Vegetable Fried Rice

Vegetable fried rice is an easy way to sneak peak the vegetables in my house and can be easily made to go with any vegetarian or non vegetarian curry. Below one is just carrot and spring onions. Add any vegetables of your choice.

Basmati rice - 2 cups

Carrot - 2 medium

spring onion - 1 or 2 bunches.

vegetable stock or chicken stock - 2 cups

water - 2 cups

garam masala - 1/2 tsp

salt to taste

oil or ghee.

Make your own stock or use store bought. To make your own boil water with chopped onion,carrot and celery with salt and whole garam masala for about 45 minutes. Strain and use.

You can make a large batch and freeze it.

Soak the basmati rice for 15 minutes. Strain.

Thinly slice the vegetables.

To cook the rice add a couple of tsp of oil or ghee and fry the rice lightly.

Add 2 cups of stock and 2 cups of water. Check for salt.

Keep in high. When it boils reduce flame to medium.

When you see the water is almost gone and there will be holes on top of rice, mix it once and sim the flame. Switch off and keep it closed for some time.

In a wide pan, heat some oil, fry the sliced vegetables until well done.

Add salt necessary for the vegetables.

Add garam masala powder and saute.

Add the cooked rice and saute a couple of minutes with light hand.

Done.