Vegetable fired rice or Chinese fried rice is delicious Indo Chinese recipe. These fried rice are made with veggies. If you want to make it gulten-free then you can use gulten-free soy sauce.

Preparation Time : 40 MINS

Cook Time : 20 MINS

Total Time : 1 HR

Serving : 3

Course : Main Course

Cuisine : Indo Chinese

Ingredients

For Cooking Rice

• 1 cup basmati rice or long grained rice
• Water 4.5 cups
• Salt as required or 1/2 teaspoon
• Vegetable oil or cooking oil 2-3 drops

Other Ingredients

• Finely chopped spring onion whites 1/4 cup (scallions)
• 1/4 cup finely chopped carrot
• Finely chopped cabbage 1/4 cup
• 1/4 cup finely chopped french beans
• Finely chopped mushroom 1/4 cup
• 2 teaspoon finely chopped celery
• Capsicum 1/4 cup finely chopped (bell peppers – green , red, and yellow)
• Small sized 3-4 finely chopped garlic
• 1/2 inch finely chopped ginger
• 3 teaspoon soy sauce or add as required
• 1 teaspoon vinegar or rice vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder
• 1 star anise (chakri phool)
• 2 tablespoon oil
• salt as required

For Garnish

• 2 tbsp finely chopped spring onion greens

Process

How to cook rice for fried rice

• Rinse the rice thoroughly until the water is clear of starch. Soak rice in water for 30 minutes. Drain and keep aside.
• Take a pot or any utensil in which you want to boil the rice, add 4.5 cups water, salt and 2 drops of oil. Bring to gentle boil.
• Now, add drained rice into the hot water.
• Cook the rice on medium heat or flame. Do not cover the pot with lid.
• Check the rice in between. When the rice just cooked, off the flame and drain the rice.
• Cover the rice and keep the rice aside till it cools down completely.

How to make fried rice or Chinese fried rice

• Take a pan or wok, add oil and heat it up.
• Add star anise, fry it for some seconds (30-40 seconds).
• Now, add finely chopped garlic and chopped ginger. Saute them for 1 minute.
• Add spring onion whites. Saute it for 2 minutes.
• Now, add all finely chopped veggies (celery, carrot, capsicum, cabbage, beans, and mushroom). Stir fry the veggies on medium flame.
• Continuously stir the vegetables and uniformly cooked the veggies. Make sure do not burnt the vegetables.
• Now, add soy sauce, vinegar, black pepper powder, and salt. Mix well.
• Add boiled rice. Stir fry for 2-3 minutes until sauce has coated the rice.
• Transfer rice into serving plate.
• Garnish with spring onion greens.
• Serve vegetable fried rice plain or with Indo Chinese vegetable gravy.
• Delicious vegetable fried rice or Chinese fried rice is ready to serve.

Tips

• To stop cooking process you can rinse the boiled rice with water. So that they do not stick with each other.
• Chop beans very finely because they take more time to cook.
• keep in mind soy sauce already has salt so keep a check while adding salt.
• You can also add your choice of veggies.
• If you like sweet taste in vegetable fried rice then you can also add tomato sauce.
• You can skip celery if you do not have but celery give a real Chinese taste.