Paneer Gujiya/samosa

It was our son's birthday on friday. So had a small snack party at home. This is one of the snacks. It is a very quick and easy to make mildly sweet samosa. You can increase the amount of sugar and add nuts, tutty frutties as your wish. I had earlier tried this recipe as pinwheels. You can prepare this and freeze it. Fry it when you've surprise guests.

 Ingredients

1. Paneer - 15 small cubes
2. Sugar - 3 tbsp
3. Grated coconut - 2 tbsp
4. Cashew nuts - 6 nos. (chopped)
5. Raisins - a few (chopped)
6. Vanilla essence - 1/4 tsp
7. Maida (all purpose flour)/Atta - 1 cup
8. Oil for deep frying
9. Butter - 2 tsp
10. Salt - 2 pinches
11. Water required to make dough

Method

• Mix together maida, salt and melted butter. Add enough water to make a non-sticky dough.
• Crumble paneer well
• Mix together all ingredients from 2 to 6 very thoroughly.
• Roll out the dough into small circles (poori size)
• Put a spoon full of paneer filling in it and fold over into a half moon. Lock the sides. Give designs with fork. I used a mould to make this. (You get different moulds in market) (At this stage you can freeze it and fry as required)

• Heat 1/2 cup oil in thick bottomed vessel
• Deep fry until golden brown. 

Other things in my snack list were

Chicken rolls

Noodle balls

Puff pastry cups

 and the Marble cake

Noodle balls

I got this recipe from Vanitha magazine. It can be voted as a good starter. Many might think why to mix everything and then fry and have, when you can have it as such. But once in a while it can also be done for a change right ppl??. As starters in a party it is a complete surprise package as your guest won't even guess that they'll find noodles in it. Try this and enjoy their comments

Ingredients

• Maggi noodles - 1 pkt
• Onion - 1 chopped
• Ginger - a small piece (chopped)
• Cooked minced chicken - 1 handful 
• Coriander leaves - a handful (chopped)
• Egg white - 1 (optional) 
• Bread crumbs
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying

Method

• Cook maggi noodles with its masala. I used the cheese one.
• Beat egg white
• Mix together chopped onion, ginger, cooked chicken, coriander leaves and egg white. Add salt as required.
• Put maggi noodles into this and mix well.
• Make small balls and roll in bread crumb and deep fry.