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Nash Patel & Leda Scheintaub, “Dosa Kitchen: Recipes for India’s Favorite Street Food”, 2018.

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Jeffrey Alford’ & Naomi Duguid, “Seductions of Rice: A Cookbook”, 1998 was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Jeffrey Alford’ & Naomi Duguid, “Flatbreads and Flavors”, 2008 was also the topic of an earlier blog post.



Here I present: Nash Patel & Leda Scheintaub, “Dosa Kitchen: Recipes for India’s Favorite Street Food”, 2018.  All nations have a national dish.  The national dish of Italy is “pizza”, the national dish of Japan is “ramen”, the national dish of the United States is “apple pie”; and, the national dish of India is “dosa”

This “dosa” cookbook of ten (10) chapters contains fifty (50) recipes; and, the “table of contents” is shown BELOW.

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Introduction
  2. Setting Up Your Dosa Kitchen
  3. How to Use This Book
  4. Classic Dosa
  5. VEGAN DOSAS
  6. MEAT, POULTRY & SEAFOOD DOSAS
  7. EGG & DAIRY DOSAS
  8. SWEET DOSAS
  9. DRINKS
  10. CHUTNEYS

Here I presented: Nash Patel & Leda Scheintaub, “Dosa Kitchen: Recipes for India’s Favorite Street Food”, 2018.  The national dish of India is “dosa”.


 
SUMMARY. 

The thin pancake known as dosa is one of the most famous Indian dishes. It is made with soaked rice and black gram beans, which are ground into a paste and mixed to create a thick batter, usually left to ferment overnight. The mixture is enriched with a handful of fenugreek seeds, which give dosa its distinctive golden brown color and a delicious, crispy texture.


It is then baked on a hot oiled griddle, pertaining a delicate, thin texture and round shape. Indian dosa is a staple dish in the entire country, but some believe that dosa had originated in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is an ancient dish, whose origins are traced back to the 1st century AD, when it was first mentioned in Tamil literature.



Dosa is a pancake made with rice batter, at its absolute simplest batter recipe. 

The ingredients below are seven (7) based on “rice” and “rice flour”, without urad dal (slit black lentil).

                      INGREDIENTS

  • cooked white rice 1 cup.
  • rice flour 1 cup.
  • whole-wheat flour ½ cup.
  • salt as needed.
  • baking soda ½ teaspoon.
  • yogurt ¼ cup.
  • water 2 ¼ cup.

A great beginner recipe which makes golden crispy dosa at the this website.  
Dosa and Rice are rice double-shot staple Indian foods; and, this allows pulse to be main dish. Pulse of various types: bean, lentil, dal, chickpea, and dry-pea are all used in India’s cookery.

 

 

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