Turn About is Fair Play

 Last Tuesday I went to Sister Tagoe's place to learn how to make samosa's. She prepares her meat and fillings on Tuesday and puts them together on Wednesdays. On Wednesday I have to go to the Area office to work, so I only went to see how they prepared the meat. I stepped down five stairs from the street right into her outdoor kitchen. She had some very big ovens on the left with a table and umbrella in front of the ovens, another large table in the middle and then at the right was a "stove" top that was metal low lying shelf with large circle holes that were over a tube with a flame at the top. The tube was connected to a hose that went to a tank of presumably gas. Large almost bowl-plate shaped pans were set in the circle over the flame.

Sister BoBi and her little girl are at the table in front of the ovens

Sister Tagoe gave a warm greeting and I sat down in front of her house to cut up onions. I took Johanna's place while she took water over to the men putting up rock-front on the walls at the church.

While I kept cutting up onions, Sister Bobi took stems off peppers and put them in a bowl that has a lid with a blade on it to cut up the peppers without burning the preparer.

Next step:

Under Sister Tagoe's direction, Sister Bobi puts the hamburger over the flame. It is hard to tell size in a picture - I could not put my arms entirely around this pan. She uses the plate as a spatula to turn and brown the meat. The little one stays away from the flame.

Sister Bobi would stop and take care of her little girl every once in awhile. Johanna would take over her duties or continue with what she had been doing.

Grinding the pepper while the meat is browning

Sister Tagoe and little girl Bobi unwrapped cubes of flavor - all kinds of flavors, a little like a Knox cube - she put them in the yellow tub and mixed them all together.

Johanna keeps unwrapping cubes while Sister Tagoe takes care of the meat cooking.

Sister Tagoe seasons the meat with the mixed cubes and also another seasoning mix.

This is so ingenious! A basket with little slits and a slightly smaller bucket to catch all the oil. They cover it with material so the flys won't get in it. 

While the meat is draining, Sister Bobi cooks up the onions with a little oil

Sister Tagoe adds spices to the onions and then adds the meat slowly back in, mixing between every bowlful. The peppers are added to the mix.

She calls Johanna to bring some of the same spices to add in again.

Carrots and green onions are added last and mixed in. Then it is drained again.

And there you have it, samosa meat ready to go for tomorrows preparations!

If - and its a big if -, I ever try to make samosas I will find a recipe and look back on how these were made to remember how make them.