Good Food Today: Vegetable Fried Rice

Yesterday was my son's Vidyarambham and one of the milestone days in his life. For Vidyarambham we do pooja of Goddess Saraswathy so as to initiate the learning to children. Time sure is flying and I feel my son is growing so fast ;). Soon he might start going to school and I was imagining his studies, homework and exams. It will be as if I am back to school helping with his homework and other activities...don't know how it would be with this naughty little guy :)

Today's recipe is a simple Vegetable fried rice. This is a great and easy recipe to make use of the leftover rice. If you have the leftover rice, you can make this rice so quick....just add veggies and sauces. I have used carrots and beans, feel free to use any other veggies such as corn, cabbage, peas etc. I served it with some Gobi manchurian, but the gobi was baked rather than deep fried. Check out the recipe here.

What you need?

1 cup Basmati Rice

1/2 cup Onion chopped

1 cup Vegetables chopped (Carrots, Beans)

1/2" pc Ginger finely chopped

2-3 Garlic pods chopped

3/4 tbsp Soya sauce

1 tbsp Tomato sauce

few Spring onions chopped for garnishing

Pepper

Salt

Oil

How to prepare?

If you are not using leftover rice, then cook rice as follows...Wash the rice and soak in some water for about 30 minutes. Put the rice in pressure cooker with few drops of oil and a little salt. Add 1.5 cup water to the cooker and cook for 2 whistles. When the pressure is released, transfer the rice to a plate and spread it, so that rice won't be sticky and let it cool completely.

Heat oil in a pan. Add ginger and garlic and saute until raw smell goes. Now add onions and stir fry for a couple of minutes. Add the vegetables and stir fry for few minutes. The vegetables should not be overcooked and they should retain the crunch.

Now add soya sauce and tomato sauce, mix well. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper, but be careful as a little salt is added while cooking rice and soya sauce also contains salt. Finally add the rice and combine everything well. garnish with spring onions and serve hot.