Vegetable fried rice

Ingredients: Basmati rice – 2 cups

Chopped carrot – 1 cup

Chopped beans – 1 cup

Chopped spring onion – 1/2 cup

Soya sauce – 4 tbsp

Pepper powder – 2 tsp

MSG – 1/2 tsp(Optional)

Salt – As rqrd

Oil – 1 tbsp

Garlic – 1 tsp (chopped)

Method: Wash and cook basmati rice till it is 80% done. Drain the rice and keep it aside.

Steam chopped carrot and beans.

Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large Chinese kadai and add chopped garlic.

When garlic becomes golden brown, add cooked carrot and beans and saute for a while.

Add cooked rice along with soya sauce, pepper powder, salt and MSG.

Mix it well and keep it in a low flame for 10 minutes.

Add chopped spring onion and mix it again and remove from fire.

If you want to make this a non veg fried rice, you can add scrambled egg(or you can add beaten egg to the cooked vegetables and scramble it) or cooked mince chicken / prawns (cook chicken/prawns by adding little salt, pepper powder and garam masala) or any other non veg according to your taste and creativity.

This post was submitted by Renjini Selvan.