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Samboosa Recipes 101

Samboosa Recipes 101

The holy month of Ramadan is full of many different traditions in every house. However, the one tradition that we all have in common is the samboosa mania that takes over the month – but it seems like each family makes it awesomely different.


We at Destination Riyadh have gathered some of the most common and popular samboosa recipes so we can all get in on the delicious action and try something new!

Basic samboosa bouf with cheese / minced beef

Ingredients:

Stuffing:

Preparing Bouf Dough:

Preparing Minced Beef:

Take your minced beef out of the freezer the night before to defrost gradually. Place the beef in a pan with 1 medium sized chopped onion, sprinkle some salt to taste and fry it on medium heat until brown and onions are translucent. Then store it to the side until ready to stuff.

Directions:

Serve warm!

Photo Credit: myhalalmeatstore.com
Photo Credit: myhalalmeatstore.com

Meat and potatoes samboosa

Ingredients:

Pastry:

Stuffing:

Preparing the Potato Stuffing:

Directions:

Serve warm with a side of chili sauce.

Photo Credit: taste.com.au
Photo Credit: taste.com.au

Cheese and butter samboosa

Ingredients:

Dough:

Stuffing:

Preparing the Dough:

Directions:

Serve warm!

Photo Credit: shamifactory.com
Photo Credit: shamifactory.com

Spinach samboosa

Ingredients:

Dough:

Stuffing:

Preparing the Dough:

Preparing the Spinach Stuffing:

Directions:

The samboosa can be frozen for later use

Photo Credit: royaleindian.co.nz
Photo Credit: royaleindian.co.nz

Samboosa with chicken and sumac

Ingredients:

Dough:

Chicken:

Seasoning:

Preparing the chicken:

Preparing the Dough:

Directions:

Serve warm!

Photo Credit: kqf-foods.com
Photo Credit: kqf-foods.com

Sweet samboosa

Ingredients:

Pastry:

Ready made samboosa sheets (about 50 pcs)

Stuffing:

Directions:

Serve warm or cool.

Photo Credit: shadruchulu.com
Photo Credit: shadruchulu.com

How to fold triangular samboosa

  1. Prepare the store bought pastry and fold up the end of the slice
  2. Now fold it the opposite way, make sure the boundary is parallel
  3. After two folds, put stuffing inside the pastry
  4. Continue to fold till the last remaining fold
  5. Continue to fold samboosa the same way
  6. Place some flour and water mix at the end to hold the samboosa
optimized-sambosa-folding
Photo Credit: doublevegasm.wordpress.com

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