Ros Omelette Chicken Pau at Tados Restaurant in Doha Qatar

Ros Omelette is one of the popular street foods in Goa. Usually sold on gaadas (Local stalls) which serve chicken or mutton gravy served with omelette, onion, lime and Pao (Goan local bread).

Ingredients

For the Chicken Pieces marination:-

•  Xacuti masala Paste (See recipe notes below for recipe link.)
•  500 grams Chicken pieces (see recipe notes below)
•  1 tsp Salt
•  1/2 Lemon juice

For the Green Masala Paste:-

•  1/4 cup Corainder leaves
•  2 Green chilies (roughly chopped)
•  8 Garlic cloves (roughly chopped)

Other Ingredients for the Ros:-

•  3 tbsp Oil
•  1 large Onion (Sliced)
•  Chopped coriander

For the Omlette:-

•  10 Eggs (or as required)
•  2 large Onion (finely chopped)
•  Salt (as required)
•  2 Green chilies (finely chopped)
•  Oil (as needed to make the omlettes)

To Serve:-

•  12-15 Goan Pao (See recipe notes below for homemade recipe)
•  Onion (finely chopped)
•  Lemon Slices (as required)

Instructions

Prepare the Ros:-

1 Prepare the Xacuti masala and keep aside. (See recipe notes below for the recipe link to Xacuti masala paste).

2 Wash the chicken pieces. Apply salt and lime to it. Make a paste of ingredients mentioned under ' For the Green Masala Paste'. Apply this paste to the chicken pieces.

3 Mix well and leave aside for 30 minutes.

4 In a vessel add the oil, saute the onion. Add the marinated chicken pieces. Cook for about 10 minutes.

5 Add water just sufficient enough to cover the chicken pieces, bring it to a boil for about 10-12 minutes.

6 Add the ground masala paste. Cook for another 12-15 minutes.

7 Add the chopped coriander leaves. Ros is ready to be served!

Prepare the Omelette:-

8 Add in the eggs, salt, chilies, onions .

9 Mix well.

10 Prepare omelettes as required.

11 Make all omelettes till all the omelette batter is utilized.

Prepare Pao (if baking at home):-

12 See recipe notes below for the pao recipe link.

13 Freshly baked Pao.

Assemle Ros, Omlette &Pao:-

14 Serve the ros on top of omelette. Serve with onion , lime and Pao.

15 Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

For preparing this Ros to be eaten specially with the omlette and pao,  I prefer to make it with the chicken wings, bone pieces and chicken neck pieces etc... This is usually how the gaadas in Goa do it (local Goan Ros omelette stalls) with very few small chicken pieces. All the chicken bones etc give a very good flavor to the Ros

Konkani theatre set to get a boost in Qatar, thanks to Roman Catholic priest Anand Castelino

The tiatr (folk play), Khell tiatr, One-Act Konkani play, the Khells, form part and parcel of the Goan lifestyle, but all things Goans are losing its essence in the Gulf and Qatar is no exception.

Theatre has been the cheapest and most effective system of art to get across the message to the masses.

But it is losing its ground among the Goans in the internet age. Why, the ground beneath is loose will be debated in another post.

Theatrics and budding Konkani artists may well get a shot in the arm, which they were looking for if Rev Father Anand Castelino plans to stage a skit competition for the Konkani speaking community of Qatar owing allegiance to the Our Lady of Rosary Qatar materialize.

Castelino, who is the spiritual head to the nearly 20,000 Konkani-speaking community plans to hold a five to seven minute skit competition revolving around the life of Saint Francis Xavier, patron saint of Goa and the Indies, whose incorruptible body which is the source of inspiration for many a pilgrimage to Goa.

The feast of Spain-born saint is held every on 3^rd December in Goa and Goans in Qatar will join hands with Mangalorean community in jointly celebrating the feast.

Coming back to Anand’s planed skit competition, the dynamic priest who is a fountain head of music knowledge needs to be complimented and needs our support to carry the plan to its logical conclusion.

The only loose end according to him will be making space at the fully-booked Seraphic hall to hold the skit competition.

Anand hails from Mangalore and the Mangalorean community has been picture of unity in sharp contrast to the Goans, who are a divided lot.

Skits, play and theatre hold centre stage for the Mangalorean community and they are exporting the rich traditions from Mangalore to Qatar.

Eddie Sequeira is one such play writer from the Mangalorean community, writing in the Ekvottt magazine, the Rosary church of Qatar newsletter, he has promised to highlight the life of the single worker in Qatar. Local rules demand that single workers accommodations are far away from family accommodation. That means they away from the city, in an area called Industrial area while the city units are reserved for family accommodation.

Konkani needs a giant push among the Goan community and Anand’s approach to it may well seem to be a small solution on the surafece of it, but a start has been made to the big problem for Goans in Qatar, and it is no looking back.

"Kitle aile, kitle gele, paus azun

Ambea mullant koddkoddttat

Goencho put azun!

Bhangarachem Goem amchem

Kitlem assa pois azun”, to quote Goa’s famous poet Manohar Sardessai.

NB: If the Konkani speaking community parishioners of Our Rosary Church of Qatar are fortunate to have rev father Anand, who know the in and outs of the music- reading and writing music. At the other end is a gloomy picture. A person who does know to read and write music has been successfully holds on to the reigns of the Konkani church choir. More on that in my next post, how the bird from Vasco is manipulating things, even to the extent of writing to bishops and firing poison-laden arrows at Konkani priest based in Qatar—the last one, now based in Kuwait will have a tale to tell.