How 3,000 Legendary Samsas Are Baked Daily In Uzbekistan | Big Batches | Insider Food

One of the most popular street foods in Uzbekistan is a pillowy pastry filled with minced meat, spices, onions, and sometimes vegetables. Known as samsas, these pastries come in all shapes and sizes and are always baked in vertical tandoor ovens. The result is a crispy and flaky outside layer that cocoons a steaming-hot meat center.
We visited Samsa Markazi, a popular restaurant in Namangan, Uzbekistan, that makes 20 different types of samsas and sells nearly 3,000 of them every weekend.
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How 3,000 Legendary Samsas Are Baked In Uzbekistan | Big Batches | Insider Food

[@JJStarUSA]

5:01 F for the lost Samsa

[@ramisziatdinov6089]

😂😂😂

[@user-wk4ic5uq8q]

))

[@TheCosta5000]

I saw that too

[@amyr.862]

The one that got away 🤣

[@ditobear]

nooooooo

[@dEc0dEnT]

For me the best part of a good samsa is the variety of textures. The meat is soft and chewy in a good way, it's fragrant and juicy, the dough is crispy and layered, the broth (if there's any) is fat, and rich in taste. And it's quite healthy because there's barely any oil, it's not fried, plus on the side you have a traditional cucumber and tomato salad which tastes like no other veggies and it glows with freshness.

[@VARMOT123]

Always felt something similar and close to food culture with central Asia as an Indian. Would love to visit Uzbekistan

[@alexmercer664]

Try Uzbekian plov and samsas it's very good,and different from other food

[@thehumanoid6543]

Most of central Asia(pakistan, afghanistan and some of uzbekistan) was always a part of India before the mughals et al came in. Hence the migration of samsas to India as samosas. In fact IVC extended till the borders of Afghanistan.

[@sheezy2526]

@@thehumanoid6543Nope, not even India was part of India. It was a collection of kingdoms, like all the countries in Europe. Otherwise you would all have one language instead you have like 3 billion. What you are seeing now is remnants of British India

[@Zhangmengxing3236]

WOW this should not be viewed with an empty belly passed midnight... I love the fact that meat stuffed baked breads are like a universal standard of hearty good food, almost every culture in every continent has a variety of it. Even places where people don't eat wheat you can find it done with another starchy substitute. And they tastes so damn good. We have that similar oven too, it's legendary for baking if you love crust.

[@kumquatmagoo]

As a man from northern England, and an international pie lover, this looks phenomenal. The love for pie is just one more thing we have in common 😃

[@LovelyLittleLillies]

Samsa is not a pie. If it's cooked like a pie then it's diverging from traditional recipe. It's more like a dumpling that's baked or meat pastry

[@edwardjosephx]

@@LovelyLittleLillies kind of like a pie tbh

[@neojng]

would you eat horse meat?

[@elsosa7863]

@@neojng An Indian would turn around and ask you would you eat cow meat?

[@neojng]

@elSOSA no I wouldn't, I wouldn't eat any meat.

[@anathem01]

While I have not tried a Samsa (yet), I have tried Uzbek food before (in NYC), and it is fantastic. The combination of flavors, the perfect spice levels, and the freshness blew me away. I have been craving it ever since. These Samsas look amazing, I don't know how I would be able to choose just one to try!

[@Rvj.12]

Here is a interesting fact (hope you pin this) those who work on tandoor don’t have hairs on their hand because of high heat their hair on hand got burned.

[@Serkanbah]

looks delicious, Türkiye'den kardeşlerimize selamlar.

[@lucinae8510]

Growing up South Asian cuisine , I am learning a lot recently about how most of it is inspired by Persian and Central Asian cuisine. I need to eventually visit Uzbekistan to see the originals!

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[@DespothLord]

its not persion its Ottoman.

[@khaganigasimov4044]

​@@DespothLord Lucinae was talking about samosas. Also interestingly, all the rice dishes in South Asia are somehow influenced by Iranian cuisine.

[@thendino1]

You re incorrect. Many things India has produced has been hijacked by other cultures and culturally appropriated. Look at Zero and ancient medical texts! The same applies to food. Basmati rice is grown in India for 1000's of years as well as Jasmine rice. Even this video tried to make it seem as Tandoor was invented elsewhere, when it has been documented that the oldest example example of a tandoor oven was found in Indus valley civilization! In India , the use of oil to make Samosa is due to time and efficiency. It's not practical to have a Tandoor for street food. South Indian, Orissa, Bengali, Northeastern cuisine has zero influence! Only parts of north India and amongst Muslim communities show such influence due to historical invasions.

