Sambusak se samosa Tak...... Flashback to 20 years, and I would walk to the Jaleebi and samosa khomchewalla every Sunday to have our fill of Jalebi samosa, one sunday it would be swapped by kacchori and other samosa would be back on the dinning tables⊠When I stared researching on Food and realised that samosa was originally not conceived in India, it did pain a bitâŠ..but alas I got over it sooner because not in my dreams I would ever keep samosa away from me. Everytime you bite into a piece of crisp pastry of samosa filled with goodness of potatoes or keema you actually are biting into 800 years old history of food. .. The first mention of Samosa as Sanbusaj is in âKitab al-Tabikhâ ie A Baghdad cookery book, first commissioned in 13th Century. In the book, recipe of  Sanbusaj has Maqluba, a meat  filling cooked with sumac and dried spices which is gradually filled into strips and is given a triangle shape.A very hearty and meaty way of consuming our humble samosa what we know if in India today. The 2nd mention moves from Sanbusaj to sambusak which is described by Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century traveler and explorer- he describes a meal at the court of Muhammad bin Tughluq, where  samushak or sambusak, a small pie stuffed with minced meat, almonds, pistachios, walnuts and spices, was served before the third course, of elaborate pulaos. And so somewhere with Turk Sultan Muhammad Bin Tugulaq,  undivided India got its samosa, which remained the rich sambusak even in Mughal courts. For about 600 years from the time it came to India it was a delicacy of courts and was limited to rich and famous⊠Over years it graduated as luqmi in Hyderabad and reached aristocrats and now available at local eateries.. The transformation of  fragrant meat filling to humble potato seems like across marriage between arrival of Portuguese with potatoes and chilies and fall of Mughal courts about 100 years  later with East India company ruling our shores, somewhere post that or rather inbetween this juncture our humble samosa must have been born. But beauty of samosa is not limited to India and part of undivided India i.e. Burma took samosa to another level and called it Somousa Touk ie Samosa soup The beauty of this amazing hot favourite street food will always let out platters shineâŠ..lets celebrate the love this dish evoke whenever we indulge in it.....Satiation of soulÂ
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