Vegetable Fried Rice

Step by step procedure to prepare Vegetable Fried Rice with photos explaining each step clearly. There are so many ways to prepare fried rice like Chinese style, Schezwan fried rice and etc.. In most of the recipes we are compelled to use soy sauce, vinegar, schezwan sauce and so on. Like my earlier posts, in Vegetable Fried Rice also I have not used vinegar or soy sauce, but just a table spoon of tomato sauce alone. This particular fried rice will have a unique taste and nice aroma of spring onion combined with flavourful mint leaves and coriander leaves. The procedure is very simple with very less ingredients but with loads of vegetables. This fried rice is my husband's favourite and he likes to have it with chips and sauce. I have prepared the recipe many times and it never failed me from getting appreciations. The fried rice goes well as a comforting weekend lunch and even for a delicious dinner. Now again, we are preparing our fried rice at home, which makes it more healthy and more tasty. As I always say "Home made is always Best". So try this veg fried rice recipe and kindly post your comments. Your comments and feedback are very important for me to keep going with my food blog and with my passion.

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Preparation time: 30 min
Cooking time: 40 min
Serves: 2
Category: Variety rice
Recipe by Vidhya

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Ingredients

Basmathi rice - 1 cup

Spring onion - 3 springs finely chopped(Keep the white and green part separately)

Carrot - 1 finely chopped

Beans - 8-10 finely chopped

Capsicum - 1/2 of a capsicum, finely chopped

Cabbage - 1/4 portion of a big cabbage, finely chopped

Corn - a handful

Green Peas - a handful

Tomato sauce - 1 table spoon

Pepper - 1 table spoon

Butter - a table spoon

Salt - As per your taste

To Grind

Spring onion - 1 spring

Coriander leaves -  a handful

Mint leaves - a handful

Green chilli - 3

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Method

• Cook the basmathi rice in your regular procedure and let it cool down.
• Wash all the vegetables thoroughly and chop them finely. As I have mentioned earlier, keep the white and green part of spring onion separately.
  
  
• Blend all the ingredients mentioned in To Grind section. Add water, enough to blend them nicely to make a smooth paste.
  
  
• Take a kadai or thick bottomed vessel, add a table spoon of butter. when butter is melted add white part of spring onion and fry it for a min.
  
• Then add the blended paste, fry it until the raw smell goes off.
  
• Now add the chopped vegetables. Mix it well and close the kadai with a lid and cook it for 15-20 min. Stir the vegetables often. You can sprinkle water if it does looks like burning from bottom of the kadai. Do not add lot of water just sprinkle it.
  
• When the vegetables are almost cooked add green part of the spring onion and stir it for a minute.
  
• Add salt, tomato sauce and pepper. Give a stir and cook for another 2-3 min. 
  
  
• Now add the cooked rice and mix the rice well with the cooked vegetables.
  
  
• Remove it from hot plate and now the Vegetable Fried Rice is ready to serve.
  
• Eat Vegetable Fried Rice hot and enjoy your meal. 

Notes:

• Use any vegetable of your choice.
• You can use fresh or frozen peas and corn. I used fresh.
• You can also replace butter with a table spoon of ghee or oil. But butter is my choice. You can also try using olive oil.
• I have not added garlic in my recipe. If you wish to add, mince 1 pod garlic and add it to the melted butter.