Vegetable fried rice recipe – A popular Indo-Chinese recipe made using simple spices, perfect for a lunch box.
Vegetable Rice is a common dish in my home, which I make once a week since my hubby likes it very much. But always make raitha for that. Very rarely I make cauliflower Manchurian for this. Though we all like the Manchurian, since it is deep fried we avoid making this often. After a long time, I made both vegetable rice and cauliflower Manchurian. Here is the recipe for Baby Corn Manchurian .
If you have leftover rice then it is very easy to make this veg fried rice. I have used basmati rice in this recipe, you can use short-grained rice too. The traditional Chinese fried rice includes lots of sauces but I don’t prefer the strong taste of those sauces. If you are a person living in India and think this is a Chinese recipe, definitely it is not. Though in India we say Chinese cuisine, there is a way more difference in the taste. The Indo-Chinese dishes we get in India and the Chinese dishes we get here in Singapore, and Hong Kong are different. They don’t have a dish named Manchurian in their cuisine.
If you are a fan of Indo-Chinese recipes like me, do check out our, Sprouts fried rice, Schezwan fried rice, Mushroom fried rice, Vegan egg fried rice, Poha fried rice
Vegetable fried rice
Ingredients
- 1 cup Basmati rice
- ¼ cup Veggies I used capsicum, carrot, sweetcorn and peas
- 4 cloves Garlic
- a smal piece Ginger
- 2 Green chili
- 1 tsp Soya sauce
- ½ tsp Tomato sauce optional
- ½ tsp Sugar
- ½ tsp Pepper powder
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- Spring onion few to garnish
Instructions
- Soak rice in 1 and 1/4 cup of water for 15 min and pressure cook it. Check out my post on How to cook basmati rice.
- Allow it to cool. Make the ginger, garlic, and chili into a coarse paste. Chop the bottom part of the spring onion finely and keep it aside. Don’t discard the green part.
- In a pan, add 1 tbsp of oil add sugar and add this paste.
- Saute for some time. Now add the white part of the onion which we chopped.
- Saute for 2 to 3 mins. Now add the mixed veggies except capsicum.
- Saute in high flame. Add salt,( if using) tomato sauce, and soya sauce. Saute for 2 mins.
- Add the chopped capsicum. Cook for a minute.
- Switch off the flame mix it with rice and add pepper powder also and mix gently to have an even coat.
- Garnish with the chopped green portion of the spring onion.
Notes
- You can add finely chopped baby corn to the veggies.
Method:
- Soak rice in 1 and 1/4 cup of water for 15 min and pressure cook it. Check out my post on How to cook basmati rice.
- Allow it to cool. Make the ginger, garlic, and chili into a coarse paste. Chop the bottom part of the spring onion finely and keep it aside. Don’t discard the green part.
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- In a pan, add 1 tbsp of oil add sugar and add this paste. Saute for some time. Now add the white part of the onion which we chopped. Saute for 2 to 3 mins. Now add the mixed veggies except capsicum. Saute in high flame. Add salt,( if using) tomato sauce, and soya sauce. Saute for 2 mins. Add the chopped capsicum.
- Cook for a minute.
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- Switch off the flame mix it with rice and add pepper powder also and mix gently to have an even coat.
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- Garnish with the chopped green portion of the spring onion.
Note:
- You can add finely chopped baby corn to the veggies.
- Always ensure that the veggies should be crunchy and not overcooked.
- Vegetable fried rice pairs well with Manchurian
Delectable dish..Awesome click Jeya..
Perfect combo.. Waiting for your Gobi manchurian recipe too!!
I can't get this color in fried rice; somehow it turns a bit dark.. I'll try your version soon, as V is a big fan of Fried rice!
Thanks for sharing it dear!!
Wow nice click.GOOD LUCK
wow, very nice.colorful..i dont use spring onions..I too follow the same method..will check out ur gobi manchurian 🙂
Very nice looking fried rice. That manchurian looks wonderful next to it…
Wow! Now that is one colorful dish and you have me craving for some vegetable rice
Thats a tempting pic…loved the way u presented it,looks delicious
Wonderful click….
Feast to our eyes only!! Lucky, people who tasted it!!
The rice is sooo tempting and a wonderful photo there.Waiting for your manchurian recipe.
Looks relishing:)
Hi jeyashri,
fried rice luks so rich with gobi manchurian…nice presentation with bright backdrop:)
Drool worthy pictures Jeyasri! Me to make similar to this,vegetables have reained their colour so looks perfect!
thank u so much for ur comments ,so encouraging.will soon post the recipe of the manchurian
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Gal,I m just craving for tht combo now..fried rice looks very colorful and I loved that bowl u served in the fried rice,the last pic..manchurian looks so colorful,I hope even the next post will be also very colorful
Hey jeyashree,
Would you consider moving to the US? My next door house may be vacant soon. I am getting tired of just looking at the awesome posts/pictures you post and salivating over it on an empty stomach. It is about time I started tasting your stuff, don't you think?
Just kidding. 🙂 Great post once again.
Lovely rice with beautiful click…
Lovely, looks so colorful and enticing. Can't wait to see what's next.
Yummy veg rice, lovley combo with manchurian. Love to taste it. An award is waiting for u come and collect it.
Hi Jeyashri,
I love fried rice….
Wonderful Click
Nice click … looks very delicious. There are a few awards waiting for you in our blog dear .. please collect them.
Hello Jeyashri…
Vegetable fried rice lokks yumm………..
wow what a delicious rice with lovely colors..loved the garnishing with spring onion..
nice blog yarr..will come often..following u ..if u have time visit my blog too
Jeyashri y r we adding soya sauce, can we do it without that and without spring onions adding normal onions
Both soy sauce and spring onions are used to add flavor to the rice. I recommend you to replace the spring onions with normal onions but soy sauce u try to add.
Hello Jeyashri,
Thanks for posting the recipes. Could you specify which brand of soya sauce to use. In Singapore most of Soy sauce are rather too salty, I found.
I generally buy the Fair price brand light soy sauce
When to add sugar ??
You have to add after adding oil. I updated in the post too
Hi. Accidentally landed to your blog. Very nyc and easy recipes. I tried fried rice. Big hit.
Lovely recipe. Tried it today and it tasted excellent. Thank you so much. But my fried rice was red in colour. Could it be because of the tomato sauce ? I didn’t have to add any tomato sauce or chilli sauce while eating. So I presume I had added more quantity and hence the colour.
Yes that could be the reason for the red color. More sauce