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Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 eggs, 100g chocolate, 1 cup flour

Vegan Lentil Sambusa Pie – the favored Ethiopian Street Food “Sambusa” was a savory vegan pie that your family and friends will love! No must make your personal crust – this recipe makes use of vegan puff pastry! Nutfree Soyfree , Glutenfree choice

If you’re keen on samosas, this Ethiopian Vegan Lentil Pie – aka Sambusa Pie – will probably be your new favourite factor to eat!

Sambusa is widespread avenue meals and a extremely popular snack in Ethiopia the place it could be served contemporary off the fryer. While they’ll have many various fillings, this vegetarian model with lentils is my favourite. It’s savory and flavorful and splendidly satisfying!

You learn pie and your thoughts instantly jumps to “time-consuming” and “finicky”? Oh, you’ll love this half: the pie crust is comprised of store-bought vegan puff pastry!

Yes, we take the shortcut right here, and belief me, you’ll not remorse it! The filling has a lot taste and makes for an incredible snack or facet!

Is Puff Pastry Vegan?

Puff Pastry — flaky, buttery goodness and clearly not all the time vegan. In truth, puff pastry is historically made with butter and often brushed with egg earlier than baking.

However, many store-bought puff pastries are made with out dairy or egg as a result of it makes them extra shelf-stable so test your grocery shops for these by accident vegan puff pastry.

To make Sambusas, use spring roll wrappers dough. Shape into cones, fill, Fold and seal utilizing a mixture of flour and water and bake at 400 deg F till golden.

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Prep your lentils by washing and draining if you happen to’re utilizing canned lentils or making your lentils from dried if you have not made but.
Heat a skillet over medium warmth and add oil. Then add onion and a great pinch of salt and cook dinner till the onion begins to get golden.
Then add within the inexperienced onion, garlic, inexperienced chili and one other pinch of salt and cook dinner till the garlic is cooked via. 3-4 minutes.
Then add in the entire spices and blend in and proceed to cook dinner for an additional minute.
Add within the lentils, cilantro, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and a 1/4 cup of water and blend effectively after which proceed to cook dinner to simmer the lentils for 3 or 4 minutes.
Then style and regulate taste. Add a splash of the lemon juice. Mix in and put aside.
Prep your rolling station with a little bit little bit of flour and roll out the partially thawed puff pastry sheet till it’s nearly double in dimension. Then slice it into half lengthwise.
Put the lentils which needs to be cool by now. Use cool lentils on one of many pastry sheets. Spread it out and put the opposite pastry sheet on it. Keep about 1/2 inch on the sides of the pastry sheet so you possibly can seal them. Brush water on the sides.
Using a fork, seal the pastry sheets. Also utilizing the fork, create some holes on the highest of the pie or use a scissor to chop up a little bit little bit of holes on prime of the pie.
Then bake at 400 levels Fahrenheit (205 c) for 20-25 minutes or till properly golden brown and puffy throughout.
Then take away from the oven. Let it cool for 5-10 minutes. Then slice as you want and serve. Serve as is or with sauces of selection or some tahini lemon dressing or different creamy sauces

To make this gluten-free, use a gluten-free pie crust of selection. Such as my almond flour crust or different sturdy gf flour primarily based crusts
Berbere: You could make your personal Berbere spice blend , or use madras curry powder or different blends of selection.

Calories: 174kcal, Carbohydrates: 19g, Protein: 5g, Fat: 9g, Saturated Fat: 2g, Sodium: 170mg, Potassium: 211mg, Fiber: 4g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 174IU, Vitamin C: 9mg, Calcium: 21mg, Iron: 2mg

Nutrition info is mechanically calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.

Ingredients:

lentils, drained or cooked lentils
a mixture of sauteed purple and onion provides plenty of umami
garlic, ginger and inexperienced chili are added for spiciness and oomph
floor spices: we use a punchy mix of floor coriander, cumin, berbere, cardamom, black pepper
contemporary chopped cilantro provides freshness together with lemon juice, which brightens up the flavour profile of the lentils and takes out any muffy notes
the pastry case is made utilizing 1 sheet of vegan puff pastry

Tips

To make this gluten-free, use a gluten-free pie crust of selection and both make hand pies or a bigger pie as you want
Play round with the quantity of inexperienced chili – I often add 3 or 4 however it may get actually scorching actually rapidly , or use 3 delicate inexperienced chilis
If the lentils are too moist, You can add in 2-3 tablespoons of breadcrumbs to cut back the moisture. or if it’s too fry, add in some broth
The filling must be cool when added to the pastry. You could make it forward of time, if you wish to.

How to make Ethiopian Lentil Sambusa Pie:

Prep your lentils by washing and draining if you happen to’re utilizing canned lentils or making your lentils from dried if you happen to haven’t made them but.

Heat a skillet over medium warmth and add oil. Then add onion and a great pinch of salt and cook dinner till the onion begins to get golden.

Then add within the inexperienced onion, garlic, inexperienced chili and one other pinch of salt and cook dinner till the garlic is cooked via. 3-4 minutes

Then add in the entire spices and blend in and proceed to cook dinner for an additional minute.

Add within the lentils, cilantro, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and a 1/4 cup of water and blend effectively after which proceed to cook dinner to simmer the lentils for 3 or 4 minutes.

Then style and regulate taste. Add a splash of the lemon juice. Mix in and put aside.

Prep your rolling station with a little bit little bit of flour and roll out the partially thawed puff pastry sheet till it’s nearly double in dimension. Then slice it into half lengthwise.

Add the lentils which needs to be cool by now. Use cool lentils on one of many pastry sheets. Spread it out and put the opposite pastry sheet on it. Keep about 1/2 inch on the sides of the pastry sheet so you possibly can seal them. Brush water on the sides.

Using a fork, seal the pastry sheets. Also utilizing the fork, create some holes on the highest of the pie or use a scissor to chop up a little bit little bit of holes on prime of the pie.