Fried rice is a rice recipe that originated in china but its indo chinese version has become one of the favorites all indians. Rice sauteed with veggies and soy sauce makes a wonderful delicacy. It can be had just by itself without any sidedish. The following is the recipe for chicken fried rice. The recipe can be modified to get turkey fried rice, mutton fried rice, pork fried rice, beef fried rice or even shrimp fried rice using the appropiate meat. The meatless versions are egg fried rice and vegetable fried rice. For egg fried rice, just skip the meat and increase the number of eggs by 6. For vegetable fried rice, just skip the eggs and meat.
Ingredients
Basmati Rice - 2 cups
Carrot - 1
Celery sticks - 2
Egg scrambled - 2
Ground Pepper- 2 tblsp
Soy sauce - as needed
Boneless skinless chicken- as needed (canned chicken breast can be used)
Salt - to taste
Chicken boulion cubes(optional)
Ginger Garlic paste - 2 tsp
scallions(green onion) - 1 bunch
Tips
- You can also add other vegetables like red cabbage, white caggage, leeks, fennel, green peas, corn etc. Just finely chop them like thin match sticks or grate them.
Method
1. Cook the rice seperately(1 cup rice : 1.5 cup water ratio)
2. Chop the carrot and celery sticks using blender or by hand .
3. If canned chicken is used drain the excess water and cook in the microwave for 2
minutes and shred it.If using the fresh chicken blanch it and shred it.
4. In a wok add little butter add ginger garlic paste and fry the shredded chicken
5. Remove the chicken from wok now add little more butter fry the chopped carrot with salt and pepper.
6. After removing the carrot, fry the chopped celery with butter ,salt and pepper.
7. Similarly fry the green onions with little butter and keep aside.
8. Now in the same wok fry the rice ,little soy sauce and add the fried chicken, scrambled egg, carrot, celery and green onions and fry all together(add salt and pepper as needed).
9. Do step 8 in small batches so that all the ingredients will blend together.
Tips
- You can add 1/4 tsp of ajinomoto with the fried rice for extra flavour.
- The above picture of chicken fried rice has more of soy sauce whereas the picture below of turkey fried rice has just few drops of soy sauce. Just add soy sauce as per your taste.
