Vegetable Fried Rice || Salma (Kolkata) Style

Recipe for Vegetable Fried Rice

Time: Preparation 15 minutes, cooking 20-25 minutes

RECIPE VIDEO

Ingredients

Basmati Rice - 250-300 g
Capsicum - 50 g
Carrot - 50 g
Green Beans - 30 g
Green Peas - 50 g
Garlic (grated) - 1 teaspoon
Onion (medium size, chopped) - 1 pc
Soy sauce - 1 tablespoon
Vinegar - 1 teaspoon
Black pepper - 4 pc
Black pepper powder - 1 teaspoon
Soyabean oil - 2 tablespoon
Salt - as per taste

Method

- Soak the Basmati rice in water for 30 minutes before cooking.

Preparation

- Chop the onion, capsicum, green beans finely
- Separate the green peas seed.
- Grate the garlic.

Cooking

Cooking rice

- Boil water in a pot on high flame.
- Add salt to the boiling water.
[The amount depends on what you like in food]
- Stop cooking when the rice is still little hard.
[Do not overcook or soften the rice. It took me 7 minutes, but the time varies depending on rice quality]
- Drain out all the water from rice and spread it on a dish to cool.

Frying

- Heat pan on medium flame.
- Add soyabean oil and heat it.
- Add black pepper and stir for few (4-5) seconds.
- Add grated garlic, chopped onions and saute for 8-10 seconds.
- Add chopped carrot, green beans and fry for 1 minute.
- Add chopped capsicum, green peas and fry for 2 more minutes.
[Be careful that vegetables do not get too soft]
- Add soy sauce (1/2 tablespoon), 1 teaspoon vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder and salt (as per taste).
- Saute for 4-5 seconds.
- Add cooked rice to the vegetables, mix them well.
- Add the remaining (1/2 tbsp) soya sauce, black pepper powder and mix them.
- Fry for 4-5 minutes on medium flame.

Our vegetable fried rice is ready. The amount mentioned here serves 2 persons.