The Uzbek triangular pies were so loved by the inhabitants of our multinational country that they learned to cook them in several ways. The filling for samsa can be different, and today we will offer you simple recipes for your favorite pastries.
Classic filling
Samsa is a delicious pastry that can be prepared for any reason. Usually it is made from homemade or ready-made puff pastry, and a variety of products are used as the filling. It can be meat, vegetables, cheese and even cottage cheese. But first, we want to tell you how to cook a classic lamb filling:
- Scroll through a meat grinder 500 grams of meat, fat or fresh lard.
- Chop the onion finely with a knife and combine it with minced meat.
- Season foods with ground pepper and salt.
Add two tablespoons of water to the minced meat and mix it again. The filling will turn out juicy and very tasty.
Puff pastry with minced meat
If you do not have time to cook, and the guests are already on the doorstep, then use our recipe. For this baking, you will need a minimum amount of ingredients:
- Frozen puff pastry - two packs.
- Minced meat - 500 grams.
- Onions - three pieces.
- Salt, black pepper and zira to taste.
The recipe for samsa with minced meat is very simple:
- Stuffing mix with chopped onions, salt and spices.
- Defrost the sheets of dough in the refrigerator, and then cut each into four parts.
- Put the filling in the center of each workpiece and connect the edges to form a triangle.
- Place samsa on baking paper and place it in a well-heated oven.
After half an hour, juicy fresh pies can be served to guests with tea or any other hot drinks.
Samsa with cheese and green onions
Delicious hearty pies can be quickly prepared for breakfast or evening tea.
Ingredients:
- Packing puff pastry.
- 200 grams of Dutch cheese.
- A bunch of green onions.
- Egg.
- A mixture of herbs or spices to taste.
How to cook cheese filling for samsa? Read the recipe for delicious cakes below:
- Cut the thawed dough into squares (one side about 10 centimeters).
- Cut the cheese into slices, and chop the onion finely.
- Beat the egg with the spices.
- Put a filling on each piece of dough and give the pies an envelope shape.
Lubricate the workpieces with egg mixture and send them to bake for ten minutes.
Pumpkin Stuffing for Samsa
This time we suggest you cook your puff pastry yourself. As a result, you will get sweet puffy cakes with juicy filling. So, you will need these products:
- Water is one glass.
- White flour - three glasses.
- Salt - two teaspoons (one for dough and one for topping).
- Two onions.
- Fat - 100 grams.
- Zira and seasoning for the filling - to taste.
- Sugar - two tablespoons.
- Butter.
- Pumpkin.
- Egg yolk.
- Kefir - one tablespoon.
Read the recipe for samsa with pumpkin here:
- From water, salt and flour, substitute not too steep dough. After that, collect it in a ball, cover with a napkin and let it rest for about 20 minutes.
- When the specified time has passed, roll the dough into a very thin layer and grease it with melted butter. Fold the workpiece in half, cover it again with oil and roll it up.
- Cut the dough into small pieces immediately, then put them on a plate and cover with a towel. Put the blanks in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- How to make a filling for samsa? To do this, you need to pass the pulp of a pumpkin through a meat grinder and mix it with finely chopped onions and fat. Add salt, spices and sugar to the minced meat to taste.
- Roll out the dough pieces so that the layers unfold. Put the filling in the center of each tortilla and fasten the edges in the center. You should get triangular blanks.
- Put the pies on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour. Lubricate them with a mixture of eggs and kefir, and then sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Send samsa to a well-heated oven and bake until cooked. Serve them with hot drinks or milk.
Samsa puff with potatoes
Hearty pies, the recipe of which you will read below, turn out to be very tasty and magnificent. For their preparation you will need such products:
- Dough - knead it with three glasses of flour, one glass of water and salt.
- Potato - six pieces.
- Onions - four pieces.
- Ground black pepper to taste.
- Egg.
Recipe:
- Roll out the finished dough, grease it and roll up the roll. Cut the workpiece in equal pieces and let them stand in the refrigerator for a while.
- How to prepare the filling for samsa from puff pastry? You just need to peel the potatoes and onions, and then cut them into small cubes. Mix vegetables with salt and spices.
- Roll out the dough pieces, then fill the cakes with the filling. Give the pies any shape and place them on a greased baking sheet.
Lubricate the samsa with a beaten egg, and then place it in a well-heated oven. The readiness of baking is easily determined by the golden crust and mouth-watering aroma.
Samsa with Chicken and Cheese
Juicy and hearty pies can be prepared for any reason. With them, you can drink tea at work, take them on the road or just please relatives with your favorite pastries. Stuffing for samsa puff, as you have already seen this, you can make a variety of. And this time we recommend you puff pastries with chicken and cheese.
Required Products:
- Puff yeast dough - one kilogram.
- Chicken fillet - one kilogram.
- Hard cheese.
- Mayonnaise.
The recipe for delicious samsa is quite simple:
- Chicken fillet cut into small pieces, and then mix with salt, spices and mayonnaise.
- Defrost the dough and cut it into squares. Roll the blanks with a rolling pin.
- Put the chicken on the dough, and grated cheese on top of the filling. Pinch the opposite corners of the squares, giving the pies a rectangular shape.
Bake the treat in the oven until cooked, and then immediately bring it to the table.
Puff samsa with meat and cheese
Cooking puff pastry at home is a rather complicated and time-consuming process. Therefore, in some cases, you will be helped out by the finished product, which can be purchased at any supermarket. The meat filling for samsa is perhaps the most popular. But we will add cheese and vegetables to the minced meat, making the pies even tastier and juicier.
Ingredients:
- Minced pork - 500 grams.
- Rice - 100 grams.
- Onion - three pieces.
- Puff pastry - 500 grams.
- Cheese - 200 grams.
- Carrots are one thing.
- Salt and spices to taste.
- Vegetable oil.
- Egg.
Puff Samsa Recipe:
- Chop the onion in a blender bowl, and then mix it with minced meat. Add grated carrots, salt and spices to the products.
- Boil the rice, rinse under running water and mix it with minced meat.
- Preheat the pan and fry all prepared foods in vegetable oil.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and combine it with hot minced meat.
The filling for samsa is ready. You just have to make pies and bake them until cooked.
Samsa with cottage cheese
An unusual filling for puff pastries goes well with the finished dough. Try to cook samsa according to our recipe and surprise guests with delicious pastries.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 500 grams.
- Cold water - 200 ml.
- Vegetable oil - two tablespoons.
- Eggs are two.
- Salt - one and a half teaspoons.
- Butter - 100 grams.
- Cottage cheese - 500 grams.
- Sour cream - three tablespoons.
- Garlic - two cloves.
- Greens - one bunch.
- Black and red peppers, sesame seeds to taste.
- Yolk.
Homemade samsa recipe with cottage cheese:
- Knead the dough with flour, water, eggs and vegetable oil. After that, put it in the refrigerator for one hour.
- When time runs out, divide the dough into four parts, and then roll each into a thin layer. Lubricate the workpieces with butter and roll them into rolls. Return the dough to the refrigerator for another half hour.
- Mash the cottage cheese with a fork, mix it with sour cream, chopped herbs and egg.
- Cut the dough rolls into pieces and roll out the workpieces with a rolling pin.
Blind the pies, grease them with an egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake the treat in a preheated oven. When samsa is covered with a golden crust, it can be removed and slightly cooled.