Kerala college dishes out 624 types of dosa

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New Delhi: If the sound gets you pining, and the sight gets you drooling, then it might not be a bad idea to check this out — the mother of all dosa festivals.

Straight from the dosa's own country, this celebration of one of South India's favourite dishes promises not one, not ten, but a jaw-dropping 624 varieties of dosas! Organisers say they're trying to take on western fast foods.

Says Principal Christ Catering College, Shaji Joseph, "We have been conducting a research programme for the last two years regarding the dosa. We wanted to compete with the pizzas and burgers, the international foods coming to India . We got the idea of rice-based dosas filled with different types of masalas — same as what pizza-makers are doing."

From the everyday to the exotic, they were all there, priced at anything from Rs 6 for a plain dosa to Rs 275 a 70 mm chicken masala dosa. Even a "no-tasting" caveat couldn't keep the crowds away.

Says a visitor at the festival, Susan, "We have only seen four or five types of dosas before. It is for the first time that I have seen 624 varieties. It is fantastic."

And the filling on the dosa, organisers say, is from their new catering research institute, that will come up with over 1 lakh new recipes every year.