The moment you hear dosa, an image of a crispy round flatbread served with hot piping sambar, flavourful coconut chutney, and tangy tomato chutney comes to mind. Add the filling of potatoes, and you can call it masala dosa. Add paneer, and it becomes paneer dosa. You can also experiment with the base. Instead of using rice and lentil batter, you can make it with rava, poha, or a variety of millet. However, this is as far as the imagination goes.
With the urge to go viral on social media, food enthusiasts have come up with weird combinations. It wasn’t enough that the internet was ruining noodles, idli, pizza, and paratha, people had to ruin dosa as well. Now you can see viral videos of gulab jamun dosa, Nutella dosa, ice cream dosa, and whatnot. What happened to authentic food? In India, where chefs and food enthusiasts have not been able to decide whether to call veg biryani a variant of biryani or pulao, some people want to grab attention by spreading just about anything on dosa.
Why would anyone want to ruin a dish that is super easy to cook? Add the batter to a hot skillet, let it cook, top it with spicy aloo, and serve it. If you cannot cook aloo masala, eat crunchy paper dosa. The recently viral video of gulab jamun dosa has left netizens in splits. Foodpandits, a video creator, took to his Instagram to share a video of a vendor in Chandigarh making gulab jamun dosa.
He asked the vendor why he was making this bizarre dish. He said that he would offer anything that his customers would demand. Countering his claim, the food blogger asked if he would also serve rasgulla dosa, and the vendor agreed that if his customers would come with this demand, he would make it for them.
An Instagram user commented, “As much as I hate these inventions. I think this will taste like a sweet crepe. This should taste good.” Another user wrote, “Customer demand? Who are these customers?” The video has garnered more than 95k views in just four days. However, gulab jamun is not the only weird combination that has surprised netizens. Here are other bizarre dosa variants that will shock you.
Ice Cream and Biscuit Dosa
You must have heard of ice cream topping over a variety of desserts like brownies, milkshakes, and more, but ice cream on top of dosa seems like a deadly combination. Vividh, who runs The Kurta Guy channel on YouTube, reacted to videos of vendors making an ice cream dosa, he called it “diabetes dosa”. In the later part of the video, a vendor added salty biscuits as dosa filling.
A user commented, “Wait! Why does the Monaco dosa actually sound good to me?” Another disappointed netizen wrote, “What’s wrong with people? Why can’t they just make normal aloo masala?” (Surely, most people might be thinking the same).
Nutella Dosa
Nutella is a chocolate spread often used to bake cookies and spread on toast. It is also used as a healthier alternative to chocolate to make guilt-free desserts (though it contains sugar and palm oil). In fact, the label on it suggests you can try it with bread, roti, and dosa.
A foodie commented, “I didn’t have a problem with Nutella till now, but now I have.” Another person said that it was a yucky combination. A user wrote, “Wait! Is eating jam with dosa uncommon? I thought it was normal, and I have been eating it since childhood.”
Avatar Dosa
It’s not just that vendors across India are experimenting with colourful idlis, they are on to dosa now. Vividh shared a video of a vendor selling blue dosa, the exact colour of the tribe of Na’vi in Hollywood’s Avatar. After this, the makers of the film will definitely feature this as one of the favourite dishes of people on Pandora.
A user said that the title of the movie should be changed from ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ to ‘Avatar: The Way of Dosa’. One Instagram user pointed out that people will vomit blue after eating this dosa.