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mark w asked in Food & DrinkEthnic Cuisine · 1 decade ago

What is the origin of a beef filled turnover? Is it called something else?

I went to a restaurant years back in NYC and it was served with baklava. Would it be called beef filled turnover or knish or perhaps something else?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Also known as a Sambousa in the Middle East, Turkey, Northern Africa, Iran....

  • 1 decade ago

    In Germans from Russia cooking, we call them Fleish Keuchla(spelling sucks, I know!) Ground beef well seasoned in a dough pocket that was deep fried. I believe Britain has one called a "pasty" and was made for mens lunch boxes. The knish I have seen in recipe form had a potato onion filling but that doesn't mean someone didn't make it with beef as well. Other ethnic groups have thier own versions too, I am sure. Google meat pasty or meat turnover and see what pops up.

  • 1 decade ago

    Pastry filled with beef is common to many cuisines, prepared a bunch of different ways, with different names. Pasty (british), Pattie (caribbean), Pieroshki (Russian), Empenada (spanish/latin american). Lots more too.

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