Sambusa
- Lactose free
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
- Good for lunch
- Good for a snack
Less suited for dinner.
Four Somali triangular phyllo parcels with beef, onion and cardamom; one parcel makes a main portion.
4 servingsFinal yield 720 g
Ingredients
- 200 gPhyllo dough
- 400 gBeef, ground, 85% lean meat / 15% fat, raw (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)
- 150 gOnions, raw
- 4 gSpices, cardamom
- 4 gSpices, cumin seed
- 115 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
- 3 gSalt, table
Method
- Chop onion. Fry beef in a wide pan for 5 minutes at 180 °C, add onion, cardamom, cumin and salt and fry 5 minutes more; let the filling cool.
- Cut phyllo into eight strips. Use two strips for each parcel, divide filling into four portions and fold into firm triangles.
- Heat about 750 g oil to 175 °C in a pot. Fry parcels two at a time for 3 minutes per side; 115 g oil is counted for nutrition, about 15% of the fried parcels’ mass, not of the bath.
- Drain for 3 minutes and serve one parcel per person.
Recipe tradition
Not yet verified
This recipe has not been checked against a documented culinary reference.
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 2,562 kcal
- Protein
- 91.4 g
- Fat
- 188.3 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 123.7 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 7.9 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 41.8 g
- Sodium
- 2,408.5 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 6 g
Per serving
- Protein22.8 g14%
- Fat47.1 g66%
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)30.9 g20%
Share of energy from protein, fat and carbohydrate (4 / 9 / 4 kcal per g), not share by weight.
- Energy
- 640.5 kcal
- Protein
- 22.8 g
- Fat
- 47.1 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 30.9 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 2 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 10.5 g
- Sodium
- 602.1 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 1.5 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 355.8 kcal
- Protein
- 12.7 g
- Fat
- 26.2 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 17.2 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 1.1 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 5.8 g
- Sodium
- 334.5 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.84 g
Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.
A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.
Calculation limitations
- Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
- The final yield is an editorial estimate.
- Some ingredient quantities use documented estimates or household-measure assumptions.
- The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
- Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
- Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.
Allergens
Contains: Gluten
May contain: Soy, Sesame
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Food data sources
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal