Journey of Taste: Dosa gives instant energy, it is also easy in digestion, interesting things related to this food

Swad Ka Safarnama: Dosa is considered to be the dish of the southern state. But it is continuously gaining so much fame that it is being eaten and appreciated all over India, as well as now it has become a favorite dish in many countries. Its biggest feature is that it provides energy to the body immediately after eating it. Its other specialty is that it also gets digested easily. Eat it with sambar or with tomato/red chilli chutney with the addition of coconut, the taste is such that even the soul is satisfied. You can eat dosa in the morning, afternoon or evening. This is such a dish which fills the stomach as well as gives a lot of satisfaction. It is well known that dosa is a South Indian dish, but there have been claims and counter-claims in two states about making it ‘their’.

Great breakfast, lunch and dinner too

Dosa is a wonderful breakfast as well as lunch and dinner. If it is seen being made in front, then it becomes difficult to ignore it. Till a few years ago two or three types of dosas were made, but now there is so much variety in this dish that you will be surprised. Even today the most famous are Masala Dosa, Plain Dosa and Rava Dosa, but nowadays Paneer Dosa, Tomato Dosa, Onion Dosa, Mysore Masala Dosa, Pizza Dosa, Butter Dosa are available in restaurants. You may be surprised that even chicken dosa is now available in some restaurants.

In this dosa, instead of the stuffing of potato, onion, mustard seeds, curry leaves, etc. in Masala Dosa, thin pieces of spicy chicken are stuffed. Generally, the pleasure of eating round fold or triangular dosa made from leavened paste of rice and lentils comes with hot sambar and spicy lal, along with salty coconut chutney. In many areas, only chutney is served in the dosa eaten as breakfast.

Dosa has two thousand years old history

It is confirmed that golden and crisp from outside and soft and spongy from inside dosa originated in South India. But the two states there, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, are still embroiled in debate to call it ‘their’. We do not want to get entangled in this controversy, but the stories about Dosa are interesting.

Food historian P Thankappan Nair says that dosa originated in the city of Udupi in Karnataka around the fifth century. That’s why whenever dosa is mentioned, Udupi is also associated. They say that the Chalukya king Someshwara III, who ruled Karnataka around 1126 AD, also wrote a recipe for making dosas called Dosaka in his treatise Manasolasa (a 12th century Sanskrit encyclopedia). On the other hand, another well-known food historian KT Achay has said that dosa (as Dosai) was in Tamil culture from the 1st century AD.

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There are also ‘stories’ about dosa

The third ‘story’ is that in ancient times a Brahmin was fond of drinking alcohol. Fearing social ostracism, he tried to make wine by raising the yeast of rice paste, but failed. In anger, he put the paste on a hot pan and spread it and cooked it, it became a dosa. The fourth story is about Mysore Masala Dosa.

The specialty of dosa is that it is always served fresh. Image-Canva

It is said that in the 13th century, King Wodeyar of Mysore organized a festival in his Mysore Palace. A lot of food was left after the celebration was over. He asked the cooks to find a solution to avoid food wastage. He made dosa by mixing the remaining vegetables with spices. This is how Masala Dosa was invented. We clearly want to say that dosa is Indian food and now it is not only a famous dish of the whole country, it is also liked in many countries.

Dosa is always served fresh

The specialty of dosa is that it is always served fresh, so neither upsets the stomach nor harms the body. Its biggest feature is that it gets digested easily and does not produce acid in the body. According to well-known food expert and home chef Simmi Babbar, there is a mixture of many vegetables including rice, gram, potatoes in dosa, so it provides instant energy to the body. After eating dosa, your mind and stomach will start feeling satisfied. The reason for this is that all the nutrition required by the body is available in the dosa. This South Indian dish is rich in carbohydrates and proteins, but fat is negligible. This mixture makes the body healthy and keeps diseases away. Calories are also less in it, its advantage is that by consuming it, cholesterol will not only increase, but also the risk of increasing body weight will also reduce.

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light but heavy on nutrition

The biggest mental comfort of eating dosa is that while eating it, it seems that we are feeding light food to the body, but that food also fills the stomach completely. Consider it light, but iron and calcium are also found in it. All these above mentioned elements not only make the muscles great, they are also beneficial for the bones. We can say that dosa is very close to the perfect meal that the body needs. One of its specialties is that if you are eating dosa, you will not like to eat anything else with it, whereas if you eat some other food then a lot can be eaten with it. Earlier dosa was consumed as breakfast. Now it has become a 24-hour meal.

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