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 ...

Shilmat Tessema has mastered making food that you don’t need utensils to eat. Tessema, head chef and owner of Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant, serves food she has been cooking and eating her whole life ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- "Hoyo" is the Somali word for "mother." "Hoyo" is also the name of a startup that is catching the attention of food lovers all over the Twin Cities. Mariam Mohamed of Shoreview ...

If the sight of these Ye Misir Sambusas (Ethiopian Lentil Samosas) immediately makes you want to prep a big batch for the freezer so you’ve got them on hand whenever the craving hits, us too. This ...

Say "sambusa" in a crowd of Somalis and mouths will start to water. Sambusa is a spicy meat mixture wrapped in pastry, deep fried and eaten as finger food, one after another. Many cultures have ...

I love getting notes, comments or emails from readers of this blog. Whether it is someone sharing a Scotch Egg recipe, or tipping me off to a new restaurant like below, talking about food is nearly as ...

NORTH MANKATO — After a second round of executive orders led the new J’s Sambusa to close, its owner found a philanthropic partner to help the restaurant give out thousands of free meals every day.

Our state is home to more Somalis and Somali Americans than any other place in the United States. Minnesotans have an invitation to discover their stories at the Minnesota History Center, where the ...

Food is an important and often undervalued way for people to share their stories and connect with their neighbors. The Sayid family, who opened The Horn Coffee on Murfreesboro Pike in 2014, has many ...