Enjoy Crispy And Delicious Samosa With Your Evening Beverage

Usually, different varieties of tasty snacks accompany our evening tea or coffee, when we spend leisure time with our family members at home. Crispy samosa is a highly popular Indian snack that is adored by all kids and their parents and even grandparents, provided they do not have high cholesterol or digestive ailments. Samosa is a triangular-shaped fried snack that is made of wheat flour with tasty filling inside. It is believed that this food originated in the Middle East and then eventually spread to other parts of Asia.

Fascination information about mouth-watering samosa recipe

Samosa Recipe

The word samosa is believed to be derived from ‘Sanbosag’, which is a Persian word. In Arab countries, people prefer to eat crescent-shaped snack that is named as Sanbusak. However, samosa has other popular names in different parts of India; like shingara in Bengal. This snack has also proved its prominent presence in other countries of the world as well.

Samosas of different types are available in all sweet shops and roadside eateries of India, from where food-lovers buy any number of this crispy snack to satisfy their taste buds. The most common type of samosa is stuffed with potato curry, which is prepared by cooking boiled potato with several traditional Indian condiments. The procedure of samosa preparation is quite simple and takes less than half an hour to make a plate of delicious samosa.

Due to the huge popularity of samosa, September 5 is now known as World Samosa Day. In this way, this snack is given worldwide recognition so that more foodie people can enjoy its wonderful taste. It is more popular than pastries and other kinds of snacks available in Western countries of the world. Many people also prefer to prepare this snack at home, due to its hassle-free recipe that can be followed even by inefficient cooks.

As samosa is a fried snack, health-conscious people may freak about the consumption of excess oil that can add to their body fats. They may opt to eat steamed or baked samosa, stuffed with healthy fillings. Though basically it is vegetarian food, some non-vegetarians prefer to put chicken, mutton or fish fillings within the triangular samosa for satisfying their appetite.

Usually, common people prefer salty samosa as a perfect snack to make beverages more enjoyable. However, sweet samosa is also made by knitting the flour dough with sugar or syrup. Then sweet semolina or sheera is preferably stuffed into this samosa, which may be enriched with raisins and cashew nuts. Sometimes, healthier ingredients, like grated apple or fig may be used as the filling of this sweet samosa.

Now, people love to eat innovative types of samosas too, which has inspired many professional chefs to experiment with a samosa recipe and invent new styles of cooking this amazing snack.