Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
Prepare all the ingredients for cooking chicken filling for samsa. Instead of the classic version of mutton with fat, chicken will be included in its composition, and the spices will remain the same: cumin, pepper and salt.
Step 2:
Chicken fillet is washed under running water, dried with paper towels, cut off excess films and fat and cut the fillet into small cubes with a sharp knife. Instead of fillets, you can also use meat from chicken breasts and even fillets from thighs. To make chicken meat easier to cut, it can be pre-removed for 5-10 minutes in the freezer.
Step 3:
Peel the onion, rinse and also cut into very small cubes. Onions can be crushed in the bowl of a blender, but in no case do we use a grater for this, since the juice released from the onion must completely get into the filling so that it is juicy.
Step 4:
In a deep container we put chopped chicken fillet, chopped onion, add spices: cumin, ground black pepper and salt.
Step 5:
Mix all the ingredients thoroughly with your hands so that the onion gives its juice and juiciness of the future filling. Let the filling infuse for 15 minutes, after which it can be used to make crispy puff samsa.
Samsa has become widespread in Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and many others. In modern cooking, there are different variations of cooking samsa, but the dough does not change: it is always bland and, as a rule, flaky. The form can be different. We are most familiar with the triangular shape, but samsa is also prepared both oval and square.
Ideally, samsa is baked in a clay wood-burning oven (tandoor), which is heated to very high temperatures. But at home, samsa is baked in a conventional oven, which is heated to 200-220oC.
Thanks to the large number of onions, the filling turned out to be very juicy, the aroma of cumin is very pleasant. For more juiciness, you can add mushrooms or pumpkin, and for flavor – your favorite greens. It is worth recalling that the filling in samsa is always used raw, and it does not matter whether it is meat, pumpkin or greens.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Zira - 112 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast (fillet) - 113 kcal/100g
