🇱🇧 Lebanon
Sambousek
Lebanese sambousek comes in two moods: cheese with parsley, or spiced meat with pine nuts.
🔪 Prep: 40 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Meat filling sweetened with onion and pine nuts; crescents crimped by hand and fried.
Ingredients
- 400 gflour
- 120 mloil, plus more for frying
- 300 gground beef or lamb
- 1 onion, minced
- 30 gpine nuts
- 1 tspseven-spice
- 1 tspsalt
Method
- 1
Knead flour, oil, salt, and warm water into a soft dough; rest 30 minutes.
- 2
Brown the meat with onion, spices, and pine nuts, then cool.
- 3
Roll the dough thin, cut circles, fill, fold into crescents, and crimp the edge.
- 4
Fry until golden, or bake with an egg-wash for a lighter version.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6