Nov 3, 2007

Recipe - Vegetable Fried Rice


I made vegetable fried rice today and it came out very well :)


Cooking time: 30 - 45 mins
Serving: 4 persons

Ingredients:
2 cups Basmati rice
1 medium size potato peeled and cut into long thin slices (like the french fries)
1 big onion (or two small onions) chopped
75 gms Beans
1 medium size Capsicum
1 medium size Carrot
100gms Cauliflower
2-3 green chillies (you may add more according to your taste)
1/2 cup fresh or frozen peas
Required amount of coriander leaves
1/2 tsp jeera
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/4 tsp garam masala
1 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
salt to taste
2-3 tbsps oil

Method
1. Cook Basmati rice (Should be like puffed rice - separated from each other) and keep aside
2. In a pan, add oil. After the oil heats up a little add jeera, mustard seeds and wait for them to pop
3. After few minutes add grated onion. Wait until onion turns golden brown
4. Add all the vegetables. Add some oil, salt, tumeric powder, chilli powder, garam masala powder,coriander powder, and half a cup of water and close the pan with the lid. Leave it for 5 minutes in low flame so that the vegetables get cooked
5. Add the cooked rice to this mixture. Stir well so that the rice get mixed with the cooked vegetables
6. Garnish with coriander leaves
7. Serve it hot with onion raitha or cucumber raitha

Happy cooking! Do let me know how it comes out when you try..

2 comments:

Bee said...

I liked
but a don´t if i make will be so good
hehehehe
kiss

Lakshmi said...

Thanks Bee!