I made cheese samosas last week Sunday, the filling and pastry.  They are delicious!  I will try and upload some of the pictures that I took ASAP.  Click ‘more’ to see the recipes that I used.

I followed these recipes from Tammy’s Somali Home:

The Cheese Filling
Makes 8 large sambusa

120 g. cream cheese or 6 Kiri cheeses
1/2 onion; finely chopped
3 cloves garlic; minced
2 Tbsp. feta cheese
1/4 cup mozzarella cheese; grated
2 Tbsp. milk
3 Tbsp. carrots; grated
3 Tbsp. cilantro; chopped
Sambusa/Samosa wrappers

1. Mix the three cheeses with the garlic and milk.
2. Add the onions, carrots, and cilantro; stir.
3. Fill each sambusa cone with 1 Tbsp. of the cheese filling.
4. Seal the top seam with flour paste.
5. Preheat oil on medium heat.
6. Cook 4 sambusa at a time until golden and bubbly.
7. Remove and drain on a paper towel.

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The Wrappers

Makes 32 large sambusa/samosa

5 cups flour + extra for rolling
2 ts. salt
1/2 cup oil + extra for rolling
2 cups water
oil for frying

1. Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Knead until a smooth dough is formed.
3. Wrap in plastic wrap and let rest for 30 minutes.
4. Knead for 2 minutes and then divide the dough into 16 pieces.
5. Press down each piece to form a 3 inch circle.
6. Coat the top with oil and sprinkle with flour.
7. Make 8 stacks with 2 in each stack.
8. Press down to try to keep them equal in size.
9. Flatten with a rolling pin until each stack is about 10 inches.
10. Heat a pan on low heat.
11. Place the stacked circles in the pan. (You don’t want to cook them, you just want to dry them
out.)
12. Remove from the heat and cut in half.
13. Separate each piece. (Each 10 inch stack makes 4 large sambusa.)
14. Fold to form a cone. (See pictures.)
15. Fill with a filling of your choice and close using flour paste.

NOTE: Flour Paste – 2 Tbsp. flour + 3 Tbsp. water
In order to make my sambusa to look nice, I cut the top edges after I fill and seal them.

There is actually a couple of steps here that I skip (as I’m not good at it), I’ll update this post later on to show which steps those are in shaa’ Allaah.