My quick and tasty samosas

After a night out I fancied some homemade samosas today but I had some leftover mashed potato and nearly a full loaf of wholemeal bread to use too. Light bulb moment - it was time for my quick and tasty bread samosas!

I love samosas but they do take ages to prepare and compile with traditional homemade pastry. My mum used to make the dough, roll out small circles of the pastry and cook the pastry on one side on a tawa. We would get two samosas from each pastry circle. I would then create the outer cone of the samosa, add the filling and then seal. This production line method was fun and relaxing but when we were making around a hundred samosas for a birthday celebration, it did take hours. It was definitely a job for a long lazy weekend.

So here is my recipe for making 12 baked bread samosas. I have used sweetcorn as well as peas because my boyfriend is obsessed with sweetcorn but you can use any filling that you like or have available.

• 12 slices of wholemeal bread rolled out thinly with a rolling pin
• 4 medium potatoes boiled and mashed/ chopped
• 1 cup of frozen peas and sweetcorn kernels
• 1 tbsp of oil
• Half a tsp each of mustard seeds, cumin seeds and garam masala
• 1 tsp of ginger
• Quarter teaspoon of chilli flakes
• 1 tbsp of chopped coriander
• Salt to taste
• Glue mixture - mix 2 tbsp flour and some water until you get a glue consistency
• Oil to brush each samosa

1. Add the oil, mustard seeds and cumin seeds to a frying pan and heat until the seeds start to splutter.
2. Stir in the frozen peas and sweetcorn.
3. Add the ginger, garam masala, chilli flakes, and salt. Stir and cook for a few minutes until the mixture is cooked. Finish with the coriander.
4. Add this cooked mixture to the potatoes and mix thoroughly.
5. Preheat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6.
6. If you haven't already done so, use a rolling pin to roll out each slice of bread until you can't roll it out anymore.
7. Add a spoonful of the filling on the right half of the slice. Brush the glue on the outer edges of the bread slice, then roll over the left side of the slice so it covers the filling, and press down the outer edges to seal. You can cut around the edges and take off the crusts.
8. Make all the samosas in the same way. Place on a baking sheet, brushing each samosa with oil.
9. Place the tray in the oven and cook for 30-40 minutes until the samosas are golden brown.