Indian-originated
Indians take great delight in bragging about samosas wherever they go and claim it as their own, yet it isn't. Its earliest known name, Samsa, comes from the Iranian plateau in the Middle East before the tenth century.
World Samosa Day
We were surprised to learn that September 5, which is recognised as Teacher's Day, is also World Samosa Day. If this is your true love, you must spoil yourself with the tastiest samosas.
It was a vegetarian dish?
This might surprise you, but if you consider the country's culinary heritage and what the mediaeval Moroccan traveller Ibn Batuta had to say about it. “Sambusak is minced meat cooked with almonds, pistachios, onions, and spices placed inside a thin envelope of wheat and deep-fried in ghee”.
Several names of samosa
We are all familiar with samosas and singhara, but the polynym snack has more to offer. To mention a few, there are samsa, somsa, sambosa, somasi, samoosa, sambosak, sambusa, singada, samuza, and somas.
Connection with pyramids
Did you realise that the modest samosa has a shape similar to the Pyramids? In reality, it was given the name Samsa in honour of the Central Asian Pyramids.