Everyone is familiar with deep-fried samosas, where the fillings are cooked and enclosed within samosa leaves. Here is a unique raw samosa dish, where cooking is not at all needed. It also uses Isabgol – bran of a variety of medicinal rice, which is commonly used in raw foods as a substitute for gelatine. You can buy it online.

Ingredients for Raw Samosa:
1. Zucchini chopped fine – 100 gm
Carrot chopped fine – 100 gm
Onion chopped fine – 100 gm
Walnut – 50 gm
Garlic chopped fine – 2 small spoons
Crystal salt powder – ¾ small spoon
Garam masala powder – 1 small spoon
2. Coriander leaves chopped – 2 small spoons
To prepare samosa leaf:
3. Tomato – 1 kg
Carrot – 250 gm
Ginger and garlic – 30 gm each
Crystal salt – 2 small spoons
Lemon juice and chilli powder – 1 small spoon each
Cumin powder – 2 small spoons
Isabgol – 2 small spoons
Cashews powdered – 50 gm
How to prepare Raw Samosa?
1. Smash ingredients no: 1 using a mixer. Never make it a paste.
2. Add chopped cilantro to it and mix the contents to prepare the filling.
3. Make a fine paste of ingredients no: 3.
4. Place inside a plastic sheet and spread it into a thin samosa leaf.
5. Dry it well under direct sunlight.
6. Place a little filling inside each samosa leaf, and fold into samosa shapes.
7. There is no need to deep-fry them. You can serve it as a raw dish.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, August 15-31, 2019
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