Samosa

Published on 4th November, 2016, in Dailyo.in. Samosa originated in the Middle East and was brought to India following the arrival of Central Asian Muslim kings into the subcontinent roughly 800 years ago. Was it shaped after Egyptian pyramids? We can only speculate. It was called samba or sambusa, and the filling was meat. The earliest reference to it is found 1,000 years ago in Persian literature. Amir Khusro and Ibn Batuta refer to samushak or sanbusa being served 600 years ago in the royal palaces of the Delhi Sultanate. However, today, for most people, samosa has a potato filling. This was probably an Indian ..