Samosa Pasta from Flavour

By Erin Brown
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“I absolutely love lamb samosas. The spicy filling with occasional sweet bursts of peas, the ratio of meat to wonderful crisp pastry – it is literally one of the world’s best inventions. But I have often wondered what combining that kind of filling with pasta would taste like, and it’s really rather good, I can tell you. We love it in my household, and even though I pack in the spices, the kids love it, too, because, well, they have good taste in food. It’s a really simple recipe to make using peas from the freezer and spices and pasta from the cupboards together with some mince… perfect midweek supper food.” Sabrina Ghayour, author of Flavour

Serves 3-4

Vegetable oil

1 large onion, finely chopped

250g minced beef

1 heaped teaspoon garlic granules

1 teaspoon cumin seeds

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 teaspoon chilli flakes

3 tablespoons tomato purée

200ml warm water

3 handfuls of frozen peas

250g farfalle pasta (or pasta shape of your choice)

1 small packet (about 30g) of fresh coriander, roughly chopped

Maldon sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper

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Place a large frying pan over a medium-high heat, drizzle in some vegetable oil and fry the onion until nicely browned. Add the minced beef and immediately break it up as finely as you can to prevent it cooking in clumps. Then add the garlic granules, all the spices, the tomato purée and a generous amount of salt and pepper and stir-fry the mince for a few minutes. Pour in the warm water and stir-fry again until mostly evaporated. Lastly, stir in the peas and then turn the heat off.

Cook the pasta in a large saucepan of salted boiling water according to the packet instructions, then drain, reserving a cup of the cooking water. Add the pasta to the spicy beef mixture and place over a medium-high heat. Pour in the reserved pasta water and mix together well. Taste and adjust the seasoning if desired, then add the coriander, stir through and serve. This needs no accompaniment.