Note: Sambusa are fried pockets filled with beef and onion from Ilhan Omar of Columbia Heights, who found that prepared egg roll wrappers worked well as a shortcut to making her own dough from scratch ...

Somali refugees enjoy fried sambusa, a pastry of spicy meat and vegetables, as an appetizer. This recipe serves about 20, or 2 per person for between 40 and 50 sambusas. Preparation takes about 90 ...

Somali flavor meets "Top Chef" Saturday in the first-ever Sambusa Cook-Off in downtown Minneapolis. In the old country, sambusa was a modest Somali snack food served during the Muslim season of ...

For Khalida Faizi, 33, sambusas are more than just a popular street food in Afghanistan. After living for 7 years in the United States, she has embraced the dish as a potent reminder of happier times ...

Myriad hands from two communities gather to create delicious Somali Sambusas and Nepali Momo. Great food isn’t just about eating—it’s about coming together to create something special. In this episode ...

WHEN HONEY MOHAMMED was 4 years old, she thought her mom, Marian Ahmed, was like Beyoncé. “You’d see her for five minutes, and then she’s off again. Who is this woman? What is her superpower? Where is ...

Minneapolis-based frozen sambusa brand Hoyo is named for the Somali word for "mother." Its founders started the business in part to provide jobs to Somali women. NINA MOINI: If you hadn't had lunch ...

Somali Bantu refugee Amina Osman makes these sambusas in huge batches with the help of many hands from family and friends in her Louisville kitchen. Sambusa pastries freeze well, unfried or fried.