[@thendino1]

@@khaganigasimov4044 Not true. The rice dishes are Indian based. Basmati is grown in bulk and variety in India. Iran rice production is nothing and their climate could never support enough production for their population. It has always been exported by South Asia in bulk. The influence is from the Islamic Kingdoms that tried to make inroads into the subcontinent and force Persian influence. Look at Urdu vs Hindi for example....

[@Chefinator72]

30 year chef. Never had Uzbek food, now I have to find some.

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[@unpeudevin3837]

pls do!

[@Vablonsky]

Seeing how the samsas are made from dough to oven was fascinating. In the United States, nothing is cooked in such a manner. Sticking dough onto the walls of an earthen oven...outdoors. Where customers can watch the process. And, of course, the final product is alluring and delicious. A flaky exterior with succulent, juicy meat. Wow. One day, if I am so lucky, I want to try a samsa for myself.

[@Klaudiuszeg]

Lets begin with a question, which restaurant starts a day with fresh ingredients and batches every single day? Not many for sure, most of them use freezers and cant store food properly The guys in the video put some hard work every single day and make food like it is home made. The difference is just so big, they would be called a star michelin in the west.

[@fora1461]

search for Uzbek or Uygur restaurants in maps you may find in the area you are in. They make the small one with lamb or beef. most of them baking them in oven but still good.

[@Shred_Tube]

Brick Oven baked pizza is very similar. You get to watch it cook at the restaurant too

[@Vablonsky]

@@fora1461 Good idea and a good point. I should probably do that.

[@Vablonsky]

@@Shred_Tube I never considered that. But, I guess, you're right. A brick oven pizza does seem like it might be similar. And, I haven't had a brick oven pizza in a loooonnnnggg time.

[@pacificsword1632]

As an Indian this is fimiliar and yet not.. tandoors and samosas are both common but not together. We even have dough and meat cooked in tandoors of a similar nature, but not like this :) Looks tasty

[@bladekhaira]

tasty? indians eats beef?

[@theproblem9938]

@@bladekhaira india is a country. your getting mixed up with religion. Hindus and sikhs do not eat beef. Their are muslim and christian indians who can eat beef.

[@erabhikdasgupta]

@@theproblem9938 Hindus used to eat until they started to get infected from beef products. They understood infected beef was causing people to get brain disease and hence was banned. Rig veda has analogies of eating cows while later ayurveda chapters bans from eating it for the above reasons. It was also seen that loving cows gave them resistance from many deadly diseases and hence the culture of cow loving came knto picture. Hundreds of years later, it is the same love for cows that Edward Jenner saw. He observed that while entire town was getting attacked by smallpox, it affect a single person who tended the cows and cared for them. This led to the discovery of vaccinations. Some rules in religions were creates because of hypothesis. These never got proved in those era but hypothesis lead to cetain conclusion being made which further lead to brilliant scientific discoveries. The problem with knowledge getting linked to religions leads to this problem. No one goes to find the root cause because apparently wveryone keeping a cow was solving the problem 😂

[@JMStrobelful]

I'd love to visit uzbekistan, these food videos are amazing

[@firstname__lastname]

Wow. And hear I thought I'd seen almost all the types of meat with dough pastries and pies... This looks absolutely delicious!

[@staytight6340]

Samosa

[@Winterstorm137]

Yeah it’s not 😂

[@aaroncapricorn5867]

i'd put the filling in a grinder

[@Winterstorm137]

@@aaroncapricorn5867 they always have non stop power cuts in Namangan. They wouldn’t be able to grind it everyday.

[@bonjour7320]

@@Winterstorm137 manual grinder

[@SilentReflection101]

I want to fly across the world for a handful of those. I'm practically chewing my phone just watching this.

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[@AmikLanfranco]

Same!! They look so tasty

[@riderrwalker924]

its 200km away from me, I can send you one)

[@riderrwalker924]

But it wont be nearly same if it is not freshly taken from tandir

[@faran_iqbal]

same 😄

[@danq.5140]

I've watched many videos on samsas and it's quite mesmerizing. Some day I'll get to taste it for myself.

[@timtim3070]

Обожаю эту кухню!

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[@khasanalij]

Yes. It is my homeland. Wonderful Uzbekistan

[@khasanalij]

@@MegaArshak there are different types of samsas. Starting from around 40cents to around 6 US$

[@Aeybiseediy]

Is it considered expensive for locals?

