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 ...

Minneapolis-based frozen sambusa brand Hoyo is named for the Somali word for "mother." Its founders started the business in part to provide jobs to Somali women. NINA MOINI: If you hadn't had lunch ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Myriad hands from two communities gather to create delicious Somali Sambusas and Nepali Momo. Great food isn’t just about eating—it’s about coming together to create something special. In this episode ...

#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 ...