Samsa is a recipe, thanks to which you can get acquainted with popular Uzbek pastries. Crispy pies made from unleavened dough have been modernized and if earlier the chopped mutton was used in the filling, today other kinds of meat and even sweet fruit jams are welcomed, and the functions of the traditional tandoor are easily performed by the oven.
How to cook samsa?
Samsa is a recipe for cooking popular Uzbek pastries. In fact, it's puff pastry with different fillings. Classical filling is chopped lamb, fattened fat, onions and spices. The dough is kneaded from flour, water and salt, finely rolled and stuffed. The products are baked at a high temperature until crisp.
Ingredients:
- lamb - 450 g;
- onion - 700 g;
- lard - 100 g;
- water 250 ml;
- red pepper - pinch;
- flour - 650 g;
- oil - 60 ml;
- sesame - 35 g;
- salt - 5 g.
Preparation
- Knead the dough from flour, water and salt. Leave for 40 minutes.
- The filling for the samsa must be cut manually: chop the mutton with lamb, onion and fat, season.
- Cut the dough into segments, each roll out.
- Start and formulate.
- Lubricate with oil, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Samsa is a recipe baked for 30 minutes at 250 degrees.
Samsa Uzbek
Dough for samsa is an Uzbek recipe with which you can prepare crispy pastries. The set of components is standard: flour, water and salt. The main thing is to properly mix the mass and get the puff pastry by rolling it out a lot. The technique is as follows: the dough sheets are lubricated with oil, spread out with a pile, folded into a roll, cut and re-rolled.
Ingredients:
- flour - 700 g;
- water - 200 ml;
- salt - 5 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- oil - 100 g.
Preparation
- Preparation of samsa begins with kneading the dough: in warm water, combine 100 g of oil, salt and egg.
- Add the flour, knead the dough.
- Divide it into 3 parts.
- Each roll and oil.
- Put in a pile, roll up and cut into slices of 1.5 cm.
- Roll out pieces and stuff them.
Samson from puff pastry
Samsa from ready-made puff pastry is a great way to enjoy home-made traditional Asian cuisine without much effort. You just need to cut the dough into squares, stuff it, fix the edges to make triangles, and bake 30 minutes at 200 degrees. To prevent the products from resembling meat patties, cut the meat by hand.
Ingredients:
- puff pastry - 500 g;
- beef - 250 g;
- pork - 250 g;
- onion - 500 g;
- a clove of garlic - 4 pieces;
- egg - 1 pc.
Preparation
- Meat, onions and garlic chop and mix.
- Roll the dough, cut into squares.
- Start and formulate.
- Lubricate the beaten egg.
- Samsa is a recipe baked at 200 degrees 20 minutes.
Samson made of puff pastry with chicken
Samsa with chicken is an adapted variant, characterized by its accessibility and simplicity. You do not need to look for scarlet lamb to get a juicy filling - no less tasty and nutritious chicken meat will adequately replace an expensive product. This dish is suitable for everyday menus, since all the ingredients can be purchased at the nearest supermarket.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 650 g;
- onions - 250 g;
- oil - 150 g;
- flour - 600 g;
- water 250 ml;
- vinegar - 25 ml;
- salt - 5 g.
Preparation
- Onions, fillets and 50 grams of oil chop.
- Knead the dough from flour, water and vinegar.
- Divide the dough into parts, each roll into a layer and grease 100 g of oil.
- Fold the layers in a pile, roll into a roll, cut into slices.
- Pieces roll out, stuff, formulate.
- Bake for 25 minutes at 200 degrees.
Samsa with puff pastry cheese
Samsa with cheese is a nutritious and spicy appetizer, similar to an Uzbek dish only by preparing a dough. The modern version is very popular and deserves special attention. Fresh dough is perfectly combined with brined cheeses. Such a tandem is so harmonious that even in a cooled form the product does not lose its taste qualities.
Ingredients:
- flour - 450 g;
- water 250 ml;
- oil - 120 g;
- salt - 5 g;
- Suluguni cheese - 350 g.
