Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cheese sambousek. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Small, cheese-filled pastries, eaten as snacks. This recipe comes from the book "A Baker's Odyssey" by Greg Patent. Cheese Sambousek - Crispy, chewy Middle Eastern cheese rolls filled with herbed Egyptian white cheese and mozzarella.
Cheese Sambousek is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Cheese Sambousek is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cheese sambousek using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cheese Sambousek:
- Get For the dough:
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- Prepare 1 egg
- Take 1 teaspoon sugar
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 4 tablespoons butter, equivalent to 1/2 stick, heated for 15 seconds in microwave
- Prepare 1/2 cup water
- Prepare For the stuffing:
- Prepare 2 cups mozzarella cheese, thick style
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon olive oil
- Get 1/4 teaspoon dried mint
- Make ready 1/4 cup parsley leaf, flat
- Make ready pinch of black pepper
- Get 1/4 teaspoon salt
Sambousek also pronounced Samboosak, or Sambousak is a small meat pie, served as mezze (appetizer) or snack. It is usually filled with ground beef or lamb. Shaped and prepared like ghughras, the Spinach and Cheese Sambousek is a famous Lebanese dish that features a plain flour shell containing a succulent spinach and cheese mixture. Cheese Sambousek are a popular item on a mezza table and during special occasions.
Instructions to make Cheese Sambousek:
- In Food processor or in stand up mixer, put flour, salt and sugar and mix.
- Add egg and melted butter and then gradually add water until a ball forms.
- Rest dough for 30 minutes in oil coated bowl and cover it, so the dough doesn't dry.
- In the meanwhile, prepare stuffing: In a bowl mix mozzarella cheese, parsley, mint, salt, pepper and olive oil.
- After the dough had rested dust some flour on a hard surface. Do not use a lot of flour because you want the dough to still stick to each other when forming the crescents.
- Form the dough into a big round circle and using a cover of a Tupperware or anything round that has edges, cut circles through the dough.
- Take the irregular shaped dough out and form a ball, then let it rest for about 15 minutes.
- Now put some stuffing in the circle slightly to one side but keep it away from the edges.
- Then close the dough as if forming a semi circle and then with holding the bottom part and pulling it up with a twisting motion all the way until it closes. You can also use a fork dipped in egg wash to seal the edges, although I don't know how the cheese would hold in there while frying.
- After you finish all the pies and after the leftover dough from the previous circle has rested for 15 minutes, repeat the previous steps.
- Heat fryer to 350 degrees and deep fry pies until light golden brown.
Sambousek also called samboosak in some Middle Eastern regions, is a fried stuffed pastry. It can be stuffed with cheese, meats, and spices. cheese sambousek nutrition facts and nutritional information. Sambousek is pretty popular in Egypt. Traditionally, Sambousek is usually shaped like a half moon, however, I've seen them shaped as triangles as well and other shapes. Cheese Samosa Recipe - Cheesy Samosa Recipe - Ramzan Iftar Recipes.
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