ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani spread for iftar, an evening meal with which Muslims break the fast during the holy month of Ramadan, is always an elaborate one but two things are almost never missing: the samosa and pakora.
Samosas, cousins of empanadas, pasties and other dough-wrapped morsels, can be highly spicy, come in all kinds of fillings, from meat to potatoes, and are wildly popular street snacks in Pakistan and India. Pakoras are fritters that can be made from any vegetable. Arab News took to the streets of Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad to see if people’s taste buds had changed over the years and lo and behold, it looks like samosas and pakoras remain people’s favorite foods to break their fasts with this year also.
