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Burundian Sambusa

Name: Burundian Sambusa
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Burundi
Ingredients: 10 Spring roll wrappers; 250g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 1 clove Garlic; 1 Chili pepper; 1 tsp Curry Powder; 1/2 tsp Salt; 1 tbsp All-purpose flour; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Ground meat and onion folded into thin pastry triangles and fried — a Burundian snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sambusa are triangular fried pastries that spread to East Africa through Indian Ocean trade, and in Burundi too they're a popular snack sold on street corners and in cafés. Spiced ground meat and onion are wrapped in thin pastry and fried crisp. They're often eaten with tea.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a café display case in Bujumbura, golden fried triangles are lined up and served with milk tea.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Spring roll wrappers 10
Ground Beef 250g
Onion 1
Garlic 1 clove
Chili pepper 1
Curry Powder 1 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
All-purpose flour 1 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Stir-fry the ground meat in a frying pan and add the chopped onion, garlic, and chili.
Season with curry powder and salt, cook until dry, and cool.
Halve the spring roll wrappers and fold into triangles around the filling, starting from one end.
Seal the ends with a paste of flour mixed with an equal amount of water.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.

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