#4 The History of my food

Samosa you can find it in many places like in South Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, Horn of Africa, North Africa,and South Africa. Samosa it is eating by other cultures too.The current day samosas are small, crispy, flaky pastries that are usually deep-fried. Samosa it is originally are believed to be invented by the ancient Egyptians earlier on, But they are popular in central Asia. It is easily found in New York city in any Indian restaurant or you can find them in any Indian grocery in the frozen section. Which is all ready made for you. You can find different types of samosa like chicken, vegetable and onion samosa. There is many ways you can eat samosa with different types of samosa dipping. Most popular dipping for samosa are date are Date and Tamarind chutney.This chutney is sweet and sour and also little spicy.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup tightly packed seedless tamarind
• ½ cup seedless dates
•  2 cups water
•  ½ tsp roasted cumin powder
•  ½ tsp coriander powder
•  ½ tsp dry ginger powder
•  ¼ or ½ tsp red chili powder or 1 dry red chili 
• black salt or rock salt as required.

Instructions:

1. In a pan, take the tamarind, dates and water.
2. cook the tamarind and date for about 8-9 minutes on a low flame till they soften.
3. cook for a further 8-9 minutes on a low flame.
4. the mixture would thicken slightly
5. add all the spice powders - red chili powder, bring the whole mixture to a boil and dates take all the main 4 ingredients: tamarind, dates, red chili powder, dry ginger powder and roasted cumin powder.
6. stir & simmer for a further 1-2 minutes more.
7. season with salt.
8. let the chutney mixture cool down.
9. in a chutney grinder or small blender, grind the this whole mixture till smooth.
10. add some water if required while grinding.
11. strain the chutney through a strainer.
12. store the tamarind date chutney in an airtight bowl or container in the refrigerator and use it when you make chaat at home.