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| - Dosa and spicy chai is the world's best combination on a cold breezy day. Madras Masala is as good as dosa gets (at least before I visit a dosa street vendor in South India). If Yogi Bear lives in Christie Pits, instead of "pic-a-nic baskets", he would be at Madras Masala, devouring gigantic dosas!
My friends and I shared the cheese mysore masala dosa, paper masala dose, and rava dosa at Madras Masala! Each dosa came with coconut chutney, tomato coconut chutney and sambar. The cooling sensation of coconut chutney complimented the warming spices perfectly.
The SPL rava dosa ($10.99) is embedded with crispy caramelized onions in the batter of semolina and rice flour. The sweetness from onion balanced the savoriness of the potato masala. The crunchy exterior juxtapose the soft interior.
The cheese mysore masala dosa ($10.99) resembles grilled cheese, expect this Indian grilled cheese is stuffed with masala potatoes and onions. If potatoes and grilled cheese had a love child in India, it would be cheese mysore masala dosa!
The paper masala dosa ($11.99) stuffed with potato masala, is the size of my torso! That dish alone is enough to feed a small army! Typically, the aromatic potato is mixed with 10 to 12 different herbs and spices!
The complex flavors oscillate between sweet and savory; spicy and fresh, pungent and fragrant. Dosa is an interplay of earth's bounty. Dosa is the synthesis of divinity!
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