Vegetable Fried Rice-How to prepare Vegetable Fried Rice

We usually order Fried rice when we visit hotels but do you know that we can prepare it in no time at home. Moreover the advantage of preparing at home is that we can prepare it to suit our liking, adjust sauces to suit our taste buds and we can also skip ajinomoto which is very harmful for our health. I usually prepare this with brown rice to make it more healthier and it tastes really good with brown rice. How to cook brown rice? .Do try it. Here is a quick recipe for Indo Chinese Vegetable Fried rice-

Vegetable Fried Rice


 Prep Time : 10 mins

Cook Time : 15 mins
Serves: 2
Recipe Category: Main Dish-Rice Dish
Recipe Cuisine: Indo Chinese
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   Ingredients needed

   Basmati rice – 1 cup
   Oil -1 tsp for cooking rice
   Beans – 1/4 cup finely chopped
   Carrot – 1/4 cup finely chopped
   Cabbage – 1 cup shredded
   Capsicum -1/4 cup finely chopped
   Spring onion greens – 2 1/2 tbsp finely chopped

   Olive oil/Any refined oil – 2 1/2 tbsp
   Garlic -1 1/2 tbsp
   Ginger – 1 inch piece

   Seasoning

   Vinegar – 1 tsp
   Red Chilli sauce – 1-2 tsp
   Soya sauce -2-3 tsp
   Salt and Pepper powder to taste (I used white pepper powder)

Preparation

Soak Basmati rice for 15 minutes and cook adding 1 1/2 cups of boiling water and a tsp of oil. Once cooked, fluff it with a fork and spread it on a plate to cool. The cooked grains should be separate.

Finely chop beans, carrot, capsicum and spring onion greens.

Mince garlic and ginger.

Shred cabbage into thin fine strips.

Method

Heat oil in a pan, when the oil is very hot, add garlic and ginger, saute for a few seconds. Then add beans and fry for a few seconds, followed by carrot, cabbage, capsicum and spring onion greens. (Add vegetables in the same order)

All the vegetables should be sauteed on high flame and continuous stirring is necessary as we want the vegetables to be crunchy and not fully cooked. Add cooked rice, soya sauce, vinegar, needed salt and pepper powder. Mix well and serve hot.

Note

The whole procedure should be done on high flames.

Chopping the vegetables finely is very important.

I did not add much soya sauce or red chilli sauce but you can add the sauces according to your taste to make it more Chinese. Adjust seasoning according to your taste.

Adding finely chopped mushrooms along with vegetables makes it even more delicious.

Using olive oil adds more flavor but you can also use any refined oil. Buy Olive oil which is meant for cooking purpose.

Side Dish for Vegetable Fried Rice –

Gobi Manchurian

Chilli Paneer

Vegetable Manchurian 


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