[@khasanalij]

The one that's 40 cents isn't but 6$ samsa is quiet expensive for the locals so you cannot afford to buy it everyday. It's much bigger as well

[@private_world]

@@Aeybiseediy not so much

[@khasanalij]

@Herry Susanto Are you really serious?! No one in the world fasts like a Muslim does. I dare you to fast for at least 3 days in a row. We do it for at least 30 days every year!

[@uumuu]

That looks legitimately incredible wow

[@zzizahacallar]

Great report. I love watching the history of foods

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[@sa99miy]

The food looks delicious, central Asia has a lot of beautiful culture and traditions.

[@mr.biscuits2160]

My father immigrated from Uzbekistan to Israel (as a Jew, during harsh soviet rule) and since he introduced to me the Samsas I get to eat those every week. They are delicious ! Uzbek food always takes the cake

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[@user-uk5cq2xq7e]

נייס

[@mr.biscuits2160]

@@user-uk5cq2xq7e אכן בהחלט

[@martinvanburen4578]

seems kind of gross

[@Aeybiseediy]

You should go back to uzbek

[@animusdx]

Uzbekistan seems like an interesting melting pot. A lot of the people look to be a mix of various ethnicities. You have Middle Eastern + Eastern European + East Asian mixing in some of these people it looks like. Very cool.

[@lambert801]

Eastern European?

[@elluisito000]

This looks awesome 👌

[@pritpalsngh]

Ah.. the ancestor of Samosas 🥲

[@ABhattacharya]

Samosas ancestry lies in sambusaka...similar.

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

No Samosa's origin is Portuguese.

[@bg_x6558]

oh my gosh.. they look so delicious!!

[@MoonHashira.]

Man this looks really good

[@temptemp4174]

Love to Uzbekistan from Pakistan ❤️

[@nelchnelch]

Very clean comparing to India and Pakistan 😂

[@Roz390]

Incredible! So innovative, I hope to try soon!

[@scottyboy6269]

Horse meat.....mmmmmmm

[@wellnessinsider]

Awesome! Looking delicious! ❤

[@triathlete_by]

Tasty!

[@andrzejwaszkewicz3822]

We love samsa very much!

[@abdulachik]

i wanna visit uzbekistan! everything i see from there looks amazing

[@defaultworkouts]

I would like to build a skateboard park there, would be fun for young people to hang out there

[@mirkomilxudoynazarov3959]

It is really interesting to watch videos about our country. That is really attractive video 😍 Actually we don't eat too much meat. There are a lot of food that contains so much meat. However, these kinds of big samsa are usually eaten by high income class members in Uzbekistan. Sometimes middle income class families also eat these foods for enjoy. Many people are not ready to spend 6$to this delicious meals as it costs too much. Because of inflation, spending 6$ is just like spending 60$ for us. Besides our typical somsa is little smaller. But we really like this food and buy it twice or three times a month

[@alistairdimmick2886]

I heard Uzbeks eat a lot of meat, what kind of foods do the common people eat?

[@iambehryz3421]

@@alistairdimmick2886 in statistics we eat much less than other countries

[@pvtmalo3217]

Looks delicious!

[@XenXenOfficial]

Almost perished seeing a Samsas drop at 5:02

[@gavlatennis2824]

Wow those look delicious!

[@kevykev555]

Wow that looks delicious, Would love to try one day

[@dogbert52]

Looks amazing

[@darkjanggo]

5:01 RIP, brave little samsa

[@MrVoronoi]

beautiful!!

[@martinmullender-taeter5163]

tried it, its freaking amazing

[@healthytalk666]

Indeed! Looks very delicious...

[@anuraaggad]

This looks delicious. The one with cheese must be so good.

[@HFC786]

The bread and plov are synonymous with Uzbekistan

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[@ProfessorFatMan]

RIP to the samsa that falls at 5:00

[@private_world]

no ı thınk they picked it up, washed and sticked it again

[@Paulxl]

That food looks amazing.

[@RogueSystem087]

... holy crap Uzbekistan people y'all eating like gods, the food looks sooo awesomeeeeeee

[@fma1cr]

Greeting from Kazakhstan :) I love Usbekistani food.

[@thehangmansdaughter1120]

My god, that looks delicious, especially the ones with cheese. The large ones would do my whole family for dinner.

[@Monster-gr8on]

looks scrumptious

[@Mikey-xz4vn]

Dough, meat, onions, spices. The four essential food groups represented 🤤

[@worgenfreemanms5645]

They look amazing now my mouth is watering

[@liddiattgareth]

This looks lovely

[@YoutubeBobr]

Узбекская кухня одна из лучших в мире. Плов, самса, шашлыки... скатайтесь один раз в Ташкент вместо Турции.

