🇹🇯 Tajik Cuisine

Sambusa Kadi

Pumpkin Pastry

Prep Time 50 min
Servings 6
Difficulty Medium
Calories 285 kcal

Sweet sambusa triangles filled with spiced pumpkin and walnuts, baked until the pastry shatters into golden flakes.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Make dough with flour, oil, water, salt. Knead until smooth, rest 20 min.
  2. 2 Cook grated pumpkin with butter, sugar, and cinnamon until soft. Stir in walnuts. Cool.
  3. 3 Roll dough thin, cut into circles.
  4. 4 Place pumpkin-walnut filling on each, fold into triangles, seal edges with fork.
  5. 5 Place on a greased baking sheet.
  6. 6 Bake at 190°C for 22-25 min until golden.

Did You Know?

In Tajik markets, you can tell the season by the sambusa filling — lamb in spring, pumpkin in autumn, herbs in summer.