How to cook samsa at home from a self-made puff pastry? This question is especially interesting for those housewives who are not indifferent to such a delicious oriental dish. It is worth noting that these small meat triangles are made quite easily and simply.
How to cook samsa at home
Essential ingredients for puff pastry:
- wheat flour - 4 full glasses;
- chilled boiling water - 1 cup;
- baking soda - 1 full dessert spoon;
- apple vinegar - a little;
- creamy fresh margarine - 100 g;
- melted margarine - 50 g.
The process of kneading puff pastry
Before you cook samsa at home, you should make puff pastry yourself. After all, it is from this basis that the most delicious and tender meat dish is obtained. To do this, in a deep bowl, mix chilled boiling water with baking soda and vinegar. Next, pour wheat flour and mix everything thoroughly until the dough sticks well from the palms of the hands and from the walls of the dishes. After receiving a thick base, it needs to be rolled up into a ball, wrapped tightly with cling film and set aside for 12-16 minutes.
Over time, the dough must be rolled into a layer on a powdery surface. It is recommended to put fresh and slightly melted creamy margarine on one half of the sheet. After this, cooking oil should be covered with the second part of the dough, gently squeeze the edges, and then, sprinkling the resulting envelope with flour, roll it along (1.5-2 centimeters thick), slightly pressing with a rolling pin. Next, the base needs to be doubled again and again made from it a long and narrow layer. The surface of the resulting rectangle must be generously greased with melted margarine, and then rolled into a long and dense roll, and then refrigerated for 30-55 minutes.
Essential ingredients for the filling:
- low fat veal - 500 g;
- large onions - 500 g;
- salt - at the discretion;
- ground black pepper - optional.
Filling process
Before preparing samsa with meat, it is necessary to wash and clean the veal from foreign elements, and then finely chop it with a sharp knife. After this, it is required to chop the onion into half rings, put it in a bowl with salt and pepper and squeeze it well. Next, add veal to the vegetable, and then thoroughly mix both components with your hands.
How to cook samsa: the formation of semi-finished products
Chilled dough roll should be cut into pieces 3-4 cm thick. After that, each ball must be rolled into a small cake, in the middle of which it is necessary to lay out 1 large spoon of meat filling. Next, form a samsa in the form of small triangles.
Heat treatment
How to cook samsa at home to make it not only tasty, but also beautiful? To do this, all made semi-finished products must be laid out on a sheet (coated with oil), and then apply one beaten egg to them with a culinary brush. This procedure will make the oriental dish ruddy and mouth-watering. Baking samsa in the oven is recommended for at least 43 minutes.