Samsa (another name for it is samosa) is a national oriental dish with salt filling, which is baked in the oven or fried in oil. Usually they put in it spicy minced beef or lamb meat, potatoes with cheese and spices. One of the toppings is peas or lentils, to which pine nuts can be added. The dough for cooking samsa is also different: puff, fresh or mixed in sour cream. The article tells about how to cook samsa with potatoes using different recipes.
Puff pastry
Let's see how you can quickly prepare puff pastry for samsa. We will need the following components:
- 500 g flour;
- 250 ml of water;
- 100 g plums. or ghee;
- 1 tsp salt.
Step by step recipe
- In a glass of warm water, we dissolve the salt, sift the flour on a table or in a bowl, pour warm water into it and knead the dough.
- Knead the dough with a dough mixer or with your hands, roll it into a ball and leave it to “rest”, covering it with a bowl on top for 20-30 minutes.
- After this time, the dough is rolled into a layer with a thickness of not more than 0.5 mm. Samsa from such a test is extremely beautiful due to the structure of the test.
- We lubricate the dough well with butter, ideally melted, the taste of the finished product will be much better.
- We turn the dough into a roll and divide into 18 equal parts.
- We put each piece into a slice, press and give it the shape of a cake, put it on a kitchen board, cover with a film on top and put it in the freezer for 30 minutes or in the refrigerator compartment for at least a couple of hours.
- You can start molding samsa with potatoes or other fillings.
Fresh pastry
The dough prepared according to this recipe is perfect not only for samsa, but also for dumplings, dumplings and manti. We take the following ingredients:
- 3 tbsp. flour;
- a pinch of salt;
- 1 tbsp. water;
- 3 tbsp fat.
Sift the flour into a deep bowl, remove ½ part of the total mass to the side, add salt, in the center we make a small depression and pour warm water into small portions. We form a not too big kolobok, pour in all the water and knead the dough with force, then put it on a work surface sprinkled with flour, lay out the dough and continue the process.
As a result, we should get an elastic, not sticky to the hands, but not too steep mass. Cover the dough with a napkin and leave for a quarter of an hour. We roll it into a rectangular thin layer, then liberally grease it with pork or lamb fat, turn it into a roll, from which we form a kind of snail, and let it rest.
Sour cream dough
Often, samsa with potatoes, like its other types, is prepared from dough mixed in sour cream. The cooking process is quite simple, and the products come out soft and tender. It should take:
- 550 g of flour;
- 1 tbsp. sour cream (kefir);
- egg;
- 150 ml of water;
- 1 tbsp vinegar
- ½ tsp salts and soda;
- 5 tbsp lard
Sift the flour into a bowl, break the egg into it, add sour cream, melted warm lamb lard. We extinguish the soda with table vinegar and put it into the sour cream dough. We mix the contents into a homogeneous mass and gradually pour the remaining flour, put it on the desktop and knead the dough. Sprinkle it with flour, cover with a film and let it rest for about 20 minutes. After that, you can proceed to cutting the dough and molding products.
Samsa with Chicken and Potatoes
We advise you to cook samsa with chicken, potatoes with the addition of beef. We will need:
- 1 kg of flour;
- 2 tbsp. water;
- 200 g oils;
- ½ tsp salts;
- 500 g of potatoes;
- 250 g of chicken and beef;
- 3 pcs. bulbs;
- spices to taste (do not regret).
How to cook
- Knead the dough from flour, salt, water and butter. It should turn out to be tight, but plastic.
- In a bowl, combine sliced potatoes, meat, chicken and spices.
- From the dough, wrap the sausage and twist it in a spiral, and then cut into pieces.
- We begin to roll them into cakes with the help of a rolling pin - they turn out with a beautiful circular pattern. In the middle of each we lay the filling and pinch the edges. Typically, the products are made in the form of triangles or rectangles, but you can also have a different shape.
- We put the recipe for samsa with chicken and potatoes in the oven at 200 ° C for 20 minutes, then reduce the fire to 150 ° C, and sprinkle the baking sheet and the products themselves with plenty of water. Products can also be deep-fried.
It turns out a very tender dough with an unusually tasty filling.
