"Samsa" or Samosa with chicken. An incredible Uzbek Samosa Recipe that is so easy to make. These mini filo dough pies are stuffed with a chicken and potato filling, shaped into triangles and baked until crispy. The Mediterranean taste from the seasoning with the chicken and potato filling is phenomenal.

Add in the samosas and fry for a minute till half cooked. Let it cool off a bit. Fry all the samosas till half done. You can have "Samsa" or Samosa with chicken using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of "Samsa" or Samosa with chicken

You need 2 sheets of Puff pastry.
You need 1 piece of Chicken fillet.
Prepare 1 piece of Onion.
You need 1 piece of Egg yolk.
It's 1 tsp of Cumin.
It's of Sesame seeds.
Prepare to taste of Salt, pepper.

We will fry all the samosas till half done and then fry again. Double frying gives these samosas the crunchiest texture. Now fry the samosas again till. Samosa are usually deep-fried to a golden-brown colour in vegetable oil.

"Samsa" or Samosa with chicken step by step

Finely chop the chicken fillet, onions into small cubes..
In a bowl, combine onions, fillet, onions, peppers and cumin. Mix everything..
Roll out the dough, cut into quartet pieces..
The filling should be put in the middle, and the 4 ends of the dough should be joined together..
Put the samsa on a baking tray. Anoint with egg yolk, sprinkle with sesame seeds..
Bake in a preheated oven for 30 minutes at 180°.

The traditional samsa is often baked in the tandoor, which is a special clay oven. The dough can be a simple bread dough or a layered pastry dough. The most common filling for traditional samsa is a mixture of minced lamb and onions, but chicken , minced beef and cheese varieties are also quite common from street vendors. This recipe was inspired by the traditional sambusa (also called samsa) made in Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries. The difference is that it's a lot less fatty and is baked in the kitchen oven instead of the wood fired tandir oven.