Sambosak

Sambosak is one of the most popular and scrumptious appetizers in all Arabic country, Pakistan, and India, especially during Ramadan, which is the fasting month for Muslims. Sambosak is very thin type of dough look like the Chinese eggroll’s dough but longer sheets and stuffed with cooked ground meat, fine diced onion, and fine chopped parsley, then shaped like triangles and deep fried. In Saudi Arabia they stuff the sambosak with date and with cheese and serve it as an appetizer with some yogurt drink. In Syria my home they stuff it with ground lamb meat, onion, and chopped walnut with cooked thick yogurt sauce that has big pieces of meat in it and they serve them together as the main course. In Pakistan and India, they stuff the triangles with cooked ground meat, onion and cooked potato cubes with peas; they add lots of seasoning like curry spices, they serve it as an appetizer with lentil soup.

I like to make my Sambosak with meat and some with good quality melting cheese like Brie and mozzarella cheese. This appetizer dish is good finger food for kids and adults in parties and events, it’s easy to make and tasty. My kids love Sambosak over chicken nuggets and any other processed finger food.