#sambusa

[colombiacaribe]

[dispossesst]

Aunties making sambusa (2023), oil on water colour paper if you like this stuff you can see more of my here (shop)

by @ayshapaints

[paulpingminho]

[berrymehorizon]

Sambusa This recipe is from Somalia. I picked it up by observing my Somali friends during Ramadan and was able to create my own version of it. I can't stop eating them because they are so delicious. They are offered at Ramadan meals, weddings, parties, and other events. An encased cone-shaped package of seasoned ground beef is deep-fried. Ground beef can be changed up by being replaced with shredded beef.

[extension-khirkee]

Sambusa This is a Somali recipe. I learned it by watching my Somali friends around Ramadan and I was able to make my own variation. They are really good and I can't stop eating them. They are served during Ramadan, Weddings, Parties, or just because. A seasoned ground beef mixture is wrapped in a cone shaped package and deep fried. For a variation you can substitute shredded beef for ground beef. 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 small onion finely chopped, 2 teaspoons ground cardamom, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 pounds ground beef, 2 teaspoons ground cumin, 1 tablespoon water or as needed, 1 quart oil for frying, 1 leek chopped, 1 package spring roll wrappers, 1 teaspoon pepper, 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour, 1 clove garlic minced

[meoverthere]

Sambusa This recipe is from Somalia. I picked it up by observing my Somali friends during Ramadan and was able to create my own version of it. I can't stop eating them because they are so delicious. They are offered at Ramadan meals, weddings, parties, and other events. An encased cone-shaped package of seasoned ground beef is deep-fried. Ground beef can be changed up by being replaced with shredded beef.

[tatert07s]

all cultures are related in one way or another because everyone has either a variation of plov or sambusas.

[morethansalad]

Vegan Lentil Sambusa Pie (Ethiopian Street Food)

[myfootyrthroat]

My new favorite burger place has banging pierogi, but I just found out that on the weekend they also make kolache? What a time to be alive.

[nebulouscoffee]

Sorry to correct you but. Samosa is an indian dish not Kenyan

Hello anon! LOL okay I never expected to get into Samosa Discourse on my Star Trek blog but I happen to love food and history and the history of food so here we go😂

You are correct that samosas are not native to Kenya- and yes, India is by far the country most associated with samosas in the popular imagination (for good reason, samosas are pretty much omnipresent throughout India!) But while samosas are not originally from Kenya, that doesn't mean (imo at least) that they cannot be counted as part of Kenyan cuisine. (Which I didn't even necessarily do in that post, but I understand your position so I'll elaborate on those terms!)

Kenya is a multi-ethic country made up of several African peoples and migrant communities, including Kenyan Asians. Now, the history of South Asians living in/trading with East Africa goes back centuries, but there was also this huge (and deeply colonial) boom in the Asian population during the late 1800s-early 1900s when the British sent tens of thousands of indentured Indian labourers to Kenya to build the Uganda railway. (There is a LOT more history I could get into re the British East Africa Protectorate and the complicated social dynamics between African & Asian communities at the time, but that's not really relevant to samosas so I'll spare you.)

Anyway, modern day Kenya still has a considerable South Asian population, and as such (again not getting into the more complicated social dynamics here), Kenyan cuisine has a lot of Indian (and Arab) influences. But beyond that- Swahili culture(s) and cuisine(s) evolved over centuries of interaction between the various (predominantly Bantu) peoples of East Africa and traders from West, Central & South Asia (who brought in- among other things- their own spices), so cultural intermingling has always been a staple of the East African coast (which is geographically SO close to Asia!) If you were to walk around some of the bigger, more Asian diaspora-heavy cities of Kenya, like Mombasa or Nairobi, you'd find plenty of chicken/fish-based coconut curries & stews that strongly resemble Indian ones- as well as rice-based dishes like pilau & biriyani, rotis, chapatis, bhajias (called 'bajjis' in certain parts of India), kheemas, kebabs- and yes, samosas. Or sambusas, as they're often called in Kenya.

And what's more- the samosa (originally 'samsa' iirc) likely originated in Central Asia in the first place! It still goes by other names in West Asia and North Africa too; as do several other dishes-in-common. In fact, kuku paka (a dish I mentioned in the post that prompted this ask) is a Kenyan chicken curry with distinct Indian & Arabic influences. So if samosas can qualify as Indian cuisine (which, they undoubtedly do), imo they can qualify as a part of Kenyan cuisine too! Anyway I'm truly sorry I let this ask get SO far away from me lmao, I guess I've always felt a bit alienated by this growing tendency in Asian & African communities to sort of rigidly and unquestioningly (even proudly) uphold colonial divides when our cultures are actually so sprawling and ancient? Like sure, we are not monoliths, and it is important that people learn that- but also, so many political borders across both continents didn't even exist as they are today even a hundred years ago. It's so cool how much there is in common! Food, like so many other aspects of culture, is often migratory and full of varied influences, and that's just so deeply human and beautiful and fascinating to me

[killjoynest]

im not doing anything productive i sit here and eat samosas like its going out of style

[blessedcactus]

😭 aw hell, took my medications, and that turned out bad.

[tarou-marus]

I feel like pink diamond/stevonnie in that one dream where she’s demanding her own planet except about literally anything other than soft food

[pingnova]

Spent some formative years in a primarily East African Muslim community and the three things that stick with me are 1) love to hear and miss hearing the adhan throughout the day 2) get a weird feeling and realize it's that there are literally zero hijabi around and I was clocking it subconsciously 3) not enough places serve food with fucking long grain rice. I miss the damn rice.

Fourth point: no spiced tea and sambusa. Or it's weird sambusa.

Spent my next chunk of formative years in an east and south east Asian enclave and 1) not enough places serve enough variations on herbed soups 2) bakeries in non-asian communities literally cannot compare 3) I miss being randomly invited to a family cookout that consists of approximately five thousand people 4) miss the old ladies that would ply me with bundles of herbs and roots when I was sick, they were the sweetest

[tastymelonfarm]

I’m like 3 stressful things away from driving 8 hours to get chai from the horn in nashville

[everythingwithwasabi]

Crispy Sambusas