These Spicy Vegan Samosa Rolls are a great appetizer fusion between Indian samosas and Vietnamese summer rolls. You can prepare their spicy potato, carrot and pea filling using a single pan. A perfect finger food wrapped in rice paper.
What is samosa?
Samosa is one of the most popular portable snacks in India. Traditionally, it is a flaky pastry filled with a spicy potato filling (with or without meat) and fried in oil. Samosa is usually shaped in a triangle.
So what is the easiest way to make them vegan and gluten-free?
⇒ Make a quick, on-pot hearty veggie filling and use gluten-free rice paper!
Ingredients of vegan samosa
To make vegan / vegetarian samosa, you need 5 veggies and 5 spices.
- onion,
- garlic
- potatoes,
- carrots,
- peas,
- spices (cayenne pepper, cumin, curry powder, garam masala, turmeric, and salt),
- rice paper sheets.
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Making vegan gluten-free samosa rolls
Preparing the veggies
Making samosa filling
Rolling rice paper
Different brands may behave differently. Some brands need only a quick dunk in the water, while others need 5 seconds. So you may end up with a rice paper roll that is too sticky to hold the filling together or too sticky to serve them as they stick together.
Our top tip is “Bake them in a pre-heated 350 Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius) oven for 10 minutes until the rice paper gets light brownish and crispy.” I really like the texture of the rolls after baking. It is really crispy and crunchy. Nice to bite on them.
What sauce is good with vegan samosa?
- Cilantro and Mint Chutney (see ingredients in recipe card below)
- Vegan Raita (Yoghurt Dip)
- Sweet Chili Sauce (I know not Indian, but I love the two together)
Let us know what is your favorite dipping sauce in the comments below!
What kind of samosas are they?
Well, I was asked to review a cookbook. It is such an exciting thing to do. I am excited as I get to try new recipes, and I also feel the excitement of the author as their new “baby” reviewed by many bloggers at the same time. But the most exciting thing is that I get to share with you one recipe from the book. And I chose this delicious SAMOSA SUMMER ROLLS recipe.
But which cookbook is it, you ask?
Weeknight One-Pot Vegan Cooking by Nicole Malik
Nicole is the creator of Delicious Everyday. She shares vegan and vegetarian recipes with her 2 million yearly readers. We really enjoy her blog ever since we started eating plant-based as she cooks delicious meals from scratch using whole ingredients. Just like us. If you haven’t found her online, you should definitely go and check her blog.
She became vegetarian at a very young age when she was only 12 years old and meatless options were scarce. Which means she perfected her cooking skills and homemade recipes to perfection over the years. Her motto is
Food should be an experience that we enjoy. No judgement, no guilt.
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What can you find in the cookbook?
Nicole’s cookbook is almost 100 pages long and divided into 7 chapters. The book contains 75 delicious no-mess vegan recipes that you can make in ONE POT mostly within 30 minutes. Exactly what we need if we want something healthy, delicious and quick lunch and dinner on the table.
When we think of Quick Vegan Meals, we do think of soups, salads, pasta, stir-fry, and one-pot meals. Her recipes don’t have a long list of crazy unique ingredients and spices. She uses well-known staples to create colorful, rich and nutritious dishes. No salad and no tofu :-), but a rainbow of veggies, grains, legumes, and fruits. You can choose recipes from the below categories:
- Eat Your Veggies
- Eat with Your Hands
- Crowd-pleasing Comfort Food
- Incredible Grains
- Bowls of Deliciousness
- Rise and Shine
- Simply Sweet One-pot Treats
⇒ If you need an Easy 7-day VEGAN MEAL PLAN, click to download our free e-book with a shopping list.
Some of her recipes from the cookbook we recommend
We list you here some of the recipes from the book we either made and loved or on our list of must-try dishes:
- Portobello Pot Roast – This looks unbelievably delicious with its thick brown sauce. I saw in Bon Appetite’s article about gluten-free beers a dark ale that looks promising. I just need to get my hands on it and I am making this recipe rigth away. You can get the recipe also over at Vegan Atlas.
- Pan-fried Polenta Puttanesca – Polenta can be really bland, so you need a spicy and flavorful sauce to add to it. It was delicious.