[@JusticeUS11Bang]

I need samsas in my life. Looks delicious.

[@AmrMuhammadR]

Msh'Allah, Samsa s looking delicious = ) The food's variety in Uzbekistan is remarkable, I'm feeling hungry already

[@sheezy2526]

Do u have to praise the invisible skydaddy for everything? U do that when u poop too?

[@qwertdwlrma]

That looks really delicious

[@boathousejoed1126]

The voice is instantly recognized, Claudia!

[@Aznprada]

2:23 my man's got flies flying around... for all the effort that's gone in to the appearance of food sanitation, this is how to get a lot of people sick from one man's cooking!

[@Pawzeez92]

I love how Claudia says cucumbers so Italian 🥰

[@Radioroom91]

Looks so good

[@protopigeon]

Man these look delicious, some great skill on the tandoor ovens, and I love horsemeat!

[@josephcornejo2288]

Awesome

[@dekytay5593]

Look delicious 🤤

[@mohammedarif761]

Delicious 😋😋😋😋

[@Sjalabais]

Fantastisc!

[@goofytuna6077]

God this looks so good. I just wish one plopped right into my lap right now

[@Colombianista2412]

looks delicious

[@ImperialsArmy1]

YOOO Let me get most of that, cause that look hella good.

[@Bergen98]

As Russian who ate an astonishing amount of all the post-Soviet food - Uzbeks are only rivaled by Georgians. Samsa's are seriously life savers after long and busy days at university

[@appliedmechanical8790]

The way she said cucumber 🥰.

[@RaptorJesus.]

its always amazing seeing stuff stick to the walls of a tandoor like that :P

[@UnknownRex]

I like how the delux is just "all the things" :)

[@sunrise3154]

Love somsa, it is considered as a fast food in our region

[@vaper1986]

I want to try some.

[@louderfasterheavier4912]

OMG, what a delicious and healthy food!!! Put this place on my travel list!

[@Rihardololz]

Delicious yes but Healthy...questionable at best.

[@cntnk55]

@@Rihardololz its health, just more fat than regular food. i live in uzbekistan and its a lot healthier than burger or hot dog. u eat pure meat inside bread

[@Rihardololz]

@@cntnk55 Red meat is not healthy despite how pure it is, i still would eat it but in moderation.

[@gregorybeattie]

We love Claudia's voice, but we like to see her too!

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[@reezyb]

so good

[@madelineschultz4968]

Yummy!

[@Charlotte66666]

They look delicious 😋

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[@AustrianTutorialHD]

nope

[@jasonvoorhees5640]

you know they have horse meat in them right?

[@abbosrustamov1284]

@@jasonvoorhees5640 Not all of them, it depends on what you prefer. It's like saying all the pizza has pineapple just because one recipe does.

[@Woozlewuzzleable]

Yum, I'm glad this series and Claudia are back.

[@FOODBF]

wow your comment is very very nice

[@WiejskieInspiracjePL]

Amazing

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[@albusdumbledore9311]

In India, we have similar dish called "Samosas"

[@shadmanov]

Babur came from Uzbekistan with all food and traditions

[@abduraaahim]

Samosas too😁😁😁

[@mdhasiburrahman8806]

MASHALLAH

[@HairFollicle]

Even though ive eaten samosas my whole life the samsa is on my bucket list

[@rht100]

This looks delicious and wonderful

[@TheGeneralMod]

I can see how they are able to sell so many... They look so good

[@outofredbullagain5820]

This made me run to get a snack.

[@shikinfo]

When she said his name I thought I needed subtitles Beautiful world 🌍🌍

[@groMMit1981]

I need to visit Uzbekistan , looks delivious.

[@Laid2Rest94]

Yum, my kinda meal

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[@PolishFatBoy]

Samsas are one of my fev food

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[@josuemanuelparejacontreras6004]

What is with business insider and Uzbekistan?? This is like the 4th video about this country cousinne and I am already very hungry, everything looks amazing !!!!

[@johncameron4194]

Interesting

[@robyrcmp]

Saddened that our beautiful host never made an on camera appearance. Maybe next time we will once more be so blessed.

[@mindfortress105]

I want to travel to Uzbekistan now

[@TIPSMASAKANSEHAT]

big batches i like...

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[@123Ir0nman]

Dang I need to try these

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[@TifaTakeuchi]

Never heard the word cucumbers pronounced like that before, interesting.

[@BlackyBrownDestruction9337]

I wish we had that in Colorado