It is Fri & it is quaternary of July! Today is doubly special! It is the American Independence day together with Fiesta Friday! I am going to celebrate past times taking a colorful good for y'all vegetarian fried rice to Fiesta Friday# 23! I hope Angie @ the Novice Gardner who hosts Fiesta Friday, Co-hosts Margie @ La Petite Casserole and Sylvia @ Superfoodista and all the boyfriend bloggers similar it.
I own got e'er enjoyed Chinese cuisine. Who doesn't similar Chilli Chicken, Chicken Manchurian, Hot together with Sour Chicken and the ubiquitous Chinese fried rice ?Who doesn't wishing that they could imitate the eating theater manner dishes at dwelling describe solid with the same taste?? I own got tried together with succeeded too! For this I own got to give thank y'all Ashita didi who introduced me to the basics of authentic Chinese cooking. The play tricks is to educate inwards an authentic atomic pose out 26 wok on high flame.Not the wok that y'all larn inwards Ikea.
Also the vegetables should live crisp together with non overcooked. If y'all own got all the ingredients educate together with inwards front end of you, cooking Chinese manner is pretty quick & easy. Now I tin own got eating theater manner fried rice together with noodles at dwelling describe solid whatever fourth dimension of the 24-hour interval or night. For us,my fried rice is filled amongst crisp colorful vegetables together with is a one-pot dish that tin live eaten past times itself. This is how I brand my fried rice:
Servings: 4-6
Ingredients:
Leftover cooked rice: four cupsOnion: 1 medium, sliced lengthwise
Garlic: 4-6cloves, chopped fine( I similar extra garlic)
Ginger: 1 inch, chopped fine.
Green chillies: 2-3( depending on the spice level), chopped fine.
Carrot: 1 medium, peeled together with cutting julienne.
Green beans: 10, cutting diagonally into 1 inch length.
Cabbage: 1/2 cup, sliced lengthwise.
Green bell pepper: 1/4,chopped julienne
Red bell pepper: 1/4, chopped julienne
Spring onion: 2, chopped fine.
Soy sauce: four tbsp
Vinegar: 1 tbsp
Cooking oil: 2-3 tbsp( I utilisation olive oil)
Black pepper powder: 1/4 tsp
Sugar:1/2 tsp
Salt: to taste
Method:
Mix soy sauce and a niggling tabular array salt amongst the mutual frigidity rice together with continue aside.
Heat crude oil inwards a wok on high flame. Now add together the garlic,sauté for few seconds, add together the chopped ginger, sauté for few seconds, add together the dark-green chillies together with the onions inwards together with sauté until the onion starts to plow transparent. Add the vegetables ane after the other, sautéing for a infinitesimal inwards between, depending on the fourth dimension it requires to cook, kickoff amongst the ane that takes the most time. In my case, I threw inwards the dark-green beans first, together with hence the carrots , cabbage, together with lastly the peppers. Add inwards the saccharide together with dark pepper together with mix well.
Add the rice inwards together with toss until it is nicely mixed together with warm. Add the vinegar together with toss again. Garnish amongst finely chopped saltation onions.
Serve hot.
Enjoy!
Cooking made easy:
Fried rice is a perfect means to larn rid of leftover rice. In fact, if made amongst freshly made rice it turns mushy.:)
Any combination of vegetables listed to a higher house tin live used depending on what y'all own got available inwards your refrigerator together with pantry. You could skip bell peppers if y'all don't similar them. You could add together equally much or equally niggling equally y'all wishing together with the fried rice volition come upwardly out good.
You could plow it into egg fried rice past times frying an egg at the beginning, scrambling it together with and hence adding the other ingredients.
If y'all wishing to add together chicken together with larn inwards chicken fried rice, add together seize amongst teeth size chicken pieces after the onions together with sauté until the chicken is cooked. You tin together with hence add together the other vegetables ( lesser quantities) or skip it all together.
I tend to fry egg/ chicken separately together with continue it separately together with utilisation it equally a topping at the tabular array equally per private personal preference.
You tin also add together less soy sauce, dark-green chillies( if in that place are niggling kids eating)if bespeak live equally these condiments tin live added subsequently at the tabular array in ane lawsuit again equally per private preference.
Tip for good for y'all living:
Use vegetables to mass upwardly your meals. Veggies when chopped fine or cutting minor together with mixed inwards one-pot dishes similar fried rice concur to a greater extent than appeal together with flavour for both children together with adults than when served separately. Even when y'all brand chicken or egg fried rice, own to ensure that y'all throw inwards at to the lowest degree 2-3 kinds of vegetables equally good inwards there. This non alone makes it expect pretty together with adds book to your dish; it makes it balanced, nutritious, giving y'all at to the lowest degree 2-3 servings of your daily vegetable requirement.
Food for thought:
I am e'er to a greater extent than interested inwards what I am virtually to practise than inwards what I own got already done. Rachel Carson