DISH RESEARCH · Snack
Chamussas
Also known as: Samosas, Chamuça
Handmade triangular pastries filled with minced lamb, onion, ginger and curry seasoning.
About Chamussas
ForEver Pemba shares Isabel Filipe's chamussas alongside memories of the pastries sold on Pemba's streets and beaches. This lamb rendition encloses a cooked filling in thin, handmade pastry triangles.
Onion, garlic and ginger cook in butter before curry seasoning and minced lamb join them. Citrus juice, coriander, salt and pepper season the filling, which cools before wrapping.
The dough sheets are briefly cooked on a hot plate, cut and folded around the meat. A flour-and-water paste seals the final fold before frying, and the chamussas are served warm.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Chamussas
Isabel Filipe's lamb chamussas shared by ForEver Pemba.
- Flour without raising agentBaseIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- VinegarLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- OilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- ButterCooking medium
- OnionAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- GingerAromatic
- Caril seasoningSeasoning
- Minced lambProtein
- Limão juiceLiquidIngredient page not linked
- CorianderAromatic
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Flour without raising agent: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual6/9/21 main dough, dust and sealingpaste flour, only generic cereal unprovided; no Wheat inferred.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual7/22/24/30/35 dough/seal/conditional fillingwater consolidated.
- Vinegar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual8/24 unspecified vinegar type.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual9/19/26/29 dough/filling consolidated.
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual9/24/38 dough and frying oil, botanical source unprovided.
- Butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual11/28.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual12/28.
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual13/28.
- Ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual14/28 gratedginger.
- Caril seasoning: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual15/29 spoon caril prepared curry seasoning, exact full blend unprovided/no own component link; no Mustard inferred.
- Minced lamb: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual16 borrego actually offered selected over pork; no invented beef restoration.
- Limão juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual17/29 limao juice wording in Mozambican Portuguese source, precise lemon-versus-lime identity not independently verified; no forced species.
- Coriander: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual18/31 choppedfreshbunch.
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual19/29 generic pepper species/form unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Mozambique
- MozambiqueCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Mozambican Cuisine
- Mozambican CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.