A Gourmet Affair in Hurry!!

Recently a friend of mine, who has exactly nothing to do with kitchen, (but loves awesome results out of it) thought to give Mrs. K a try for her loved one. It was a celebration time and so a simple Maggi wouldn’t have been enough. So she came to me.. Asking what do I cook which is easy and fast? And that got me thinking. Easy and fast is the motto of life today. Gone are the days of laborious work in kitchen all day to produce a decent evening meal. Today everyone is busy and so I got busy thinking about the easiest and the fastest meals which can actually make you slurp and burp around. Call it whatever you want, but I like to call it Easy Sausage Risotto!!
Ingredients:
• Sausages: 3 – 5, depending on their size. I had Vienna sausages in my fridge. They are awesome but very difficult to get. Hence you may use any version, as you may please.
• Cooked rice: 3 cups. You can easily use the left over rice from the previous day.. ;)
• Tomato sauce: 3 tbsp
• Tobasco sauce: 3 drips
• Garlic paste: 1 tsp
• Ginger paste: 1 tsp
• One onion finely chopped or minced.
• Cilantro for garnishing.
• Oil, salt, sugar and pepper to taste.
• And last but not the least, some good quality wine.. it adds an awesome flavour
Method:
Pretty simple!! Start with the sausages. Heat some water in a pan and put down the sausages. Let it boil for a while.

In the meanwhile, make the basic tomato sauce. In a heated pan, take some oil, enough to fry the onions well. I personally prefer the chopped version as they don’t splutter much and doesn’t make the dish very-very spicy. Once the onions are done put in the ginger-garlic paste and fry for 2-3 mins till the mix has cooked down and becomes brown in colour.

Check on the sausage, once it boils, it should swell up. Drain away the water once done but don’t throw the stock away. Put half of that water with both the sauces inside the pan with fried onion mix. Get the sauce to a desired consistency. If it thickens, add a little water. Cook till everything is mixed well and then season the sauce with salt, sugar and pepper according to taste.
Once you are happy with your sauce, put in the sausages, cut in small round shapes (as in the picture) and cook till the sausage absorbs the sauce a little bit. Add the wine in the last bit, and take it off heat. I like to smell the wine in my food. But if you want to tone down the flavour then cook a wee bit longer, till you are satisfied.

Now for the risotto part! Remember this is just a name and nothing else.. The rice and the sauce is cooked separately but served together..
Take the half of sausage stock and put it in the cooked rice and mash the grains a bit. Let it sit on the heat till the rice cooks down and flavoured. Remove from heat.
Let your imagination go wild and serve it the way you want. It should take you exactly 15 minutes to get this awesome meal together. And with a glass of wine.. It is just too awesome to be true.. Cheers!!