Традиционная азиатская закуска под названием "Samsa" is made from puff pastry. This food is very popular in the Mediterranean and 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. Potatoes, cheese, lentils or onions can also be used as a filling instead of meat. Samsa, the recipe for cooking which is easily mastered even by a novice hostess, is rather quickly baked in an ordinary oven. So let's get started.
Step-by-step recipe for samsa
To make a snack, you need the following ingredients:
- 4 cups flour;
- 250 ml of water;
- a spoon of vegetable oil;
- salt;
- 150 g of ghee;
- 30 grams of vinegar.
For the filling, take:
- 800 g of minced meat;
- 50 g of vegetable oil;
- 2 onion heads;
- 2 cloves garlic;
- cilantro bunch;
- black and red pepper;
- salt.
Preparation
So, Asian samsa.The recipe for this dish involves the use of puff pastry. Mix all the above ingredients well. You should have a fairly tight dough. Let it stand for half an hour. After that, divide the dough into four pieces and roll each with a rolling pin into thin pancakes. Grease the lozenges with melted butter. Put all the layers on top of each other, roll them up with a tight sausage and cover with foil. In this form, place the dough in the refrigerator for three hours. At this time, you can do stuffing. The recipe for samsa with meat involves the use of ground beef with the addition of lamb. Chop garlic, cilantro and onion. Put two kinds of ground pepper in the mince, 50 g of vegetable oil, 30 g of water, and salt. Mix well and add onion, cilantro and chopped garlic. We return to our test. Cut the "sausage" into 10-15 pieces. Each place on the work surface cut up and, pressing on top of his hand, form a cake. Roll it with a rolling pin to make a flat circle. Place minced meat in the center. Stick the ends in such a way that the result is a triangular shaped bun. Put the Samsu on a baking sheet covered with parchment, brush with whipped yolk and send to the oven. Baking time - forty minutes. Enjoy your meal.
Samsa. Recipe with cheese
Necessary ingredients:
- 200 ml of warm water;
- 150 g margarine;
- a pinch of salt;
- flour.
For filling:
- 300 g of Suluguni cheese;
- 1 egg;
- clove of garlic.
Recipe
В теплой водичке разведите маргарин, pre-cut into small squares. In the resulting mixture, add salt and then flour. The dough should be soft and not stick to your hands. Covering with a napkin, put it in about twenty minutes in a warm place. Prepare a mixture of cheese and garlic. She will be stuffed with our samsa. The recipe of cooking is as follows: finely chop the garlic, grate the suluguni on the grate. Mix everything and beat in one egg. Twenty minutes later, from the dough, make balls, and from them roll out flat cakes. In the middle, place the cheese filling and form a triangular bun. Put the pies on a baking sheet made with parchment paper. Grease each of them with whipped yolk and bake for about forty minutes. Enjoy your meal.
