Anyone know where can I buy samosa pastry? preferably over the net as I live in a semi remote area and am unlikely to get it locally.

Thanks Siddy

You could have ago at making the pastry yourself.

There are a few recipes available and it doesnt seem too complicated.

Siddy - type Samosas in the search box at the top of the page, select recipes from the drop down menu and go. You will find quite a few recipes for samosa pastry.
However, there are a few where either filo pastry, puff pastry, or spring roll wrappers have been used.

My 4 year old daughter can make it so I'm sure you can. If you cannot find a recipe I will post one for you. Good luck Siddy.

Hi Siddy, pseudo name is right, you should try making it yourself, I used the samosas in a pack, what a nightmare, you have to keep it covered in wet tea towe.
The pastry is so flimsy, one wrong move and you have to start again.

I watched Dehli Belly recently, and in India they used quite thick (compared to the pack bought stuff) and it looked almost fun doing them, where as when I made them with the pack bought stuff, it was realy frustrating, maybe I'm just clumsy, but I would also recomend making your own.

tesco have started to sell a lot of authentic ethnic foods.In their freezer section they have samosa sheets.I don't know if they are authentic but I saw an Indian couple buying them on Saturday so they must be ok.Good luck, life's too short to stand making pastry when there are so many good ready made ones out there.

Surely if you have to make a special journey to the supermarket to get the pastry you could mix the flour water and gee I think is the other ingredient.
Leave to rest whilst you have a coffee in the sun !

Also no hassle no petrol and then just roll out and away you go.
You have to make your filling or will you be buying that too chuckley?

Aw don't shout at me,I'm new..I was only trying to help Siddy out with a question she asked,and no I would'nt buy the filling.I make everything myself because I like to know what's in my food.

Hi Siddy,

Try the site below, you'll find spring roll pastry under the forzen foods section. I like using spring roll pastry for samosas, becasue the samosas once fried turn out nice and crispy and not too oilly.

www.hoohing.com

If you have any problems making up the samosas, send me a mail via my site and I'll try and help.

www.reshmamartin.com

Reshma :-)

chuckley, I've used those frozen samosa pastry from tesco, they are an absolute nightmare to use.

You have to keep them at a certain moistness
if you don't wet them enough, they become dry and unusable, if you wet them too much the amalgimate into the others, and 9 times out of ten they stick even when perfect, and are so flimsy you end up putting your finger through them, or the ingriedients rips them open, you'd be better off making your own, but if you didn't want to make them then yes, I would also recomend spring roll pastry.

Sorry chuckley but if I had been shouting at you,
I WOULD HAVE DONE IT IN CAPITALS.

The trouble is trying to get intonation into the written word, sadly it doesnt work very well so please accept my apologies.

Apology accepted,I knew you weren't really.It doesn't matter anyway it's only pastry!!!

Reshma Please Help! I checked out your site because I too would love to make my own samosas, but couldn't find the recipe for the pastry? I looked in all the catagories I think?

Hi Jaybee,

Send me a mail via my site, as the recipe has a fairly long method and I'll send it too you.

Rgds Reshma

Hey! thanks Reshma! will do!

Hi All,

Thanks for your advice on the pastry - would you believe I used to make the authentic version of the pastry as a teenager - dry cooked - came out like a better version of filo. (xxxx! should have gotten all the recipes before I ran away from home!)

Regards
Siddy.