Where Our Beloved Samosas Came From ?

[JANASENA]

Samosa and chai are the best travel buddies you will find when you make your way through India. And it seems that they served the same purpose through history too!

One of the earliest references to the samosa comes from an Arab cookbook from the 10th– 11th century CE. The sambusak, as it was called (and still is in the region) seemed to have been a snack popular among the traveling merchants who often sat around campfires nibbling on these small mince-filled triangles.

 

Food historian Colleen Taylor Sen in her book Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India, states that the word sambusak may have come from the Arabic se which means three, referring to the three sides and ambos which is a kind of a bread. According to the Oxford Companion to Food, the popularity of the sambusak was thanks to the convenience of carrying them.

They were easy to pack into saddlebags and took care of the next day’s journey!

The snack was not just popular, it was already versatile. A thirteenth-century Baghdadi cookbook, Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Dishes), offers recipes for three versions of the sambusak. One, filled with meat and flavoured with coriander, cumin, pepper, cinnamon, mint and pounded almonds; the second with halwa; and a third with sugar and almonds.

In fact the sambusak, sanbosag and the sanbusaq as it was varyingly called, finds frequent mention through history. It was probably through the merchants who traveled on the old silk route or the Arab traders who traded along the Indian coast, that the samosa came to India.

The first reference to the snack in India comes from the chronicles of the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta in the 14th century CE. He made a note of a meal in the court of Muhammad-bin-Tughluq, and referred to the sambusak– ‘A small pie stuffed with minced meat, almonds, pistachio, walnuts and spices’. According to food historian Colleen Taylor Sen, ‘The samosa is mentioned by the Persian historian Abul-Fazl Beyhaqi, one of the Navratnas of Akbar’s court, in the 16th Century as sanbusa or qutab (a Turkic word still used in Azerbaijan for samosa). Abul-Fazl described it as ‘A dainty delicacy, served as a snack in the great courts of the mighty Ghaznavid empire. The fine pastry was filled with minced meats, nuts and dried fruit and then fried till it was crisp.’

Today there are more kinds of samosa than you can count on your fingertips. The purely vegetarian, potato filled, popular variety is probably an Indian innovation. But given the fact that the potato itself came to India only in the 17th century CE (and was made popular, much later), means that the street variety of samosa is of a more recent origin.

[tortoise]

samosa 

[vendetta]

samosa tinali anpistundi 

[JANASENA]

Just now, tortoise said:

samosa 

[holycow205]

4 minutes ago, vendetta said:

samosa tinali anpistundi 

nuvvu undedi cali ey kada...akkada bane dorkutai kada...

[vendetta]

Just now, holycow205 said:

nuvvu undedi cali ey kada...akkada bane dorkutai kada...

untay , but entaina hyderabad lo tintene baguntadi, atleast oka 10 people toh kalsi tinte baguntadi

[Kontekurradu]

Hyd cafe lo, punjabi samosa with fried chilli, mast vuntadi 

[holycow205]

3 minutes ago, vendetta said:

untay , but entaina hyderabad lo tintene baguntadi, atleast oka 10 people toh kalsi tinte baguntadi

+100. aa endalu...aa matti...aa dhooli madyalo...samosa tintunteeee naa sami rangaa..

dont forget mirchi though! 

[Kool_SRG]

[Bathai_Babji]

19 minutes ago, JANASENA said:

Samosa and chai are the best travel buddies you will find when you make your way through India. And it seems that they served the same purpose through history too!

One of the earliest references to the samosa comes from an Arab cookbook from the 10th– 11th century CE. The sambusak, as it was called (and still is in the region) seemed to have been a snack popular among the traveling merchants who often sat around campfires nibbling on these small mince-filled triangles.

 

Food historian Colleen Taylor Sen in her book Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India, states that the word sambusak may have come from the Arabic se which means three, referring to the three sides and ambos which is a kind of a bread. According to the Oxford Companion to Food, the popularity of the sambusak was thanks to the convenience of carrying them.

They were easy to pack into saddlebags and took care of the next day’s journey!

The snack was not just popular, it was already versatile. A thirteenth-century Baghdadi cookbook, Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Dishes), offers recipes for three versions of the sambusak. One, filled with meat and flavoured with coriander, cumin, pepper, cinnamon, mint and pounded almonds; the second with halwa; and a third with sugar and almonds.

In fact the sambusak, sanbosag and the sanbusaq as it was varyingly called, finds frequent mention through history. It was probably through the merchants who traveled on the old silk route or the Arab traders who traded along the Indian coast, that the samosa came to India.

The first reference to the snack in India comes from the chronicles of the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta in the 14th century CE. He made a note of a meal in the court of Muhammad-bin-Tughluq, and referred to the sambusak– ‘A small pie stuffed with minced meat, almonds, pistachio, walnuts and spices’. According to food historian Colleen Taylor Sen, ‘The samosa is mentioned by the Persian historian Abul-Fazl Beyhaqi, one of the Navratnas of Akbar’s court, in the 16th Century as sanbusa or qutab (a Turkic word still used in Azerbaijan for samosa). Abul-Fazl described it as ‘A dainty delicacy, served as a snack in the great courts of the mighty Ghaznavid empire. The fine pastry was filled with minced meats, nuts and dried fruit and then fried till it was crisp.’

Today there are more kinds of samosa than you can count on your fingertips. The purely vegetarian, potato filled, popular variety is probably an Indian innovation. But given the fact that the potato itself came to India only in the 17th century CE (and was made popular, much later), means that the street variety of samosa is of a more recent origin.

[Bhai]

lol

[mettastar]

Biryani turkolladhe, haleem turkolladhe samosa turkolladhe.. mana foods evi man iga..

[mettastar]

Pappu sambar all veg curries manollava?

[4Vikram]

39 minutes ago, holycow205 said:

+100. aa endalu...aa matti...aa dhooli madyalo...samosa tintunteeee naa sami rangaa..

dont forget mirchi though! 

evening 4-5 lopu or a bit early apudu fresh ga estaru abba irani hotel lo samosa chai malla cigarette abba aa rojule verappa 

[mettastar]

2 minutes ago, mettastar said:

Biryani turkolladhe, haleem turkolladhe samosa turkolladhe.. mana foods evi man iga..

+chai