A traditional Asian appetizer called samsa is made from fresh puff pastry. This dish is very popular in the Mediterranean and on the Arabian Peninsula. Samsa is a triangular puff pastry stuffed with meat (beef, lamb). In Central Asia they are baked in special clay ovens - tandoor. Instead of meat, you can also use potatoes, cheese, lentils or onions as a filling. Samsa, the recipe for which even a novice hostess can easily master, is baked quite quickly in an ordinary oven. So let's get started.
Samsa recipe
To prepare a snack, you will need the following ingredients:
- 1 egg
- 4 cups flour;
- 250 ml of water;
- a spoonful of vegetable oil;
- salt;
- 150 g ghee;
- 30 g of vinegar.
For the filling, take:
- 800 g of minced meat;
- 50 g of vegetable oil;
- 2 onion heads;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- a bunch of cilantro;
- black and red pepper;
- salt.
Cooking
So, Asian samsa. The recipe for this dish involves the use of fresh puff pastry. Mix all of the above ingredients well. You should get a pretty tight dough. Let it stand for half an hour. After that, divide the dough into four parts and roll each rolling pin into thin pancakes. Lubricate the cakes with melted butter. Lay all the layers on top of each other, roll up a tight sausage and cover with a film. In this form, place the dough for three hours in the refrigerator. At this time, you can do stuffing. The recipe for samsa with meat involves the use of ground beef with the addition of lamb. Grind garlic, cilantro and onion. In ground meat, put ground pepper of two kinds, 50 g of vegetable oil, 30 g of water, salt. Mix well and add onion, cilantro and chopped garlic. We return to our test. Cut the “sausage” into 10-15 pieces. Each lay on the work surface with the slice up and, pressing on top with the palm of your hand, form a cake. Roll it with a rolling pin to make a flat circle. Place minced meat in the center. Stick the ends so that the result is a triangular-shaped bun. Samsa put on a baking sheet covered with parchment, grease with beaten yolk and put in the oven. Baking time - forty minutes. Enjoy your meal.
Samsa. Cheese recipe
Essential Ingredients :
- 200 ml of warm water;
- 150 g margarine;
- a pinch of salt;
- flour.
For the filling :
- 300 g of suluguni cheese;
- 1 egg
- clove of garlic.
Recipe
In warm water, dilute margarine, previously cut into small squares. In the resulting mixture, put salt, and then flour. The dough should be soft and not stick to your hands. Covering with a napkin, put it for twenty minutes in a warm place. Make a mixture of cheese and garlic. It will begin our samsa. The recipe is as follows: chop the garlic finely, grate the suluguni on a grater. Mix everything and beat one egg. Twenty minutes later, dough the balls from the dough, and roll flat cakes out of them. In the middle, place the cheese filling and form triangular buns. Place the pies on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper . Grease each of them with beaten yolk and bake for about forty minutes. Enjoy your meal.