#1 My Favorite Foods

My favorite Foods from my country are Samosa, shrimp curry, and vegetable pulao. I like Samosa it is a snack in India/Bangladesh. It has a crunchy texture with a outer Maida covering and an inner vegetable or meat filling. Shrimp curry is Shrimp with different Indian spices. And finally Vegetable pulao is a South-Central Asia type of fry rice with different types of spices and also it can made my vegetable or just rice.

Ingredients For Samosa

Dough:

• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 semolina flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 11/2 tablespoons oil
• 1/4 cup minus 
• 2 tablespoon lukewarm water

Filling:

• 3 large boiled potatoes, peeled and chopped into very small cubes
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 2 chopped green chilies
• 1 teaspoon coriander powder
• 1/4 teaspoon garam masala
• 1 teaspoon amchur (mango powder)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1/2 cup green peas (frozen

Directions:

1. Mix the flour, semolina flour, salt, oil and salt together to make a soft dough
2. knead the dough for about 2 to 3 minutes to make the dough smooth and pliable.
3. Set the dough aside and cover it with damp cloth. Let the dough sit for at least 20 minutes.

Filling:

1. Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium high heat.
2. Add cumin seeds as cumin seeds crack, add green chilies, coriander powder and stir for few seconds.
3. Next add green peas and turn heat to medium and stir until tender.
4. Add the potatoes and stir-fry for about 5 minutes. Stir in garam masala and amchur.
5. Let the filling cool to room temperature.

Making Samosa:

1. Take 2 tablespoons of water and 1 tablespoon of all-purpose flour to make a paste and keep aside.
2. Knead the dough for 2 minute.
3. Divide the dough into 4 equal parts and make into balls.
4. Roll each ball about 6-inch diameter circles and cut each circle in half.
5. Spread the paste lightly all along the edge of one semicircle. Pick this semicircle up with both hands and fold it into a cone shape. Pinch the side of this cone so that it is completely sealed.
6. Fill the cone with 3 tablespoons of filling. Press this filling down with your fingers. Now close the top of this cone into a triangle shape, pinching the top edge so that it is completely sealed.
7. Continue filling the rest of the samosas.
8. Heat about 1-1/2 inch of the oil in a frying pan on medium heat. Place the samosas in the frying pan a few at a time.
9. After samosas are floating on top of the oil turn them slowly. Fry the samosas until the samosas turn a light golden-brown color on all sides.

Ingredients for shrimp curry:

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons peanut oil
• 1 (14.5 ounce) can chopped tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 pound cooked and peeled shrimp
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
• 1/2 sweet onion, minced
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground turmeric
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon chili powder

Directions:

1. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat
2. cook the onion in the hot oil until translucent, about 5 minutes.
3. Add the garlic, ginger, cumin, turmeric, paprika, and chili powder to the onion and stir over low heat.
4. Pour the tomatoes into the skillet
5. season with salt.
6. Cook the mixture at a simmer, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes.
7. At last add fresh cilantro, and dried cilantro into the sauce mixture.
8. cook another 1 or 2 minute before serving.

Ingredient For vegetable pulao

• 1 potato
• 1 Onion
• 4 Green Chillies
• 1/4 Fresh Ginger
• ½ carrot
• 1 cup Beans
• Garlic Paste
• oil
• salt
• Garam Masala
• 2 cup of rice
• Green Peas

Out of this three recipes my most favorites is shrimp curry because is really easy to make and it doesn't take to long prepare for this recipes because shrimp it doesn't take long to cook. There is different ways to make this recipes for example with coconut milk shrimp curry which you make it same way but this time you add coconut milk, shrimp curry with pineapple which first you add the shrimp with the spices and at last pineapple. Also you can make shrimp curry with pumpkin and other vegetable.