Uzbek Samsa with Lamb and Onion(์ฐ์ฆ๋ฒก ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ์ํ ์ผ์ฌ)
์ผ์ฌ๋ ์ฃผ๋ก ํ๋๋ฅด ์ค๋ธ์ ๊ตฌ์ ์์ ์ฑ์ ๋ง๋๋ ๋ง์๋ ์ฐ์ฆ๋ฒก ํ์ด์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ฒ์ ์ ๋ค์ง ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ, ์๊ฒ ์ฌ ์ํ, ํฅ๊ธํ ํฅ์ ๋ฃ์ ๊ณ ์ ์ ์ธ ์กฐํฉ์ ๊ฐ์กฐํ์ฌ ํ๋ถํ๊ณ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฌ์ด ๋ง์ ์ ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ด์คํธ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ข ์ข ๊ธฐ๋ฒํฐ๋ก ๊ฒน๊ฒน์ด ์์ ๋์ฑ ๋ฐ์ญํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ผ์ฌ๋ ํฉ๊ธ๋น ๊ฐ์์ ๋ ๊ณ ๋๋๋๋ก ํ๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์ข์ต๋๋ค.

๐ง ์ฌ๋ฃ
- 3 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 cup Warm water
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cup Ghee or unsalted butter, melted
- 1 lb Ground lamb (preferably with 15-30% fat)
- 3 medium Medium onions, finely chopped
- 1 tsp Ground cumin
- 1 tsp Ground coriander
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 large Egg, beaten (for egg wash)
- 1 tbsp Sesame seeds (optional, for topping)
๐จโ๐ณ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ
- 1
Make the dough: In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Gradually add warm water, mixing until a soft, pliable dough forms. Knead for about 10 minutes until smooth and elastic. Cover with a damp cloth and let rest for 30 minutes.
- 2
Prepare the filling: In a separate bowl, combine the ground lamb, finely chopped onions, cumin, coriander, salt, and pepper. Mix well with your hands until thoroughly combined.
- 3
Assemble the samsa: Lightly flour a work surface and roll out the dough into a thin rectangular sheet, about 2-3mm thick. Generously spread half of the melted ghee over the dough. Roll the dough up tightly like a cigar. Cut the roll into 12 equal pieces. Flatten each piece with your palm to form a patty. Roll out each patty into a thin circle (about 6 inches in diameter). Place about 2 tablespoons of filling in the center of each circle. Fold the dough to form a triangle, pinching the edges to seal. You can also create other shapes like squares or half-moons.
- 4
Prepare for baking: Preheat your oven to 375ยฐF (190ยฐC). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease it. Place the formed samsas on the baking sheet, seam-side down.
- 5
Bake the samsa: Brush the tops of the samsas with the beaten egg wash. Sprinkle with sesame seeds, if using. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until golden brown and flaky.
- 6
Serve: Let the samsa cool slightly before serving. They are best enjoyed warm.
๐ก ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ ํ
- โEnsure the lamb filling is not too lean; the fat is crucial for flavor and moisture.
- โFor extra flaky layers, you can spread ghee on the rolled-out dough before rolling it up, then repeat the process with another layer of dough, creating a laminated effect.
- โIf you don't have ghee, unsalted butter can be used, but ghee provides a more authentic flavor.
โจ ๋ณํ ์์ด๋์ด
์ด ๋ ์ํผ๋ฅผ ๋๋ง์ ์คํ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ ์๊ฐ
- Add finely chopped fresh mint or cilantro to the filling for an herbaceous twist.
- Use beef or a mixture of lamb and beef for the filling.
- Some regional variations include finely chopped potatoes or pumpkin in the filling.