- Fig & Balsamic Skillet Flatbread – Reduced balsamic syrup poured over sweet figs and onion slices and topped with arugula. So yummy!
- Jamaican Jerk Veggie and Pineapple Lettuce Wrap – Colourful veggies and sweet pineapple seasoned with Jamarican Jerk seasoning. Lettuce wraps are such a quick and easy lunch.
- Creamy Pumpkin Risotto with Fried Sage – We love risotto. This creamy pumpkin version has definitely got into our Top 3 next to Mushroom risotto and Beetroot risotto.
- Spicy Mexican Quinoa Skillet – Since making this Quinoa Salad with Berries and Candied Nuts, we can’t wait to try more quinoa recipes. This is one of the next ones.
All in all this cookbook is awesome. We recommend it to anyone who would like to start eating plant-based or vegan or just one dish at a time. All the recipes you can choose from are easy to make and fuss-free. So they are quick wins that will encourage you to try more and more!
⇒ Buy Weeknight One-Pot Vegan Cooking Cookbook on Amazon now, and start eating the rainbow!
This Samosa Summer Rolls recipe is meat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free and egg-free. It is also suitable for a vegan and vegetarian diet. It can also be WFPB-friendly (whole foods plant-based) if you sautee veggies in water or veggie broth.
⇒ If you need an Easy 7-day VEGAN MEAL PLAN, click to download our free e-book with a shopping list.
More quick recipes
You can browse through our Vegan Gluten-free Appetizers Recipes or our What to Eat with Hummus Guide or check out
- Quick Vegan Spinach Pasta Sauce
- Cream Cheese and Veggie Pinwheels
- Veggie Fajitas (coming, so stay tuned!)
- Quinoa Salad with Berries and Candied Nuts
Spicy Vegan Samosa Rolls in Rice Paper
Equipment
Ingredients
Samosa Filling
- 3 tbsp Olive oil
- ½ Onion (medium)
- 3 cloves Garlic
- 3 Yukon Gold potatoes (small)
- ⅓ cup Shredded carrots 35 g
- ½ cup Green peas (frozen or canned) 75 g
- 1 tsp Garam masala
- 2 tsp Curry
- ½ tsp Turmeric
- ¼ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Cumin
- ⅛ tsp Cayenne pepper
- 6 Rice paper sheets
Homemade Mint Chutney
- ⅓ cup Dairy-free yogurt (plain) 80 g
- 1 ½ cups Fresh Thai basil or Cilantro 60 g
- ½ cup Mint leaves 20 g
- ½ Jalapeño pepper
Instructions
Preparing veggies
- Wash, peel and mince onion and garlic.
- Wash, peel and cut potatoes in small cubes
- Wash, peel and shred carrots.
Making samosa filling
- To make the veggie filling, heat 1 Tbsp of the olive oil in a large nonstick pan over medium heat.
- Add the onion and garlic, and cook for 3 to 4 minutes until soft and fragrant.
- Add the remaining 2Tbsps of olive oil, the potatoes, carrots, and peas. Cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the garam masala, curry powder, turmeric, salt, cumin, and cayenne pepper (if using). Cook for 5 minutes.
- Cover and cook for 12 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally until the potatoes are soft. Remove the pan from the heat.
Rolling samosa
- Soak a rice paper sheet in warm water for 2-5 seconds. (MORE TIPS in NOTES!!!)
- Lay it on a flat surface and spread roughly one-sixth of the potato filling down the center.
- Roll the rice paper around the filling, as if you were rolling a burrito.
- Repeat for all six rolls.
Making homemade cilantro mint chutney
- Add the cilantro, mint, jalapeño and dairy-free yogurt to a blender.
- Process until the mixture is mostly smooth.
Kate Parrillo
Tamarind sauce is my favorite on samosas and Hawaiian chili water! This is a genius take… I’m on it!
Rae
Just finished making an 8 batch (big family). Didn’t add the cayenne so that the kids could enjoy. 2/3 liked them. I think next time I will add less oil though, it is leaking out of the wraps. Flavour is good and all of adults enjoyed.
My Pure Plants
Thanks for trying the recipe.