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    Home » Recipes » Variety Rice

    Vegetable fried rice recipe, Indo Chinese style

    August 27, 2010 by Raks Anand 68 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Vegetable fried rice

    Vegetable fried rice recipe, a quick fast food one pot dish can be easily prepared at home in easy steps. Learn how to make with step by step pictures.

    The thing I like about Fried rice is the flavour. My hubby also love that very much. This is my fried rice recipe I am loving, which I am hooked, after so many attempts. I prefer and recommend using olive oil, as it better for health. Fried rice needs good amount of oil to get the perfect result. Any oil would work if generously added. If you do not like olive oil flavour, you can use sesame oil next best. Sunflower oil and peanut oil works too.

    The unique flavour that fried rice have comes from the tossing in high flame. When the things in the wok catch fire in high flame, it lends a great flavour. At home, this is not possible with the small burner we have, still try to cook in high flame. Do not let the vegetables cook soft. The total cooking time should be under 10 mins with cooked rice in hands.

    Fried rice

    For getting perfect rice for fried rice:

    Choose any rice, be it basmati rice, fragrant rice or even sona masuri. Just cook it with less water to get separate grains. For basmati, Soak for 10 mins minimum. 1 cup of rice can be cooked with 1 & ½ cups water for 3 whistles in medium flame after first whistle. For sona masuri cook 1 cup of rice with 2 cups water for 3 whistles in medium flame. Once done, add 2 teaspoon oil and a sprinkle of salt and cool down.

    You can refrigerate it for perfect grains to use in fried rice.

    Vegetable fried rice
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    Vegetable fried rice recipe

    Vegetable fried rice recipe, a quick fast food one pot dish can be easily prepared at home in easy steps. Learn how to make with step by step pictures.
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine Indian
    Prep Time 15 minutes
    Cook Time 20 minutes
    Servings 4

    Equipments (Amazon Affiliate links)

    • Wok
    • pressure cooker
    • chopping board
    • knife
    • spatula
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • 1 & ½ cup Basmati rice
    • 1 cup Cabbage chopped
    • 1 Carrot
    • 1 Capsicum small
    • 6 Spring onion sprigs
    • 1 teaspoon crushed black pepper
    • 1 teaspoon Soy sauce
    • ½ teaspoon Ajinomoto optional
    • Salt
    • 4 tablespoon Olive oil or any cooking oil
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    Instructions

    • Soak basmati rice for 10 mins and cook rice with 3 cups water. Cool and make the grains separate. You can keep refrigerated for best results. Or you can even use leftover rice (4 cups cooked rice).
    • Cut the veggies as long thin strips as shown in the picture. Chop the base white part of spring onion and the green part separately.
    • Edited to Add: This is the way I julienne the carrots.Hope it is clear to understand. First cut into thin slices as shown in picture, then stack the slices and cut into julienne.
    • Heat a broad pan in high flame with oil. First add the white part of the spring onion and then carrot, cabbage and capsicum,in order one by one,frying each for 30 secs. (add ajinomoto at this stage,if wanted)
    • Lastly add the pepper and soya sauce and give it a stir. Add the spring onion green part and give it a stir. All the process has to be done in high flame.
    • Add the cooled rice along with salt and mix well. Toss all together until you hear rice crackling sound.

    Notes

    • I used freshly crushed black pepper powder, you can substitute with white pepper powder. Use ½ teaspoon for this recipe if using pepper powder.
    • Don't over fry the veggies,retain its colour and crunchiness.
    • Be liberal in adding oil. Always eat hot.
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    Vegetable fried rice method:

    1. Soak basmati rice for 10 mins and cook rice with 3 cups water. Cool and make the grains separate. You can keep refrigerated for best results. Or you can even use leftover rice (4 cups cooked rice).
    2. Cut the veggies as long thin strips as shown in the picture. Chop the base white part of spring onion and the green part separately.
      All the veggies
    3. Edited to Add: This is the way I julienne the carrots.Hope it is clear to understand. First cut into thin slices as shown in picture, then stack the slices and cut into julienne.
      carrot-slicecarrot-julienne
    4. Heat a broad pan in high flame with oil. First add the white part of the spring onion and then carrot, cabbage and capsicum,in order one by one,frying each for 30 secs. (add ajinomoto at this stage,if wanted)
    5. Lastly add the pepper and soya sauce and give it a stir. Add the spring onion green part and give it a stir. All the process has to be done in high flame.
    6. Add the cooled rice along with salt and mix well. Toss all together until you hear rice crackling sound.

