Hyderabadi-style samosas

I came across these samosas in the bustling Hyderabadi colony in Karachi – an area filled with immigrants from Hyderabad in India who settled there at the time of partition in 1947. Their cuisine is rich, aromatic and renowned in Pakistan as being very festive. The special ingredient here is pawa (a dried flattened rice), which soaks up all the juices from the onions, leaving tiny, crisp, moreish parcels of flavour.