Preparation
- Knead the dough out of the water, flour and salt.
- Roll out into a layer, lubricate with oil, roll into a roll.
- Cut into segments, roll and stuff with grated cheese.
- Form and bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.
Samsa with pumpkin
Samsa with a pumpkin in Uzbek is a specialty of Central Asian cuisine and is presented in a variety of options. One of them is Europeanized, and kneaded on goat's yogurt, which makes the dough similar to yeast. Unlike the latter, it does not require "rest" and rolls out right away. For the filling is more suitable Muscat pumpkin.
Ingredients:
- flour - 400 g;
- curdled milk - 250 ml;
- oil - 40 ml;
- soda - 1/2 teaspoon;
- salt - 5 g;
- pulp of pumpkin - 700 g;
- onion - 3 pieces;
- hops-suneli - 5 g;
- yolk - 1 pc.
Preparation
- Pump the pumpkin and onion and put it out for 10 minutes. Season.
- In curdled milk, add oil, soda, salt and flour. Knead the dough.
- Divide the mass into 20 parts, roll it out.
- Start, fasten, grease with yolk.
- Samson pumpkin is a recipe in which the products are baked for 25 minutes at 200 degrees.
Samsa with minced meat
Samsa with meat is the most common cooking option. Traditionally, for giving juiciness, meat is cut into small pieces. With the current variety of recipes, it is permissible to stuff the product with minced meat, pre-twisting the meat with onions in a meat grinder. To the meat when baking is not parched, a mince of cold water is added to the mince.
Ingredients:
- flour - 600 g;
- boiling water - 50 ml;
- oil - 120 ml;
- egg - 2 pieces;
- salt - 5 g;
- butter - 60 g;
- baking powder - 5 g;
- beef - 400 g;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- water - 40 ml.
Preparation
- Mix the flour with a baking powder, two kinds of butter, eggs and salt.
- Pour boiling water and mix the dough.
- Beef with a bow scroll in a meat grinder. Add water to the stuffing.
- Cut the dough, roll, fill, form and bake for 40 minutes at 200 degrees.
Samsa with potatoes
Samsa in the oven is a modern way, thanks to which you can use any stuffing, being sure that it will always be evenly prepared. A budgetary version of samsa with potatoes will please the housewives with the simplicity of cooking, because everything that is necessary: chop raw vegetables, add for juicy fat and, mixing, wrap in dough.
Ingredients:
- flour - 600 g;
- water - 200 ml;
- egg - 1 piece;
- oil - 60 g;
- potatoes - 6 pcs .;
- onion - 3 pieces;
- lard - 200 g.
Preparation
- Mix flour and flour from the flour.
- Potatoes, onion and fat cut into cubes.
- Dough roll, oil.
- Cut into segments, fill, form triangles.
- Bake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
Samsa from lavash
Samsa at home can please a simple and quick preparation, if instead of the test use a thin lavash. "Lazy" recipe will allow you to cope with the dish in 20 minutes: you need to cut the pita bread into parts, grease the perimeter with the beaten egg and, laying out the mince, properly press down the edges. After - fry until ruddy in a pan.
Ingredients:
- minced meat - 350 g;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- lavash - 3 pieces;
- egg - 1 piece;
- oil - 80 ml.
Preparation
- In the mince, add the onion, knead.
- Cut the lavash into squares.
- Lubricate the perimeter with the egg. Lay out the filling from the edge.
- Close the stuffing with half of the pita bread.
- Fry in a pan.
Samson in the frying pan
Recipe samsa at home offers instead of baking in the oven, fry the products in a frying pan. This method will reduce the cooking time, achieve a crisp texture, golden crust and preserve the juiciness of the filling. The main thing is to warm up the vegetable oil well and monitor its temperature during roasting.
Ingredients:
- puff pastry - 500 g;
- minced meat from mutton - 300 g;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- zira - a pinch;
- oil - 150 ml.
Preparation
- In the mince, add onions, spices.
- Cut the dough into squares, fill, formulate.
- Samsa fried is a recipe in which the product is cooked in a frying pan in oil.