    I prefer this to serve with any kind of Manchurian side dish!

    vegetable fried rice

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Mahimaa's kitchen

      August 27, 2010 at 5:20 am

      yum yum yum. love fried rice. looks very colorful and tempting 🙂

      Reply
    2. Premalatha Aravindhan

      August 27, 2010 at 5:23 am

      wow fried rice luks so colourfull and delicious...Love the pics.

      Reply
    3. notyet100

      August 27, 2010 at 5:24 am

      looks so delicious,..feel like havin this now,..

      Reply
    4. jeyashrisuresh

      August 27, 2010 at 5:36 am

      very colourful fried rice. i too prepare this in the same way. love to have this anytime.gorgeous clicks

      Reply
    5. Sharmilee! :)

      August 27, 2010 at 5:36 am

      Wow perfect looking fried...lovely clicks!!

      Reply
    6. Mahi

      August 27, 2010 at 5:41 am

      nice fried rice raji.photos are cute n clear!

      Reply
    7. srividhya Ravikumar

      August 27, 2010 at 5:43 am

      wow..what a colourful rice...delicious

      Reply
    8. Shanthi

      August 27, 2010 at 6:17 am

      MY SONS LOVE THIS WITH GOBI OR MUSHROOM MANCHURIAN. WONDERFUL POST. RAKS...YOU R ROCKING

      Reply
    9. Saraswathi Iyer

      August 27, 2010 at 6:48 am

      Hi Raks pics are so beautiful and tempting. I just love it.

      Reply
    10. Priti

      August 27, 2010 at 6:48 am

      Looks delish...nice pics dear

      Reply
    11. DEESHA

      August 27, 2010 at 6:50 am

      lovely fried rice, Raks. Nice pics

      Reply
    12. Sanyukta Gour(Bayes)

      August 27, 2010 at 6:52 am

      looks yum ,delicious and mouthwatering....wonderful pics...

      Reply
    13. Happy Cook

      August 27, 2010 at 7:18 am

      I have never added so much peper in fred rice, love the idea, will try it next time.

      Reply
    14. Prathibha

      August 27, 2010 at 7:36 am

      looks really appetizing...my fav one...I lov eto have it with gobi manchurian gravy..Love the long grains of basmati..It actually looked like broken noodles to me in the 1st look..he he

      Reply
    15. Pavithra Srihari

      August 27, 2010 at 7:46 am

      super it looks .. I like that 2 different length stalks used for presentation it looks very cute ... I have never tried with olive oil , should try it hmmm.. looks very yummy da

      Reply
    16. Nags

      August 27, 2010 at 8:22 am

      that looks gorgeous!! question: how did you cut the veg like that?

      Reply
    17. RAKS KITCHEN

      August 27, 2010 at 8:46 am

      You are good at questions,Nags
      Ans: With my IKEA SLITBAR knife 🙂

      Reply
    18. Nags

      August 27, 2010 at 8:47 am

      that's awesome Raks. Very pretty! I thought u used something like a mandoline. can u share this knife for Meet My Kitchen Things? 😀 I would love to showcase that and ur pic of the veggies. can?

      Reply
    19. Chitra

      August 27, 2010 at 9:12 am

      Nice pics.i love tat bowl... Drooling over the fried rice 😉

      Reply
    20. Jay

      August 27, 2010 at 9:29 am

      Dear Raks,
      I love your recipes...always dooable and tasty...!
      The color of clicks rocks..!

      Reply
    21. srikars kitchen

      August 27, 2010 at 10:03 am

      Looks perfect & delicious..nice clicks..

