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Simple Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe | How to cook Basmati Rice ???

June 3, 2013 by Premalatha Aravindhan 32 Comments

Fried rice
Who will say no to fried rice? It’s every ones favourite.It is very simple rice variety and easy to make.It is important to make the rice grainy for fried rice.If the rice turns stick,we won’t get it perfectly so i thought to post how to cook basmati rice before proceeding  to the fried rice recipe.


Stove top method,

We need:

1 cup Basmati Rice
2 cups Water

Fried Rice
Wash and soak rice for 15-30 minutes before cooking.Drain the water completely.Boil 2 cups of water in a pan.Once the water gets boiled well,add in the drained rice.Keep the flame in medium and close it with a lid.Let it to cook.Once the rice gets cooked,switch off the flame then open the lid and fluff the rice with a fork .
Tips:
Keep the flame in medium while cooking because sometimes the low flames makes the rice sticky.

By electric cooker,

We need:

1 cup Basmati Rice
1 and 1/2 cups Water

Veg Fried rice
Wash the rice and soak it for 15-30 minutes and drain the water. Add 1 and 1/2 cup water and rice in the vessel that comes with the electric cooker and switch on it. It will switch off automatically once it is done.This is the most simple and fast way of cooking basmati rice.

Fried Rice
Tips and Tricks:

  • Choose the good brand of basmati rice,soak it at least for 15 minutes before cooking.It makes the rice to cook soon.
  • You can add salt if you are not making any sweet use the rice.
  • Always use fork to fluff the rice so that the grain do not break.

Lets proceed with the Veg fried rice recipe:

Yields : 2-3
Preparation & cooking time: Under 35 minutes
Cuisine : Indo Chinese

Ingredients:

2 cups steamed rice
2 cups vegetables (i used beans, carrots, cabbage and capsicum)
1/4 cup spring onions.finely chopped
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp chopped garlic
2 tsp minced ginger
1/2 tsp pepper powder
1/2 tsp soya sauce
1 tsp vinegar
salt as required

Method:

Fried Rice

  • Julienne cut the vegetables and make it ready.Heat oil in a wok.Reserve little spring onion for garnishing and add the remaining spring onion,chopped garlic,minced ginger,saute well.
  • Add the vegetables and saute for few seconds.
  • Add in the soya sauce,pepper powder,vinegar and soya sauce,saute well.

Fried Rice

  • Check above procedure to cook basmati rice and then add the steamed rice,mix it with sauce.
  • Saute for few seconds and remove it from the stove. Garnish it with Spring onions.

Fried Rice
Here is the rice is ready.It goes well with all kinds of indo chinese or any gravy.Enjoy!!!

My notes:

Don’t add the hot steaming rice into the pan,once you cooked the rice let it cool down for sometime and then start making fried rice.
Don’t saute the vegetables for long because the vegetables becomes too soft if you saute it for long.
 
Have a nice day!!!

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Comments

  1. prathibha Garre says

    June 3, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    love fried rice any time….u made it beautifully

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  2. Shanavi says

    June 3, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    perfect perfect fried rice, good post for the beginners as well..Super Prema, loved the presentation very much

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  3. Laxmi says

    June 3, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    nice post for beginners.. lovely clicks 🙂

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  4. Veena Theagarajan says

    June 3, 2013 at 3:01 pm

    perfect rice.. You can never get bored with it

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  5. Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj says

    June 3, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    wow wow.. super tempting dear… looks very very delicious…

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  6. Priya Anandakumar says

    June 3, 2013 at 3:52 pm

    Super perfect lovely fried rice, very lovely clicks…

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  7. Anu Shoj says

    June 3, 2013 at 5:40 pm

    wow beautiful looking fried rice…nice clicks…
    Anu’s Healthy Kitchen – Barley Uttapam / Pancake

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  8. Divya Shivaraman says

    June 3, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    useful post and that veg rice is perfect for eyes and tummy

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  9. Wer SAHM says

    June 4, 2013 at 2:39 am

    too good and yummy…. tasty easy fried rice…nic clicks

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  10. Priti S says

    June 4, 2013 at 3:01 am

    nice usefull post prema …..as you say who doesn’t love fried rice …looks yum

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  11. Akila says

    June 4, 2013 at 3:11 am

    Good tips n veg fried rice looks awesome

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  12. Sangeetha Nambi says

    June 4, 2013 at 4:13 am

    Super tempting and inviting rice bowl !

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  13. Shruti Dhingra Wahi says

    June 4, 2013 at 4:43 am

    Drooling here ……Useful tips too 🙂

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  14. Vimitha Anand says

    June 4, 2013 at 11:07 am

    Love fried rice… nice recipe Prema

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  15. Sona - quick picks/pick quicks says

    June 4, 2013 at 11:42 am

    just feel like digging straight into that plate. lovely..and nice post too.

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  16. Rumana Ambrin says

    June 4, 2013 at 12:26 pm

    Wow!!! What a awesome looking bowl of fried rice.. I simply loved it…

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  17. suhaina aji says

    June 4, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    That bowl of rice looks yumm prema. Very colourful…

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  18. JEYASHRI SURESH says

    June 4, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    Fantastic post and i love to have this anytime

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  19. Hema says

    June 4, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    Looks so colorful and very very tempting..

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  20. Nagashree says

    June 5, 2013 at 12:24 am

    Nicely made fried rice, good tips on cooking fluffy Basmati rice

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  21. Swathi Iyer says

    June 5, 2013 at 2:21 am

    Delicious vegetable fried rice. Looks perfect.

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  22. Priya Suresh says

    June 5, 2013 at 7:55 pm

    Prefectly cooked basmati rice, colourful and droolworthy fried rice.

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  23. sushmita pandit says

    August 25, 2013 at 11:04 am

    Thats a lovely and easy recipe…wonderful

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  24. Meenakshi Balasubramanian says

    December 19, 2013 at 7:58 am

    tried this receipe using your tips.. came out really well

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  25. Seema Mathew says

    January 19, 2014 at 1:38 pm

    Perfect explanation for a perfect fried rice…am gonna try it now…literally…Thankx a lot!!!

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  26. Seema Mathew says

    January 19, 2014 at 1:39 pm

    Perfect recipe for the perfect fried rice…am gonna try it now…literally..Thankx a lot!!!

    Reply
  27. Anuja M Suresh says

    March 26, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    Let me try nw

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  28. Anuja M Suresh says

    March 26, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    Let me try nw

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  29. Anuja M Suresh says

    March 26, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    Let me try nw

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  30. Anuja M Suresh says

    March 26, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    Let me try nw

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  31. Deepa R says

    April 12, 2014 at 7:06 am

    Hi Prema… Thanks for the simple and easy recipe

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  32. sanam arzoo says

    April 22, 2014 at 9:20 am

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