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Tajik Sambusa

Name: Tajik Sambusa
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Tajikistan
Ingredients: 4 Frozen puff pastry sheet; 250g Lamb; 2 Onion; 1 tsp Cumin powder; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 1 Egg; 2 tsp White Sesame Seeds

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⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Lamb and onion wrapped in triangles of pastry and baked in a clay oven — Tajikistan's baked pie.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Unlike the fried samosas of India, Tajik sambusa are baked stuck to the inner wall of a clay oven called a tandoor. A filling of lamb, onion, and cumin is wrapped in triangles or squares, sprinkled with sesame, and baked until golden. They're sold hot at bazaar stalls and eaten with chai.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Dushanbe bazaar, triangular pies are pulled one after another from the oven wall, wrapped in paper, and handed to customers.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Frozen puff pastry sheet 4
Lamb 250g
Onion 2
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Egg 1
White Sesame Seeds 2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop the lamb and mix with chopped onion, cumin, salt, and pepper.
Cut the puff pastry into 10cm squares.
Add the filling, fold into triangles, and press the edges firmly.
Brush with beaten egg and scatter with white sesame.
Bake at 200°C for 25 minutes.

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