      Reply
    22. Home Cooked Oriya Food

      August 27, 2010 at 11:52 am

      yummy rice... love the combination of veggies and colors of them too...

      Reply
    23. RAKS KITCHEN

      August 27, 2010 at 12:13 pm

      Nags,sure I will send it next week 🙂

      Reply
    24. GEETHA ACHAL

      August 27, 2010 at 12:22 pm

      U had cut the veggies really fine...So nice...I too want to cut it that way...I love fried rice all time...Thanks..Next time sure make a try with olive oil...

      Reply
    25. Vanamala Hebbar

      August 27, 2010 at 12:31 pm

      Nice rice....so colorful..btw i like ur header

      Reply
    26. Sailaja Damodaran

      August 27, 2010 at 2:22 pm

      Super click.............

      Reply
    27. Shabitha Karthikeyan

      August 27, 2010 at 2:52 pm

      Looks so delicious Raji !!! As all have commented simply loved the way you cut the vegetables. I love peppery fried rice and I'm drooling over the pics !!

      Reply
    28. Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal

      August 27, 2010 at 3:36 pm

      wow, look at that wonderful color, beautiful presentation !!!

      Reply
    29. Pavithra

      August 27, 2010 at 3:45 pm

      MY very fav and I too exactly make the same way , and with extra white pepper and dash of chilli vinegar..Looks so good and tempting raji.. Delicious.

      Reply
    30. Priya

      August 27, 2010 at 5:42 pm

      My all time fav..beautiful clicks..

      Reply
    31. Neha

      August 27, 2010 at 6:12 pm

      looks so perfect..I love rice with vegetables,,yours look soooo delicious

      Reply
    32. Santosh Bangar

      August 27, 2010 at 7:18 pm

      hi rice are looking so fabulous and attractive.i think if i get it i eat all. very nutritious

      Reply
    33. SpicyTasty

      August 27, 2010 at 7:47 pm

      Rice looks wonderful.

      Reply
    34. NIDHYA

      August 28, 2010 at 3:56 am

      Fried rice looks tempting and colorful.

      http://aaha-oho.blogspot.com/

      Reply
    35. Bharathy

      August 28, 2010 at 7:33 am

      Loving it!! :)..and also you have cut the veggies so beautifully!!

      Reply
    36. jayasree

      August 28, 2010 at 8:46 am

      Veggies are well chopped. Colorful and very inviting frid rice.

      Reply
    37. vidhas

      August 28, 2010 at 12:15 pm

      Yummy fried rice, wish i can grab the bowl. Asesome click asusual :-), an award is waiting.

      Reply
    38. Sadhana

      August 28, 2010 at 2:27 pm

      Wow!!! What a perfect and delicious rice dear. I love the way u presented it. Pics are inviting...

      Reply
    39. Santosh Bangar

      August 29, 2010 at 8:02 am

      hi Rajeswari
      THANKS u hahe wonderful space very nice pic. I admire ur blog

      Reply
    40. Sushma Mallya

      August 29, 2010 at 3:21 pm

      I love fried rice too and yours look so professional raks...very beautiful clicks...

      Reply
    41. aipi

      August 29, 2010 at 4:40 pm

      Fried rice is my fav too..looks perfect n so colorful..loving it!!

      http://usmasala.blogspot.com/

      Reply
    42. rv

      August 29, 2010 at 6:35 pm

      I love how you have chopped your veggies neatly. Thumbs up.

      Reply
    43. Ramya Vijaykumar

      August 29, 2010 at 10:02 pm

      Yummy delectable and rich with veggies!!!

      Reply
    44. kothiyavunu.com

      August 30, 2010 at 3:55 pm

      Very delicious. Oh! I feel like having some.. Lovely presentation with yummy picture

      Reply
    45. Rachana

      August 30, 2010 at 8:58 pm

      Delicious fried rice! Beautiful clicks!

      Reply
    46. Ruchikacooks

      August 30, 2010 at 10:18 pm

      Fried rice looks so nice raji, just out of a restaurant..I am yet to try your spagetti in chinese style. will do that soon..

      http://ruchikacooks.com

      Reply
    47. women-wisdom.com

      August 31, 2010 at 12:51 am

      Colourful fried rice. Its perfect.

