Minced Lamb & Onion Crescents

Name: Minced Lamb & Onion Crescents
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Africa
Ingredients: Hummus (optional); 125 g/4½ oz finely minced/ground lamb; ½ tsp sea salt; 1 onion, very finely chopped; Yogurt, Cucumber & Mint Salad (optional); 2 tbsp sunflower oil, plus extra for deep-frying; 1 recipe quantity Savoury Pastry Dough; Spinach & Sumac Turnovers (optional); Dynamite Chilli Cigars (optional); plain/all-purpose flour, for dusting; 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses; 1 tsp ground allspice; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; Lamb & Bulgur Torpedoes (optional); 2 tbsp pine nuts

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

The Jewelled Kitchen

By Bethany Kehdy

Published 2013

About

These savoury pastries are known as sambousek. They are essential to any dazzling dinner party. Pass them around with drinks and no one will ask when dinner is going to be served.

Ingredients

2 tbsp sunflower oil, plus extra for deep-frying
1 onion, very finely chopped
125 g

Africa
Middle Eastern
Starter
Pastry
Snack
Spicy
North Africa

Method

Heat the oil in a heavy-based saucepan over a medium heat and cook the onion until it’s soft and translucent. Add the lamb and brown for about 5 minutes, stirring often. Add the salt, cinnamon, allspice and pomegranate molasses and stir well to incorporate, then remove from the heat.
Toast the pine nuts in a heavy-based pan over a medium heat for 1–2 minutes un