🇧🇩 Bangladeshi Cuisine

Singara

Spiced Vegetable Pastry

Prep Time 30 min

Servings 8

Difficulty Medium

Calories 202 kcal

Crispy, golden triangular pastries stuffed with spiced potato, peas, and aromatic cumin — Bangladesh's favorite tea-time snack.

Ingredients

1 Make dough: mix flour, oil, and salt. Add cold water gradually to form a stiff dough. Rest 20 min.
2 For filling: fry cumin seeds in oil, add potatoes, peas, turmeric, coriander, chillies, and salt. Mash slightly.
3 Roll dough thin, cut into semicircles.
4 Fold each semicircle into a cone, seal edge with water. Fill with potato mixture.
5 Seal the top edge firmly, pressing with a fork.
6 Deep fry at 160°C until golden and crispy, about 5-6 min. Drain and serve hot.

Did You Know?

In Dhaka offices, the 4 PM singara-and-tea break is so sacred that meetings are routinely scheduled around it.