Discover The Indian Dosa -A Nutritious Breakfast Idea

By : Mary Anne Durkee


The Dosa, the South Indian delicacy is an integral part of the Indian cuisine. The Dosa is a delicious pancake made with rice and pulses and in some cases has a tasty stuffing too.



With the several variations that are possible, the dosa is a power packed healthy breakfast or snack idea for all ages. Starting the day right, meaning, with the right nutrition is very important, the dosa lets you do just this. A great way to taste and health, the delicious dosa.

The dosa is light on the stomach and is great for a good nutritious breakfast, a snack or even dinner. It is a rich source of proteins and carbohydrates. The plain dosa is made with rice and white lentil or the urad dal as it is known in the Indian cuisine. The rice and lentils are soaked for approximately 12 hours and then washed thoroughly. The ingredients are then made into a fine paste using water in the grinder.

Some of the traditional South Indian homes where dosa is part of the everyday menu use grinders specifically meant for the purpose. They then grind the batter in a large quantity to meet the entire week's requirements. Today there are even modern manageable versions of the huge grinders available. These table top grinders are both lighter and more easily manageable as compared to their heavyweight counterparts.

Coming back to preparing the dosa batter, the ingredients are made into a fine paste and adding salt left to ferment. Once fermented you can enjoy delicious dosa that are crisp, yummy and also healthy. You could also make dosas without fermenting the batter, they turn out delicious too.

There are several variations possible with the dosa. With a tasty potato stuffing you can turn the plain dosa into a masala dosa. Then there are the rava dosa, the healthy raagi dosa, adai ( which combines a variety of lentils with rice, a highly nutritious dosa full of proteins) and you can have a hundred more with a little creativity and experimenting with the stuffing.

The dosa is served with a variety of accompaniments like the chutney and sambar. Today most supermarkets and food stores stock readymade dosa and idli batter and so for a working couple or with anyone with very little time on hand too, making a dosa is possible with ease.

The dosa is a nutritious breakfast. You need to start your day right. A good breakfast that is both filling and nutritious can do you a lot of good. Seeing you through the day with ease. A good breakfast ensures that you are active and alert both mentally and physically.
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Do you know that there are two ways to lose weight, diet and exercise? As a matter of fact, you need to combine those two methods in order to lose weight successfully. Unfortunately, some people make certain silly weight loss mistakes and eventually fail to reach their weight loss goals.

Don’t make these simple mistakes that will ruin your diet
Cheating on your diet

It is very tempting to ‘cheat’ on your diet and eat your favorite junk foods straight from the refrigerator. Now, cheating is good as long as you do it moderately. However, if you eat more unhealthy than healthy foods, then you cannot expect to lose weight, right?

Many times, when people start an exercise regimen in addition to dieting, they think that eating a burger or two cups of ice cream or two packets of potato chips won’t make any difference in their weight, since they could easily burn off the extra calories with the help of workouts. Now that might be true for your thinner counterparts, but since you already have several pounds to lose, such unhealthy eating habits will triple your body weight, and no amount of exercises would be able to save you.

If you want to burn the extra calories which you consume in the form of junk foods, you should be working out the entire day, and probably even then, you won’t be able to burn off half the amount of calories you consumed.

Exercises can help only when you eat low-calorie, healthy foods; one cannot exist without the other. So, if you are serious about weight loss, you should stick to your diet and ‘cheat’ only once in a while.
Skipping your breakfast

Breakfast is there to ‘break your fast’. When you wake up in the morning, I am sure you are very hungry. If you skip breakfast, you will feel more and more hungry as the day passes. Eventually your hunger would reach to such an extent that it would become unbearable for you. At this moment you would gorge on the fast foods that you could get from your local restaurant.

And before you realize it, you would’ve eaten so much of these ‘bad foods’ that your weight would increase manifold.
Eating low-fat foods

Eating one fatty food is same as gorging on hundreds of low-fat foods; in either case, you are consuming the same amount of calories. Just because you are eating low-fat foods doesn’t mean that you have the liberty to overeat and throw all dietary cautions to the wind.