Mori dal chawal and Chicken Sausages Patio
You can make the patio with either firm fish, prawns, boiled eggs or for vegetarians plain or with paneer, or potato wedges
Ingredients
- Marination of chicken cheese onion sausages overnight and put it on fridge shelf in an airtight container for 24 hours.
- On the day of cooking remove the marinated sausages from the fridge at 8am to defrost them and bring them to room temperature so you can lightly saute by 10am.
- 1 pack zorabian chicken cheese onion sausages or 30-40 medium Prawns or firm flesh fish or chicken or mutton or boiled egg (for Non Vegetarians)
- Paneer or potato wedges (for Vegetarians)
- 1/2 tablespoon MTR Sambhar powder (you can use any parsi sambar masala)
- Half of 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/2 teaspoon powder Garam Masala
- 1/2 teaspoon Ginger garlic paste
- Dal ingredients
- Half of 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 600 gms Toor Dal
- Water to fully submerge the dal
- 1 tablespoon Ghee
- Patio ingredients and method
- 3 medium onions chopped
- 1 green chilly deseeded and chopped
- Small bunch coriander chopped
- 3 medium tomatoes grated
- Oil for frying
- White steam long grain basmati rice Ingredients
- 300 gms long grain basmati rice
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 tablespoon Salt as per requirement
- Water should fully submerge the rice or as per requirement
Method
Dal Method
Add all the ingredients to the rice cooker.
Shut the cooker and put the whistle and put the gas on highest flame setting.
After 15 minutes when steam comes out shut the gas.
After dal is cooked strain it so you get only the dal and other particles are out.
After that add ghee and mix well. The hot dal will melt the ghee automatically.
Patio Method
Add oil to the non stick pan and fry onions on medium flame setting till brown.
Add grated tomatoes and mix well and sauté.
Add marinated non veg or veg protein mix well and sauté till they are cooked.
Taste spices and salt if required add more.
Rice Method
Put rice in rice cooker with water and salt. Water should be above the rice submerging the rice.
If cooking rice in non stick pan then water should be double the quantity of rice.
If in a rice cooker once steam comes out of the cooker cook on lowest flame setting till rice is done or for 5 minutes more.
If in a non stick pan once the water starts to boil put the flame on lowest flame setting shut the lid and cook till the rice is done or till water dries off.
Serve dal hot with plain white steam rice and prawn patio.
Alternately if you want to store bring all food to room temperature shut them in airtight containers and put it in the fridge shelf for future use. When you want to eat remove it from the fridge 2 hours before consuming get it to room temperature reheat it and eat.