William Pokhlebkin

Samsa

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Ethnic Cuisines of our People
Ethnic Cuisines of our People

By William Pokhlebkin

Published 1978

  • About

Samsa are deep-fried pies of unleavened patyrcha dough (see previous recipe) with various types of filling. This one has an onion filling.

Ingredients

  • 5 onions
  • 1 spring onion
  • 2 eggs
  • black pepper

Method

Divide the dough into 50 g (2 oz) pieces, make a ball of each and roll out to pancakes 1 mm (1/16 in) thick. Chop the onions and spring onion finely, combine with the eggs, pepper and salt. Place a s