      Reply
    48. Preeti Kashyap

      August 31, 2010 at 11:09 am

      Imake it in a similar way...but the pictures make me drooooooooool

      Reply
    49. Sarah Naveen

      August 31, 2010 at 12:04 pm

      awesome clicks.looks so delicious....love all your recipes

      Reply
    50. Aparna S Mallya

      September 01, 2010 at 7:06 pm

      Great recipe with neat step by step pics. Love the pepper on top.

      Reply
    51. AM

      September 06, 2010 at 5:50 pm

      Now, I wonder how u julienned the cabbage..hehe.

      Reply
    52. ♥Sugar♥Plum♥Fairy♥

      October 18, 2010 at 1:43 am

      I want some NOW, its so so good !!
      love the neat cuts too:-)

      Reply
    53. san

      November 13, 2012 at 7:26 am

      I tried out this one! yumm!

      Reply
    54. Deepa

      March 06, 2013 at 9:35 am

      Hi Raks, thanks for posting such a wonderful recipe... your tips and photos on how to cut the carrots into julienne was very helpful.. it would be nice if you could give some tips on cutting the cabbage into julienne as well...

      Reply
    55. Prasy

      March 26, 2013 at 1:49 am

      Hi Raks, I have tried this multiple times and it always tastes awesome.... Ur recipes are always very good and it makes more fascinating for me to visit ur blog for ur kutti stories u write for every recipe and the stepwise pictures... Thank u 🙂

      Reply
    56. Poornima Saminathan

      April 22, 2013 at 11:56 am

      Luks yummy,BTW which brand basmathi rice do u use? Cos iwhen I make pulao or fried rice, it gets overcooked.

      Reply
    57. RAKS KITCHEN

      April 22, 2013 at 12:04 pm

      I use Lal Quila. The key is to soak the rice as long as you can and cook in less water. Some times I use only 1 : 1 water ratio also .

      Reply
    58. janani ganesh

      July 28, 2013 at 2:14 pm

      Yummy fried rice super

      Reply
    59. Anu Jalari

      July 29, 2013 at 10:36 am

      Recipe tastes good if u substitute olive oil for sesame seed oil.

      Reply
    60. Anu Jalari

      July 29, 2013 at 10:36 am

      Recipe tastes good if u substitute olive oil with sesame seed oil.

      Anu.

      Reply
    61. Indu Rajesh

      November 20, 2013 at 12:11 am

      Wow..looks lovely. What tawa u used here for sauteing?

      Reply
    62. Raks anand

      November 20, 2013 at 12:14 am

      A nonstick wok, got it from ikea

      Reply
    63. Gowthaman Thevanantham

      December 31, 2013 at 6:43 am

      You first clean the carrots. Then length of the carrot cut the carrot in to 4 peaces. like an cylinder. Then cut each cylinder in thin pieces. In western countries called Julian cuts you can google it.

      Reply
    64. Kavitha

      January 03, 2014 at 5:45 am

      I made this along with Knorr chinese veg manchurian balls... Do u have the recipe of that?

      Reply
    65. Kavitha

      January 03, 2014 at 5:45 am

      I made this yesterday and the side dish was Knorr chinese machurian veg balls.. the combination was good.. I can't find Chinese manch veg balls in ur recipe index.. Can u share it?

      Reply
    66. bejo

      March 28, 2014 at 3:28 am

      Hi raks..could you pls provide some veg side dishes names can serve along with fried rice..

      Reply
    67. sayrem

      December 22, 2014 at 10:41 am

      hi raks,
      im confused about when to add the salt. should I cook rice along with salt, or should iadd it to the veggies while frying or should i just add it in the last mixing stage and toss the rice with the salt and veggies? please help. thanks.

      Reply
    68. Mrs. Yoges

      April 26, 2020 at 1:32 pm

      I tried your vegetarian Manchurian gravy and chili paneer.it turned out so well. Everyone in the family loved it.
      Thank you

      Reply

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