Showing posts with label easy to prepare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label easy to prepare. 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.
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  • 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.

Thursday, 7 December 2017

Vegetable Clear Soup


Step by step procedure with photos to prepare Vegetable Clear Soup. This soup is basically prepared with loads of vegetables, pepper and salt. I learnt to prepare this soup from my mom, she prepares it so yummy, me and my sister would have a fight over to finish it. I used to give this vegetable(with selected vegetables) soup with a pinch of pepper and enough of salt, to my daughter when she was just 2 years old and just started to have spicy food. Often I cook this soup especially during winter days. It makes a healthy and soothing evening time snack. But soup is not only for winter weather but also gives great relief from cough and cold, make sure you add more pepper to the soup and have it hot. Vegetable soup can also be served as a starter or an appetiser. Try this soup at your home because homemade is always best☺. Click here Creamy Spring Onion Soup to see the procedure for another delightful soup.
Vegetable Clear Soup

Preparation time: 15 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 2
Category: Soup
Recipe by Vidhya

Ingredients

Vegetables to steam/pressure cook

Carrot - 1 finely chopped
Beans - 12 finely chopped
Baby corn - 5 chopped
Cauliflower - 5 floret
Broccoli - 4 -5 floret
Green peas - a handful (Use fresh peas or frozen peas)

Vegetables to be stir fried

Onion - 1 finely chopped
Spring onion - 2 springs (White and green part chopped separately)
Garlic - 1 table spoon finely chopped
Butter - 1 table spoon
Salt and Pepper - as per your taste

Method

The method to prepare Vegetable Clear Soup is very simple. But the real thing is cleaning and chopping the whole lot of vegetables. But you will realise the time is worth spending, when you sip a spoonful of home made soup.
  • Rinse all the vegetable thoroughly in water. Chop them finely as shown. Keep the Vegetables to steam/pressure cook and Vegetables to be stir fried separately.
      

  • Take a vessel enough to cook the vegetables. Add 1 1/2 cup of water and put the vegges mentioned in Vegetables to steam/pressure cook section.
  • Pressure cook for 20 min/5-6 whistles. Allow the pressure to settle down by itself. If you are boiling the vegetables, add same amount of water and cook until the vegetables are fully cooked and soft.
  • Now take a pan/kadai, add a table spoon of butter. When it is melted add minced garlic, onions and white part of spring onion.
  • When the onion turns transparent, add green part of spring onion. Stir it for a minute.
  • Now pour the boiled vegetables along with water used for cooking vegetables and add another 1/2 cup of water.
  • Add salt and pepper. Bring the heat to low and cook until it is boiling/cook for another 5-7 min.
  • Now the hot Vegetable Clear Soup is ready.

Veg Clear Soup
Vegetable Clear Soup
Vidhya's Veg Indian Recipes

Sunday, 26 November 2017

Chilli Cheese Sandwich

Check out for step by step procedure to prepare Chilli Cheese Sandwich. Cheese dishes are my favourite and one among is Chilli Cheese Sandwich. I used to have this delicious sandwiches at my office cafeteria, every bite of it includes tasty capsicum, hot green chilli and green chutney blended in chewy cheese. This serves as good filling evening snacks or for a simple dinner. When you are doing it for kids you can avoid green chillies. If you are a fan of capsicum and cheese, start preparing the sandwich right away. This is a good Picnic Snack as well.

Chilli Cheese Sandwich

Preparation time: 20 min
Cooking time: 3-5 min each sandwich
Serves: 4 sandwiches
Category: Sandwich/snacks
Recipe by Vidhya

Ingredients

For preparing Green Chutney

Coriander leaves - a handful
Mint leaves - a handful
Green chilli - 1
Ginger - 1 to 1 1/2 inch
Garlic - 1
Tamarind - a small piece
Chat masala - 1/2 spoon
Salt - as per your taste

For making sandwiches

Bread - 8 slices
I used white bread. You can use bread of your choice.
Capsicum - 1 Medium sized, very finely chopped
Green Chilli - 1 very finely chopped (Optional)
Cheese - Cheddar cheese, grated 1 cup
Butter - 3 spoon
Ghee - 3 spoon 

Method

Green chutney

  • Blend all the ingredients mentioned in "For preparing Green Chutney" section in a blender and add a little water to make a smooth paste.
  • Green Chutney is ready.

Chilli Cheese Sandwiches

  • Take a bowl, mix the finely chopped capsicum, green chilli (Optional) and cheese. I used cheddar cheese, so I haven't added any salt.
  • Then take two slices of bread. On one side of a bread slice apply butter and then apply green chutney over it.
  • Now take 1 to 1 1/2 table spoon of capsicum and cheese mix and spread it over the greased bread slice evenly. Here, I topped it again with a layer of grated cheese (This is optional). More cheese - more taste :)
  • Cover the filling with another slice of bread and apply ghee over the it.
  • I used tawa for toasting the bread. You can toast it in toaster as well.
  • When both the sides are golden brown and nicely toasted, remove it from hot plate.
  • Serve hot Chilli Cheese Sandwich with green chutney and tomato sauce.
     Chilli Cheese Sandwich
    Vidhya's veg Indian recipes