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Samoosas is a signature dish of South Africa; we have verified places to eat it in Cape Town. Thin pastry triangles filled with spiced mince, chicken or potato and deep-fried to order. Start with where to eat Samoosas in Cape Town.
Thin pastry triangles filled with spiced mince, chicken or potato and deep-fried to order. South African samoosas run smaller than Indian ones, which is why they are sold three to a bag.
The samoosa came to the Cape twice over: with people enslaved and exiled from Bengal and the Indonesian archipelago from the 1650s, and again with Indian traders and labourers arriving from the 1860s who set up the roti and masala counters that Athlone and Rylands still run. South African samoosas are smaller than Indian ones, wrapped in a thin flour pastry rather than a thick shortcrust, and fried rather than baked. In Bo-Kaap they are sold alongside daltjies, the chilli-bite fritters of gram flour and spinach that are the other half of any Cape Malay snack box.
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