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^^ Thanks Afia:)....mei aapko her luqmay par dua'ain doongi:)
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Perfect! Thanks Afia. One question though, I hear some people fry their potatoes for filling instead of boiling them. What do you do?
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Afia, I had to do a presentation for kids and I made basan coated aloo kay slices. I made them over night and microvawed them in the morning before the presentation. I also made yogurt chutney to go with them.
It was easy and everyone liked them.
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Lusi, thanks for the idea.:)
CB...I just heard the potato frying bit from you....I usually just boil but this time I'll try the frying bit too. lets see!
Mahru....In that case may you crave for samosas everyday! :)
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so have you decided yet on what to make afia?
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Dawn frozen samosas.. they taste relaly good!!!!
I am having some right now.. Afia baji you made everyone crave ofr samosey on GS :p
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We had to do the same thing in school and ammi also gave us samosa. Cutlets or kababs cut up into pieces might work too
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me too and we are out of them. 