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Bahraini Sambusa

Name: Bahraini Sambusa
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Bahrain
Ingredients: 10 Spring roll wrappers; 250g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; A pinch Cilantro; 1 tsp Cumin powder; 1 tsp Curry Powder; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 1 tbsp All-purpose flour; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Spiced ground meat or vegetables wrapped in thin pastry triangles and fried — a Bahraini Ramadan snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sambusa is India's samosa as it reached the Gulf, and in Bahrain it's a snack essential at Ramadan dinners. Spiced ground meat, cheese, or vegetables are wrapped in thin spring roll pastry triangles and fried crisp. Families wrap them in large batches and freeze them to fry every night of Ramadan.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At dusk during Ramadan in a Bahraini kitchen, triangular fried snacks come out of the oil one after another and are heaped on a big platter.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Spring roll wrappers 10
Ground Beef 250g
Onion 1
Cilantro A pinch
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Curry Powder 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
All-purpose flour 1 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Fry the ground beef and chopped onion, season with the spices, salt, and pepper, mix in chopped cilantro, and let cool.
Cut the spring roll wrappers in half lengthwise.
Add filling and fold into triangles, sealing the end with flour mixed with water.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Serve hot.

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