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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 (109g)

Recipe makes 8 servings

Calories 90
Calories from Fat 14 (16%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 1.6g 2%
Saturated Fat 1.0g 4%
Monounsaturated Fat 0.4g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.1g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 3mg 1%
Sodium 22mg 0%
Potassium 418mg 11%
Total Carbohydrate 17.4g 5%
Dietary Fiber 2.4g 9%
Sugars 1.1g
Protein 2.3g 4%

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Potato and Pea Sambusa (Somali)

Recipe #386552 | 30 min | 25 min prep | add private note
Jamilah's Kitchen

By: Jamilah's Kitchen
Aug 21, 2009

We have a Somali community where I'm from and this potato and pea version of Sambusa is my favorite. double this recipe as needed

SERVES 8 , 8 sambusa (change servings and units)

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1
    1. Heat the butter in a large frying pan; add the ginger, cumin seeds, curry powder, and garam.
  2. 2
    marsala and fry lightly for 1 minute or until very fragrant.
  3. 3
    2. Add the potato and 3 tablespoons of water and cook over low heat for 15-20 minutes or until.
  4. 4
    the potatoes are tender.
  5. 5
    3. Add the peas, cilantro, and green onion and stir through.
  6. 6
    4. Set aside to cool.
  7. 7
    5. Fill each uncooked sambusa wrapper with a spoonful of the filling.
  8. 8
    6. Close top using a flour paste. (Few Tablesppoons of flour and little water until pasty).
  9. 9
    7. Fry until golden brown.
  10. 10
    8. Remove from oil and drain on a paper towel.

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From: UmmBinat

On Sep 12, 2009

The filling was good for my sister and I as a vegetarian main dish though I used a modification of Julie's Curry Powder Mix which is a "sweet" not hot curry powder mix as we dont like hot spicy. Saying that I doubled it to give more flavour. I used a canola olive oil mix instead of butter to be dairy free and cumin seed in a lesser amount. I used a garam masala spice mix I had made previously from Zaar I think. For the potatoes I used yellow ones. I didnt have any cilantro left so I added parsley and ground coriander instead. I would like to try fresh cilantro another time. The sambousa wrappers were not in the ingredients and not knowing about what sambousa is to somalians I did not realise I would need them but it worked out fine as the filling was good as a dish alone which I served with white basmati rice, Cucumber Salad With Yogurt (Middle East, Palestine) and Tomato and Mint Salad (Shirazi) for a good pretty quick vegetarian meal.

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