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 ...

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.

It's tough to wrap up everything that's unfolded at Hoyo Sambusa since it started a decade ago. Hoyo, which means "mother" in Somali, was founded to help empower women from Somalia. Ghita Worcester, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Community can be built in so many different ways. At Hoyo, it's folded into every sambusa. "It's just a small community that's growing," said Mohamed Mohamed, production manager ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Khalida Faizi, 33, sambusas are more than just a popular street food in Afghanistan. After living for 7 years in the United States, she has embraced the dish as a potent reminder of happier times ...

#UniteCloud directors Natalie Ringsmuth and Haji Yussuf said they feel it is time to take their message of community to the next level. Ringsmuth and Yussuf said after the results of the election, in ...