📍 Where this dish comes from: Mumbai
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The samosa is India’s most iconic street food — a golden pastry filled with spiced potato and peas, sold on every corner and at every festival. This keto version replaces the potato filling with spiced lamb mince and the wheat pastry with almond flour dough. A shatteringly flaky almond-flour shell gives way to a fragrant, warmly spiced minced lamb filling that hums with cumin, coriander, and garam masala — the pure soul of India’s most beloved street food, transformed into something you can eat every day on keto.
What You’ll Need
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 245kcal
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups almond flour Dough
- 2 tbsp psyllium husk powder Dough
- 1 egg Dough
- 2 tbsp ghee Dough
- 1/2 tsp ajwain Dough
- Salt Dough
- 2 tbsp cold water Dough
- 200 g minced lamb Filling
- 1 tbsp ghee Filling
- 1/4 onion Filling; diced
- 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste Filling
- 1/2 tsp cumin Filling
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder Filling
- 1/4 tsp garam masala Filling
- 1 tbsp fresh coriander Filling
- Salt Filling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 190°C (375°F).
- Cook filling: sauté onion, add lamb and all spices; cook until dry.
- For dough: combine almond flour, psyllium, ajwain, and salt.
- Add egg and ghee; mix into a crumbly texture.
- Add water gradually until dough comes together.
- Divide into 8 balls; flatten each, fill with 1 tbsp filling.
- Fold and seal edges by pressing firmly.
- Bake 20–22 minutes until golden.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 245kcal | Protein: 14g | Fat: 19g | Fiber: 4g
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Health Benefits
- Baking instead of deep-frying meaningfully reduces the added fat compared to traditional frying methods.
- Almond flour pastry provides more fiber and fewer net carbs than wheat pastry.
- Ajwain (carom seeds) in the dough are traditionally used to aid digestion of the fat-rich filling.