Samsa on kefir
We offer another recipe for samsa with potatoes and chicken, the dough for which is kneaded on kefir. It will be required:
- 2 (+1 for lubrication) eggs;
- 250 ml of kefir (sour cream);
- 1 tsp salts;
- 3 tbsp subs. oils;
- 3.5-4 tbsp. flour;
- a pinch of citric acid.
For filling:
- 300 g of minced chicken;
- 3 pcs. Luke;
- dry seasoning for poultry;
- pepper, salt to taste.
Cooking technology
We prepare a soft pliable dough and let it lie for an hour. At this time, we will prepare the filling: put the minced meat and onion chopped in a blender in a bowl. Grind raw potatoes with a blender, it is not advisable to grate it, because the stuffing will turn out to be too liquid. Sometimes housewives chop potatoes for samsa manually with straws, often in this case he does not have time to cook and remains raw. After the seasoning, season with spices and salt and knead well.
We divide the dough into pieces the size of an egg, roll them into flat koloboks and let them lie down for 10 minutes. The dough on kefir is rather quickly wound, so we roll it out as follows: dip the top of the kolobok into flour and start rolling out the flour side. Then we turn it on the other side - it is quite wet, put the filling on it and give the product the shape of a triangle. We put samsa on a baking sheet, grease it with an egg and bake for 20 minutes. at a temperature of 200 ° C.
Puff Samsa with Potatoes
These products made from puff pastry are extremely tasty. First of all, it is necessary to knead it. We combine the egg with a pinch of salt, add 100 g of soft sl. butter and beat until smooth. Pour in warm water, salt, mix and begin to pour in small portions of premium flour. Please note: it is from it that the most delicious products are obtained. Divide the dough into 3 parts, cover with a napkin and set aside for 30 minutes.
Let's prepare the filling for samsa from puff pastry. Boil the potato and convert it into mashed potatoes. We clean the onions, chop them into small cubes and fry in a small amount of oil until golden brown, after which we combine with potatoes. Salt and pepper the resulting mass, add spices if desired.
Dissolve the remaining oil in a saucepan, cool a little. We roll one piece of dough very thinly and with a brush, thoroughly grease it with oil, let it soak for 5 minutes and put the second part on top, repeat the procedure with oil. We carry out the same process with the third piece of dough. We turn the resulting dough into a roll and cut into small pieces, which we then roll into a flat cake. In the center of each we put the filling and pinch the samsa in any shape: a ball, a square or a triangle. Spread on a baking sheet, grease with oil, and sprinkle with sesame, if desired. Bake in a hot oven until golden brown.
Samsa with meat, herbs and potatoes
We recommend cooking samsa with chicken and potatoes. Puff pastry for it can be purchased at the store or cook it yourself. Take:
- 500 g of puff yeast dough;
- 200 g chicken fillet;
- one tuber of large potatoes;
- 2 onion heads;
- salt, spices, pepper to taste.
Cooking Tips
Expand the dough, cover with a film and leave to defrost. Prepare the filling: for this, potatoes and onions need to be cut into small cubes, fillet - into strips. The last ingredient can be minced with a meat grinder, but only with large cells. We combine all the components together, add salt and pepper.
We turn on the oven at 200 ° C, and while it is warming up, we will take up the molding of products. We roll out the dough, cut it into squares or squeeze circles with the help of a pastry mold. In the middle we place the filling and give the products any shape. We lay the samsa with the joints down, grease the front side with the yolk, previously mixed with water. Top can be sprinkled with poppy seeds, sesame seeds, zira. We continue the heat treatment for half an hour.
Yeast-free puff pastry samsa
Another version of samsa from puff yeast-free dough. We will need:
- 300 g minced chicken;
- 200 g of onion;
- one large potato;
- spices, salt to taste;
- 500 g of dough.
First, let's prepare the filling: finely chop the potatoes and onions, combine with minced meat, season with spices and mix. Instead of minced meat, you can use chicken meat, cut into small pieces. Choose a part of the chicken fatter, preferably not breast.
We form samsa in the way we already know, lay on a baking sheet and grease with a brush with yolk with water. We bake culinary products for half an hour at a temperature of 200 ° C.