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Chamuças

Name: Chamuças
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Mozambique
Ingredients: 12 Spring roll wrappers; 250g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 1 clove Garlic; 1 Green Chili Pepper; A pinch Cilantro; 1 tsp Curry Powder; 1/2 tsp Garam masala; 1 tbsp Lemon juice; 1/2 tsp Salt; 1 tbsp All-purpose flour; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Spiced ground beef folded into triangles and fried — a popular Mozambican snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chamuças are Indian samosas that arrived by way of Portugal; in Mozambique, ground beef, chicken, or tuna is sautéed with spices, wrapped into triangles, and fried. Essential at weddings and birthday parties and often nibbled with beer, they reflect the history of Indian Ocean trade.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a birthday party in Maputo, a table is piled with triangular fried pastries and small dishes of piri-piri sauce as people help themselves.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Spring roll wrappers 12
Ground Beef 250g
Onion 1
Garlic 1 clove
Green Chili Pepper 1
Cilantro A pinch
Curry Powder 1 tsp
Garam masala 1/2 tsp
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
All-purpose flour 1 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Stir-fry the ground beef, add the chopped onion, garlic, chili, spices, and salt, and cook until dry.
Mix in the lemon juice and chopped cilantro and cool.
Cut the spring roll wrappers into long strips, fold into triangles around the filling, and seal with flour mixed with water.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Serve with piri-piri sauce or lemon.

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