Masala Dosa

So this post I am sharing with you our lunch, which we had at a South Indian place.

Here is Rajiv (our host) waiting outside the restaurant. This crazy looking meal is called Masala Dosa. The outer shell is made of dal (Indian staple), rice and salt. Inside was potatoes and other spiced veggies. To be dipped in two chutneys, one of which is correander (eiw, eiw, eiw)!! Correander is a spice useful in digestion, and therefore, used quite heavily in India. I haaaaaaate correander/cilantro. They even had correander/garlic flavored crutons on the plane here, I forgot to mention that (Druschker and Sean... yea totally thought of you guys.)

The white circular dish is a coconut milk - to offset the spicy hot red chutney.

Melissa and I looking all sweaty and gross.

And here are fennel seeds with sugar cubes - that are served at every restaurant in India after the meal, also to aid in digestion. (Tastes like black licorice, incase you were wondering.)Here is something that was new to me. Rajiv explained it is a beetle leaf (which he said is expensive and traded over the Pakistani border). With various fresh juices and fennel seeds and a "beetle nut" in the middle. It is served after a meal - or anytime someone wants to "freshen their breath". I soooo wanted to try it, only 7 rupees.

Melissa was game to try with me. (P.S. Currently 46.6 rupees = 1$ US). It wasn't bad, only neither of us were tough enough to actually "eat" it. We kinda sucked on them, chewed them, then spit them out. Wasn't bad except for the grassy taste.

More more more to come.

Love, Janelle