Samosa - fried savoury snack
Samosa is a popular savoury snack in India. Many may not know this, but the samosa didn't originate in India.. it is believed to have originated in Middle East (where it is known as sambosa) prior to the 10th century.
Abolfazl Beyhaqi (995-1077), an Iranian historian has mentioned it in his history, Tarikh-e Beyhaghi.
It was introduced to the Arabian subcontinent in the 13th or 14th century by traders from the region.
Amir Khusro (1253–1325), a scholar and the royal poet of the Delhi Sultanate, wrote in around 1300 that the princes and nobles enjoyed the "samosa prepared from meat, ghee, onion and so on".
Ibn Battuta, the 14th-century traveller and explorer, describes a meal at the court of Muhammad bin Tughluq where the samushak or sambusak, a small pie stuffed with minced meat, almonds, pistachio, walnuts and spices, was served before the third course, of pulao.
The Ain-i-Akbari, a 16th-century Mughal document, mentions the recipe for qutab, which it says, “the people of Hindustan call sanbúsah”.
The SAMOSA probably travelled to India in the 13th century along ancient trade routes, most likely through the silk route traders, from Central Asia.