Beef Sambousek
Ramadan Kareem, everyone! 🌙✨
May we all have a wonderful and blessed month ahead!
Ramadan’s here, which means our most famous visitor on every Ramadan table is back – sambousek!
My favorite sambousek is a beef sambousek, which I love to eat with our famous Saudi duggus dip (cilantro tomato salsa).
But how about we take it up a notch and do our own dough? Everything is just *that* much better when it’s homemade. Not to mention that every single ingredient is probably already in your pantry!
How do you like to eat your sambousek?
Ingredients:
Dough:
400 g flour
185 ml water
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp salt
Oil, for frying
Filling:
500 g minced beef
1 onion, chopped
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp minced garlic
Parsley
Green onions
Salt, to taste
Directions:
Combine flour, water, olive oil, and salt.
Knead until a dough forms, and continue kneading for 5-10 minutes until smooth.
Wrap dough to rest for 30 minutes - 1 hour.
In a pan, add oil and brown ground beef, season with salt, pepper and cumin.
Sauté onions until translucent and add garlic.
Finish with parsley and green onions.
Roll dough into a log of 8 equal pieces.
Roll each dough as thin as possible.
Place the rolled thin dough on medium heat in a pan for 2 minutes on each side.
Use a round plate to even out the edges of the dough, and divide the circle into 4 quarters.
Create a paste mixture of flour and water to use as “glue” to seal the dough after it’s filled.
Fold the dough into a cone in your hands, and fill with meat mixture.
When all the dough is filled, heat a pot of oil to fry.
Fry each sambousak until golden.
Serve hot.
Bon appétit!
