Awe-Samosas! (2024)
This warm and joyful picture book blends family tradition and creativity as Noor puts an awesome spin on her Dadijaan’s yummy but ingredient-specific samosa recipe.
It’s Noor’s first time making her Dadijaan’s Special Samosa recipe. When she can’t get in touch with her Dadijaan because it’s nighttime in Pakistan, Noor must improvise to make her family’s recipe without all of the correct ingredients.
Noor uses her creativity and problem-solving skills to create something new and exciting for her friends: flaky, super-crispy Awe-samosas!
Marzieh Abbas weaves Urdu words into her narrative of creativity, problem-solving, and love of food and cooking. Includes Dadijaan’s traditional potato and pea samosas recipe in backmatter.
by Marzieh Abbas illustrated by Anu Chouhan
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A Mouthwatering Tale For Creative Cooks. Awe-samosas is a mouth-watering intergenerational tale for all creative cooks and foodie cuties. Noor is excited that her friends are coming over, but what to serve them? She can’t find Dadijaan's recipe for her favorite crunchy snack–samosas. And Dadijaan, her grandmother, is still asleep in Pakistan. With Noor’s pet parrot’s Urdu refrain of “Everything great, everything will be okay,” she decides to improvise! Abu, her father, helps her stir up some creative fillings and they fold and fry some fresh samosas. Are they a success? Pick up your own delightful copy to find out Recipe and glossary included!
Chana Stiefel
Makes my mouth water!. Missing an ingredient to your favorite recipe? Don't give up, get creative! A cute story about creativity in the kitchen, trying new things and frying up a batch of the most awesome samosas. Love it! Now I'm off to the kitchen to see what I can make. 🙂