Fried rice (with variation)

ll Fried rice, with variations

Serves: 03

Preparation Time: 30 Minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Egg fried rice

Ingredient:

• Rice (preferably basmathi) - 2 cups
• Refined oil - 5 tablespoon
• Vinegar - 2 teaspoon
• Ginger - 20 gram
• Garlic - 20 gram
• Onion - 1 medium sized
• Chili sauce - 1 tablespoon
• Green peas - 50 gram
• Carrot - 50 gram
• Capsicum - 50 gram
• Baby corn - 50 gram
• Green beans - 50 gram
• Soy sauce - few drops
• Salt - for taste
• White pepper powder - for taste
• Spring onion - 3,4 springs

Preparation:

• Wash and soak rice
• Finely chop ginger, garlic, onion, carrot, capsicum, green beans and baby corn

Cooking

• Cook rice, once done add 2 table spoon of refined oil, few drops of vinegar and mix
• Spread in a flat platter allowing it to cool
• Place a thick bottom pan (on a high flame) add oil
• Add one by one: ginger – garlic – onion and fry well
• Add one by one carrot – beans – green peas – capsicum and fry well
• Add salt and white pepper
• Add chilli sauce, soy sauce and vinegar
• Immediately add rice and toss (or mix) well, still keeping in high flame but not allowing it to stick to the bottom
• Sprinkle spring onion & toss just before removing from flame.

Note: This recipe stands basic and variation can be made using adding or replacing ingredients to vegetables used

Variations:

l Sprouts:

- Any Sprouts like brussel sprouts, moong sprouts, etc along with the vegetables

l Mushroom:

- Slice button mushrooms thinly
- Saute it after adding ginger and garlic (& follow regular method as given above)
- Include egg to mushroom fried rice for better taste, if you are not a vegan

l Egg fried rice:

- Can include all mentioned vegetable
- Scramble eggs separately with salt and pepper & mix with fried rice at the last stage

l Chicken fried rice:

- Can include all mentioned vegetable
- Cut boneless part of chicken to fine cubes
- Saute it after adding ginger and garlic (& follow regular method as given above)

l Seafood:

- Exclude all vegetables mentioned apart from onion
- Shell prawns & clean and wash fish, cut them to small piece
- Use squids if available
- Either directly include in the recipe and sauté just before adding rice or; Marinate seafoods with salt, pepper and vinegar; deep fry and add at the end