🇪🇬 Egypt
Sambousek
Egypt's sambousek often goes big on white cheese with mint, sold hot from Ramadan carts.
🔪 Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 15 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Cheese-and-mint filling in a thinner wrapper, often made with spring-roll pastry for extra crunch.
Ingredients
- 20 sheetssamosa or spring-roll pastry
- 300 gwhite cheese, crumbled
- 2 tbspdried mint
- 1 egg (to seal)
- to tasteoil for frying
Method
- 1
Mix the cheese with mint.
- 2
Fold spoonfuls into pastry triangles, sealing the last flap with egg.
- 3
Fry until blistered and golden.
- 4
Serve hot — in Ramadan, straight to the iftar table.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6