Chinese Fried Rice

Ingredients

Basmati Rice - 1 1/2 cup
Salt - To Taste
Pepper powder - 2 sp
Oil - 3 sp
Green chillies - 5 (very finely chopped)
Ginger - 2 inch piece (very finely chopped)
Garlic pods - 5 (very finely chopped)
Chopped onion - 1/2 handful
Carrot - 2 (cut lengthwise into small bits)
Beans - 10 (cut diagonally into small bits)
Spring onion - 4 (optional)
Green peas - 1 Handful
Sweet corn - 5 sp (optional)
Grated cabbage - 3 sp (optional)
Soya sauce - 2 sp
Salt - 1/2 sp

Method

1. Cook the basmati rice with salt to the level that the grains separate from eachother. Take care that the rice should not be mushy.
2. Cool the basmati rice completely before preparing the fried rice. This is done so that the rice grains will not break during the preparation.
3. Cut the vegetables of your choice in the desired shape and keep aside.
4. In a large vessel, add oil. When the oil becomes hot, add the chopped green chillies, ginger and garlic. Fry for 3 min in a medium heat.
5. Now add the chopped onions and fry for 2 min.
6. Add the cut vegetables, soya sauce & 1/2 sp salt and pepper powder & fry them for another 5 min or so, till the veges are partially cooked.
7. Now add in the rice from the bowl, little by little and gently mix them together (taking care not to break the rice or turn them mushy).
8. Let this cook for another 3 min, gently mixing occassionly.
9. Serve with tomato sauce or fries of your choice.



Carrots cut lengthwise & beans cut diagonally



Finely chopped ginger, garlic & green chillies

 

Fried rice with carrot, beans & peas

 

Fried rice with carrots, peas, sweet corn, spring onions

 Variation

Egg fried Rice

In a separate pan, add oil. When hot, break in 2 eggs. Add little salt and pepper. Fry in a medium heat till the eggs are scrambled and well cooked. Add this along with the veges while preparing fried rice.(other procedures remain the same)