dosa
nounUK /ˈdəʊsə/ · US /ˈdoʊsə/
Etymology From Kannada ದೋಸೆ (dōse).
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A type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.
- Eric dipped a piece of the dosa in the coconut chutney.
- The restaurant's dosas were truly atrocious, so I stopped going there.
4 more examples
- In those days she had admired his pluralistic openness of mind, and struggled, in her kitchen, towards a parallel eclecticism, learning to cook the dosas and uttapams of South India as well as the soft meatballs of Kashmir.1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255:
- I carried the Mongoose's bags to the right carriage of the train, then went to a stall and bought a dosa, wrapped in paper, for him.2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 141:
- These condiments are provided as something for you to dip your dosa into. The dosa wrap itself has a slight tang to it, as it is a fermented bread made from rice and lentils, and is light and delicious.2012, Meg Cotner, Food Lovers' Guide to Queens, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 173:
- The dosas all came with coconut chutney and sambar, a lentil broth — good dipping condiments.2013 June 14, Mary Jo Murphy, “Dosas, Big and Bigger”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: