Showing posts with label Variety rice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Variety rice. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 December 2017

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.
Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes

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

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

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.
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
  • Blend all the ingredients mentioned in To Grind section. Add water, enough to blend them nicely to make a smooth paste.
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
  • 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.
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
  • Then add the blended paste, fry it until the raw smell goes off.
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
  • 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.
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
  • When the vegetables are almost cooked add green part of the spring onion and stir it for a minute.
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
  • Add salt, tomato sauce and pepper. Give a stir and cook for another 2-3 min. 
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
  • Now add the cooked rice and mix the rice well with the cooked vegetables.
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
  • Remove it from hot plate and now the Vegetable Fried Rice is ready to serve.
    Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes
  • 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.

Monday, 4 December 2017

Arisi Parupu Sadam/ Dal Rice

Step by step procedure with photos, to prepare Arisi Parupu Sadam. Arisi parupu sadam is a very popular rice recipe in Coimbatore. Though I brought up around the same district, my mom haven't prepare this dish at home. I got to taste this delicious dal rice at my friend Saranya's home. This was during my school days and I still remember, how tasty her mom would prepare the rice!!! So I phoned her up on a weekend and got the recipe. And I told her,if it comes out well and taste similar to her mom's preparation, I would share the recipe in my blog.
Arisi Parupu Sadam
            Well, this is quite an easy to prepare and comforting one pot meal. Addition to it, my hubby is fond of dal dishes, so I didn't wait to prepare. This was the first time he got to taste Arisi parupu sadam and he liked it very much and my 3 year old little one also loved it. So here I am sharing the recipe with you. I used raw rice, but par-boiled rice or puzungal arisi is the best choice to prepare Arisi Parupu Sadam. Scroll further to see the full recipe.

Preparation time: 25 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 3
Category: Variety rice
Recipe by Vidhya

Ingredients

Rice (preferred par-boiled rice/puzungal arisi) - 1 cup
Thoor dal/Pigeon pea/Thuvaram parupu - 1/2 cup
Sambhar Powder (Ready-made powder also will do for this dish) - 1 table spoon
Tomato - 2 Medium sized finely chopped
Onion - 1 Medium sized chopped lengthwise
Ginger - 1 spoon finely chopped
Garlic - 1 spoon finely chopped
Ghee(Optional) - 1 table spoon
Salt - As per your taste
Coriander leaves - 1 table spoon finely chopped

To temper

Mustard seed/kadugu - 1/2 spoon
Cumin seeds/Jeera - 1 spoon
Dry chilli - 1
Oil - 1 to 1 1/2 table spoon

Method

Now we will see how to prepare Arisi Parupu Sadam/Dal Rice...
  • Cook the rice and dal separately. For cooking rice I used water in the ratio of 1:2.
  • Chop the tomato, onion, ginger and garlic.
  • In a kadai, pour 1 to 1 1/2 spoon of oil. When it is hot add mustard seeds. Allow it splutter. Now add jeera and then add ginger and garlic. Fry until the raw smell of ginger and garlic goes off and it should turn slightly brown.
  • Add chopped onion and stir it until it turns transparent/golden brown.
  • Now add the chopped tomato, give a stir. Add turmeric powder, sambhar powder and salt.
  • Cook until tomatoes get mushy. Now add the cooked dal and mix it well. cook for another 4-5 min in medium heat.
  • Now add a table spoon of ghee. Give a stir.
  • Remove the kadai from hot plate.
  • Now add the cooked rice and mix it well. Garnish it with coriander leaves.
  • And now the Arisi Parupu Sadam is ready to be served with vadam/apalam/potato poriyal.
    Arisi Parupu Sadam
Note:
  • For cooking dal - Soak the dal in water for 20 - 30 min before cooking. Add a pinch of turmeric powder while pressure cooking the dal.
  • I used home made sambhar powder. you can also use ready-made sambhar powder.
  • Add curry leaves while tempering would add more flavour to the rice. 

Saturday, 25 November 2017

Potato Pulao/Potato Rice

Potato pulao is a perfect lunch box recipe. This is also best suitable for a quick meal/simple dinner as it is very easy to prepare in just 30-40 min. Papad/Apalam would be best accompanied with potato rice or it is simply fine with no side dish. Raitha also goes well with this spicy pulao. Potato pulao is a very tasty rice recipe, kids would love them more as it has their favourite vegetable -Potato. Simple step by step procedure associated with pictures to explain each step for Potato Pulao/Potato Rice recipe.

Preparation time: 20 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 2
Category: Variety Rice
Recipe by Vidhya

Ingredients

Basmathi rice - 3/4 cup
Potato - 2 Medium sized chopped
Onion - 1 Medium sized, chopped lengthwise
Garlic - 1 spoon chopped
Ginger - 1 spoon chopped
Green chilli - 1 finely chopped
Oil/Ghee - 1 table spoon
Salt - As per your taste

Spices

Bay leaf - 1
Cinnamon Stick - 1 to 1 1/2 inch
Star Anise - 1
Cardamom- 3 nos
cloves- 3 nos

 Spice powdered/Ready-made Powder

Turmeric powder - 1/4 spoon
Chilli powder - 1/2 spoon
Garam masala powder - 1/2 spoon
Coriander powder - 1/4 spoon

Method

  • Cook the basmathi rice and allow it to cool. 
  • Chop onion, garlic, ginger and green chilli.
  • In a kadai, add a table spoon of ghee/oil (I used ghee), when it is hot add the spices mentioned in Spices section.
  • Fry until the spices are aromatic. Add chopped onion, garlic, ginger and green chilli. 
  • When the onion is golden brown/transparent, add chopped potatoes.
  • Add turmeric powder and mix it well.
  • Close the kadai with lid and cook in medium heat for at least 15-20 min.
  • Now add chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder and salt. mix it well and cook for another 10 min in low heat.
  • When the potato curry looks well blended, add the cooked basmathi rice. Mix well and remove it from hot plate.
  • Potato pulao is ready to eat or for lunch box.

Notes:
  1. If you are doing it for your kids, you can avoid green chilli.
  2. When the curry is completely blended, you can stir fry for few more minutes in low heat to roast the potato, it adds more taste to the pulao.