Fried rice

Serves -3

Fried rice is one of the Chinese dish that I like.With just rice and vegetables it's just amazing food to have. It goes well with any type of manchurians/tomato sauce.

Ingredients:

• Basmati rice -1 cup
• Water -1 &1/2 cup
• Cabbage -1 cup(chopped)
• Carrot -1
• Beans -10 nos
• Capsicum -1 no
• Spring onion -1 bunch
• Garlic -2-3 pods
• Oil/Olive oil -2 tbsp
• Pepper powder -1 tsp (or as needed)
• Soy sauce -2 tsp
• Salt -To taste

Method:

• Soak basmati rice for 30 mins and then cook it with 1&1/2 cups of water.(pressure cook it for 2-3 whistles).
• Finely chop the veggies,chop the white and green part of spring onion and keep them separately.
• Chop capsicum into lengthwise strips.Finely chop garlic pods.
• Now in a pan add oil,followed by garlic and white part of spring onion.
• Now add finely chopped carrot and beans cook them for 2 -3 mins.
• Then add cabbage and capsicum cook them for 3 more mins.(Capsicum and cabbage should retain their crunchiness).
• Now add salt,pepper powder,soy sauce and mix well in high flame.(If possible toss them in high flame as how they do in road side shops).
• Finally add cooked basmati rice and stir well.Finally add green part of spring onion.
• Check for salt and serve with any type of manchurians/tomato sauce.

Notes:

• Cool the cooked basmati rice before mixing so that you will get individual grains.
• Soaking basmati rice before cooking gives you nice individual and soft grains.
• Add pepper powder as per your taste.
• I used tri colour capsicum for a colorful look.You can use any one colour capsicum also.
• Some use aji no moto for extra taste.But it is better to avoid it.