# Homemade samosa pastry

This recipe guides you through making samosa pastry from scratch, yielding about 40 to 50 samosas, perfect for batch cooking or feeding a large family.

- Servings: 40 servings
- Cuisine: Indian
- Category: Snack
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 4 cups plain flour
- 0.5 tsp baking powder
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 0.25 cup vegetable oil
- 2.25 cups warm water
- plain flour
- water

## Instructions

1. Add 4 cups of plain flour into a mixing bowl.
2. Add half a teaspoon of baking powder and half a teaspoon of salt to the flour.
3. Mix the dry ingredients together.
4. Pour in a quarter of a cup of vegetable oil and mix it in.
5. Slowly add two and a quarter cups of warm water to the mixture.
6. Knead the dough for about three or four minutes until it is soft and smooth.
7. Tip the dough out on a floured surface and gently bring it together.
8. Roll the dough into a sausage shape.
9. Cut the dough into even chunks, approximately 50 grams each or golf ball size.
10. Roll each dough ball out to about one or two millimeters thick.
11. Heat a tava or non-stick skillet on the lowest heat.
12. Place a rolled-out round on the tava/skillet until the color just starts to change, then flip it after a few seconds and cook for another few seconds on the other side.
13. Remove the pastry from the heat; do not cook it completely, just set it.
14. Mix plain flour and water to create a glue with the consistency of PVA glue.
15. Cut your pastry round in half.
16. Brush a bit of glue along half of the straight edge of the pastry half.
17. Fold the pastry into a cone shape and press it firmly so it holds.

## Equipment

- mixing bowl
- stand mixer
- tava
- non-stick skillet

## Tips

- If kneading by hand, go steady and don't rush to achieve a nice and springy dough.
- Roll each dough ball to about one or two millimeters thick.
- When making the glue, it should have the consistency of PVA glue.

## Source

- Original video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRvFc9KQ/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/f52d42ba-0145-458e-86bc-c7f338a26183
- Extracted: 2026-06-05

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