Samsa is a variety of pies that are common in Asia, the Mediterranean and Africa. In Uzbekistan, Turkestan and Tajikistan, samsa is traditionally cooked in special ovens - tandoor.
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Food required for cooking
To prepare samsa with meat, you will need the following ingredients: 1 cup of water, 2 cups of wheat flour, 100-120 g of butter, 300-400 g of beef, 1-2 large heads of onions, fresh parsley, salt.
Samsa with meat, cooked in a tandoor, has a rounded shape. At home, it’s easier to bake pies of a triangular shape. The recipes are quite diverse, as they use choux, puff and unleavened dough.
Cooking Chops Dough for Samsa
Sifted wheat flour is mixed with a pinch of salt. Then boiling water is poured into the flour in a thin stream, kneading a dough that is sufficiently elastic and does not stick to the hands.
In a water bath, melt the butter. The table is sprinkled with flour and rolled out the dough in a thin layer. The surface of the layer is smeared with melted oil. Next, the cake is folded in half, again greased with oil and rolled out. This procedure is repeated several times. It is important not to overdo it with oil, you need to lubricate the dough carefully. Otherwise, the oil will literally seep out.
The last time the dough is rolled out, giving it the shape of a small rectangle. After that, the dough is sent to the refrigerator for 1-1.5 hours and the preparation of minced meat is started.
How to cook minced meat for samsa
Onions finely chopped, sprinkled with salt and squeezed until juice appears. Fresh parsley is chopped finely. Beef is cut into small pieces and passed through a meat grinder twice.
All ingredients are thoroughly kneaded, adding a little water, salt and black pepper. Stuffing should turn out quite juicy, but not liquid.