Samosa Pinwheels – Spiced Potato Pinwheels

What happens when Samosa potatoes meet Pinwheels. You get Samosa pinwheels! These pinwheels are easy with a few ingredients. The Samosa potatoes come together quickly if you have boiled potatoes. The pinwheels come together in 20 minutes! Faster with store bought or pre-made tamarind chutney. Make the quick Tamarind chutney and Mint cilantro chutney. Mix the mint cilantro into the samosa mixture and drizzle the tamarind chutney on the potatoes. Fold the tortilla, slice and serve, or bake for 15 minutes and serve. Its samosa + chutneys all in one bite.

I prefer the unbaked pinwheels as the mint and sour flavor profile packs a punch in the potatoes and remind me of Sev Puri chaat (crackers topped with spiced minty potato mixture, onions, tomatoes, sev (chickpea noodles), tamarind chutney). Darn it, I miss Chaat! The baked pinwheels are sturdier as the potato sets and the tortilla crisps up a little. The tamarind, sweet and spices get stronger on baking and hubbs loved them baked more. Both ways they are very addictive. You cannot stop at one. If you like Indian Chaat or Samosas, you will want to make a double batch of these for Diwali or Gameday or other parties.  Happy Diwali!

My book Pitzn Indian Kitchen got nominated for Goodreads Best cookbooks 2015 category! Woop. First round voting can be cast here! Its competing with all the meaty books, so I am just glad it was nominated at all 🙂
more

More Savory Snack options for the Diwali festival season

• Baked Mung Dal Samosas
• Baked potato rice crackers – gluten-free
• Baked Maida Papdi – Cumin seed Crackers
• Chivda – Roasted puffed grains and nuts spiced with mustard seeds and curry leaves. Savory Spiced Trail mix
• Potato Quinoa Patties
• Onion fritters (pakora), Baked Dahi Vada, Tandoori tikka, Baked Kachoris, Gobi manchurian, Aloo bonda (baked mashed potato fritters), Handvo (gluten-free lentil rice zucchini cakes) in the book.

On my vision therapy front, I passed the barf test. 😉 Skip this para if needed. So the test was developed long ago, when one of the vision therapy docs changed his carpet in his office to a very circle, floral kind of pattern. His patients would come and throw up after being in the office for a few minutes. He then started using that kind of pattern to correct vision issues with prisms or therapy. If you can look at the pattern for 5-10 minutes without issues, you are all good. My appointment on Monday was to look at than darn pattern with and without prisms. Thankfully, I got just mildly sick, but the rest of day and yesterday were mostly audio books and sleeping. Now, we have to decide on the year long therapy plan, all of which isn’t covered any health insurance. I think I am more scared about all the disruption of my day-today schedule because of the exercises and therapy. I mean, the whole pattern prism thing took less than 7 minutes and I was down for 2 days. I get frustrated and mad when I can’t do stuff. Sigh.

Steps:

Make the mashed samosa potato mixture. Mix in the crushed mint cilantro.

Layer over a large tortilla.

Drizzle tamarind chutney on the the potato mixture.

roll up and slice. Serve chilled as is or bake and serve.  Below unbaked.

Note: I have added amazon links to not so easily available spices/mixes on the recipe. The spices and spice mixes are often much cheaper from an Indian store. See Pantry page to find a store near you or Indian stores online.

Below, baked pinwheels.