The sambousa sits on the chest of the tables, especially the Ramadan, where it is adorned with gold triangular shapes fried with oil and stuffed with vegetables, meat or cheese and others.
The origins of the sambousa are attributed to India, while some refer to the Hadramout Mountains in Yemen or to the Ottoman era. However, the most telling version is that in the book of travelers' journeys Ibn Battuta, when he visited the ruler Muhammad bin shuts in India, he introduced a dish known as Samosa It is a dough stuffed with meat and almonds and sautéed with oil.
According to some accounts, the first to be transferred from India to Yemen are the English, and then moved through pilgrims and pilgrims and traders to the Hijaz and from them to the rest of the Arab and Islamic world.