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Sambos

Name: Sambos
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Madagascar
Ingredients: 10 Spring roll wrappers; 250g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 1 piece Ginger; 1 clove Garlic; 2 tsp Curry Powder; A pinch Cilantro; 1 tsp Salt; To taste Oil for frying; 1 Lime

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Spiced ground meat folded into triangles and fried — a Malagasy street snack brought by Indian immigrants.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sambos are Indian samosas that crossed the Indian Ocean to Madagascar: small fried triangles of ground beef, fish, or potato sautéed with curry spices and wrapped in thin pastry. One of the most common snacks at Malagasy street stalls, they're eaten with lime juice or chili sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a street-corner stall in Antananarivo, freshly fried triangular sambos are piled high as students and shoppers buy them one after another.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Spring roll wrappers 10
Ground Beef 250g
Onion 1
Ginger 1 piece
Garlic 1 clove
Curry Powder 2 tsp
Cilantro A pinch
Salt 1 tsp
Oil for frying To taste
Lime 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Sauté the ground meat with the onion, ginger, and garlic and season with curry powder and salt.
Mix in the chopped cilantro and cool.
Cut the spring roll wrappers lengthwise into thirds.
Place filling at one end, fold up into triangles, and seal the end with water.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Serve with lime.

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