Definition of dosa in English:
dosa
nounPlural dosai, Plural dosasˈdəʊsə
(in southern Indian cooking) a pancake made from rice flour and ground pulses, typically served with a spiced vegetable filling.
I feel like eating a masala dosa
Example sentencesExamples
- The 42-year-old activist has been running the small eating joint, popular for its piping hot idlis and dosas, for over two decades now opposite.
- There is also a ‘dosa festival’ at which as many as 130 varieties of dosas will be served between 4 and 9 p.m, every evening.
- All through the noon hour, fresh dosas and naan kept coming.
- There are vegetable springrolls, sandwiches, burgers, dosas and milk shakes to make it a sumptuous eat for all.
- There is a dosa and omelette counter, pasta and salad bars, as well as a spread of old favourites.
- Soaking the rice in boiling water for dosais and idlis seems to be a new concept.
- The customers were served dosas on plantain leaves, and after washing their hands with soap-nut power, they were served hot coffee.
- A live food counter would serve hot dosas and appams prepared right in front of your eyes.
- Idlis and dosas need not be prepared only from rice flour.
- In the land of idlis and masala dosas, does Italian food have any place?
- I recommend their specials, salads and soups over their signature dosas.
- Naan and roti share space on the same menu with idlis and dosais.
- The dosai are served on long, thin wooden plates reflecting their size and shape.
- Families were still partial to idlis and dosas, and cereal for breakfast was unthinkable.
- Our sizzling starters arrive swiftly; a delicate dosa pancake stuffed with succulent prawns saturated with a hefty chilli kick for my friend, and garlic mushrooms spilling out of pan-fried peppers prepared in a tarka style for me.
- Among the entrées, the dosai is a large crêpe wrapped into a cone shape; lift the crêpe and there is a piece of sea bass done to flaky perfection with a swirl of light chutney.
- To get them to overcome their suspicions we had to re-brand various local foods under familiar labels, presenting the dosai as pizza or pancakes and the buffalo curd as yoghurt.
- And for others, these dosas not only serve a sumptuous dinner but also leave a captivating charm which can titillate their tastebuds evening after evening.
- You can also get dosas, aapams, burgers, sandwiches, and shakes.
- Ragi flour is made into the leavened pancakes called dosa and the thinner, unleavened roti.