Veg fried rice
Veg fried rice or Indo-Chinese fried rice recipe is the delicious, flavourful and aromatic rice - easy and quick to make fried rice recipe. It includes lots of vegetables sauteed on the high flame which gives a nice crunchiness to the dish. Sauces blend very well with the sauteed veggies and give a nice and unique texture, flavour and aroma to the fried rice.
Yield: 4
Calories: 390kcal
Materials
For Pressure cooking rice:
- 2 cups Basmati rice use regular Sona masuri rice if basmati is not available
- 2.5 cups Water
- 1 tsp Cooking oil
- Pinch of salt
Other Ingredients for making Veg fried rice:
- ½ cup Carrots finely chopped
- ½ cup French beans finely chopped
- ½ cup Capsicum finely chopped
- 1 cup Cabbage thinly sliced or shredded in food processor
- 1 bunch Spring onions greens & stock separated
- 1-inch Ginger finely chopped
- 5 to 6 Garlic cloves finely chopped
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp Soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Red chilli sauce
- 1 tbsp Vinegar
- Salt per taste
- 1 tsp Crushed black pepper
- 1 tsp Sugar Optional or you use 1 tbsp tomato ketchup
Instructions
For cooking rice:
- Take 2 cups of long grain basmati rice in a large bowl and rinse it under the running water.
- Soak the rinsed rice for about 4 to 5mins in hot or warm water.
- Now, drain the water and add the rice in a pressure cooker along with 2.5 cups of water.
- Then, add a tsp of salt or as per your taste.
- Also, add a tsp of cooking oil in the pressure cooker and cook the rice on medium-low flame for 1 whistle.
For making Veg fried rice:
- In a large thick bottom pan or kadhai or wok, heat 2 tbsp of oil.
- When the oil is hot enough, add in chopped white bulbs of spring onions and saute on high flame for few seconds.
- Keep the flame high, and add in chopped ginger-garlic into the wok and stir fry for few seconds.
- Now, add all the veggies, here I am adding carrots, french beans, capsicum and cabbage.
- Stir fry all the veggies on high flame for about 2 to 3 minutes without overcooking the veggies.
- Then, add green stock of spring onions and again saute for few seconds.
- Then with the help of a spatula, shift the veggies to the side and make space in the middle of the wok.
- Then, add soy sauce, red chilli sauce and vinegar and saute on high flame for few seconds.
- Then add salt as per taste, crushed black pepper and sugar into the wok and again stir for few seconds till the veggies retain some crunchiness.
- Now, lower the flame and add al dente cooked rice into the kadhai and mix gently without breaking the rice grains.
- Finally, garnish it with some chopped spring onion greens and veg fried rice is ready to be served.
- Serve hot and spicy veg fried rice with any Chinese gravy like veg Manchurian gravy or paneer chilli gravy.