Delicious Kashmiri chilli chicken samosa makes mouth watery of South Africans; wins contest

Johannesburg, December 29: Indian culture, tradition and food are amongst the best across the world. Though Samosa, which is filled with potato mash mixed in myriad spices is a very common snack it is served to almost 70% of Indians daily as its description is enough to make our mouth watery. Notably, delicious popular Indian snack samosa with Kashmiri chilli chicken fillings has beaten chocolate, cashew nuts and other exotic entries in a first such contest in South Africa.

 

The Indians though left their country and shifted to South Africa in a search of better lifestyle still they carried with them the taste of samosa and made a common dish, one of the most popular snacks in the African continent. Recently, the capital of South Africa, Johannesburg celebrated samosa and samosa lovers and honoured them all.

The contest was organized by the largest national newspaper the ‘Weekly Post’ for the Indian community in South Africa. Among the various entries in the competition were samosas that featured almonds and cashews drizzled with chocolate, chocolate covered in edible glitter, Margherita pizza filling and chicken jalapeno.

Salma Agjee won the contest organized by the largest national newspaper after her daughter submitted her recipe. Her dish was samosa with Kashmiri chilli chicken fillings. Agjee after winning the contest said, "I love cooking and always believe in taking a recipe a step further by adding a twist to it."

"My filling was my own invention based on what I had initially made as a chicken sandwich for my children. The chicken was cooked with Kashmiri chilli powder, then I added two types of cheese, mozzarella and gouda, and mayonnaise," Agjee said.

There were also two other sections of the competition, which was held at a public fair in Durban. Roxana Naseem, 63, who has been running a samosa-making business for several decades, showed her skill to beat others by filling 10 samosas in less than 60 seconds in a neat stack. Meanwhile, in the third section of the contest, Ebrahim Bux, 18, bagged the title of the 'fastest samosa eater' when he wolfed down 10 samosas in a minute.