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  • Serves: 10 Servings

Samsa

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Category: Vegetables

 Ingredients List

  • -FILLING------------
  • 6 oz Walnuts, shelled, crushed
  • 1 1/2 tb Sugar
  • 1 1/2 tb Butter, unsalted, softened
  • -DOUGH--------
  • 1 1/2 c All purpose flour
  • 1/2 ts Salt
  • 2/3 c Lukewarm water (110
  • -degree F)
  • 4 tb Butter, unsalted, softened
  • 4 tb Confectioner's sugar
  • 2 c Vegetable oil

 Directions

FILLING: Toss walnuts, butter, & sugar. setaside at room temperature.
DOUGH: Put flour in a large mixing bowl. Make a well in the middle pour the
water into the well, add salt, & 1/2 of the butter. Stir the flour into the
flour mix slowly until absorbed. At this point, beat the mixture firmly
until a good firm dough is made. Make the dough a ball. On floured surface,
rool the ball out into a retangle approx. 18" x 16". Brush the dough with
the remaining butter and fold into quarters. Roll it out again as thinnly
as you can. Cut dough into a rectangle 18' x 16" then cut the dough into 2"
squares. Place a teaspoon of walnut filling into the center of each square
then draw up the 4 corners to the middle. Pinch the corners together to
seal. Heat oil in a deep pot or a fry-well to 375 degrees F. Drop in 8-10
fritters at a time and fry them for 3 mins. then remove to draining rack.
Sprinkle with the Confectioner's sugar and serve. ORIGIN: Marissa Kachev,
Almaty, Kazakhstan

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