You can follow the recipe or add the vegetables of your choice.
I love mushrooms but the rest of my family isn’t that keen on them. I’m only telling you this because this recipe could easily be that other favourite curry house rice dish mushroom fried rice. They’re done in the same way.
Just add mushrooms or for that matter add the vegetables of your choice.
For now though, I’ll give you this version of vegetable fried rice and leave it up to you whether you prepare yours like this or experiment and create your own version.
Other popular vegetable you can include are shredded cabbage, peas, spring onions and sweetcorn. I like to add soy sauce to mine which is becoming more common in Indian restaurants.
Cook the garlic and ginger first in the hot oil.
Then add the cubed carrots.
Toss in the rest of the vegetables.
Add the spices and soy sauce.
Add the cold Basmati rice and stir it all up quickly.
Squeeze the lime juice over the top and dig in.
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- 500ml cooked cold rice
- 2 tablespoons garlic and ginger paste
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 carrots – cut into small cubes
- 1 head of broccoli – finely cut
- 6 spears of asparagus – finely cut
- 2 onions – finely cut
- 2 green chillies – finely chopped (more or less to taste)
- ½ teaspoon turmeric
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon madras curry powder
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- Juice of one or two limes
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Heat a wok over high heat and add the oil. When it begins to boil, add the garlic and ginger paste.
- You are working at high heat here so continue stirring continuously so that nothing sticks to the bottom. Add your diced carrots.
- After about a minute, stir in the asparagus, broccoli, onion, chillies and soy sauce. Continue stirring!
- Now add the turmeric, curry powder and cumin powder and stir it all up.
- The vegetables should be just about cooked through after another minute. Stir in the rice. You need to stir fast so that the rice is nicely coated and doesn’t stick to the bottom of your wok.
- Squeeze the lime juice over the top, check for seasoning and serve.