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Delicious Vegetable Fried Rice
April 19th, 2009 | 
Author: One of the tasty and yummy South Indian food items is the vegetable fried rice. The recipe for cooking this delicious food is as follows.
Ingredients required to prepare vegetable fried rice are:
- 3 cups rice
- 1/2 cup finely chopped carrot
- 1/2 cup finely chopped cabbage
- 1/2 cup peas
- 100 grams finely chopped beans
- 1 sliced onion
- 2 finely chopped spring onions
- 2 green chilies which are to be cut lengthwise
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped ginger
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
- 1 tablespoon soya sauce
- 4 tablespoons oil
- 1/2 tablespoon pepper powder
- Salt to taste
Follow the below steps to prepare vegetable fried rice:
- Firstly soak 3 cups of rice in water for about 15 minutes and drain.
- Take some water in a bowl. Add rice and salt to it and boil it till rice becomes tender.
- Cook the rice in such a way that each grain should be separate. Don’t overcook.
- When the rice is cooked, drain the water. Now again add some cold water to it. Again drain using a sieve and keep aside.
- Take a pan and add oil to it. Now heat the pan and add chopped vegetables to it.
- Cook the vegetables till they become crispy.
- Add salt and pepper to it.
- Now add the rice which is cooked and mix well.
- Add soya sauce and mix well. Cook for 3 minutes.
- Hot and delicious vegetable fried rice is now ready to serve.
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Sago Kichidi
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of Sago
- 1/2 cup of peanuts
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- Salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon of oil
- 1 teaspoon of ghee
- 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds
- 3 green chilies
- 2 curry leaves
- Soak the sago in water for overall night. Seine the water from mixture.
- Mash the sago partially. Fry the peanuts without oil.
- Add salt, sugar and peanuts to the sago.
- Heat the pan with oil or ghee and add cumin seeds, finely cut green chili and curry leaves.
- Add the two mixtures. Heat it for ten minutes and switch off the stove.
- Finally add wet chopped coconut and lime juice if interested.
Boiled potato, carrot is made into small pieces and can be added. Honey can be added instead of sugar. This food item can be digested very easily. As it contains fewer vitamins, dry fruits, potato and coconut milk, can be taken as breakfast or evening snacks.
Nutritional values:
100g of Sago Kichidi contains 87g of carbohydrates, 0.2g of fat and proteins.
A Delicious Green Pea Rice
A tasty and delicious Green Pea Rice can be prepared and served hot by following the below recipe.
- 1 cup of basmati rice
- 2 cups of water
- 1/2 cup of green peas
- 3 tablespoon of chopped onion
- 4 cloves
- 2 cardamoms
- Salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon of ginger garlic paste
- 2 green chilies
- 2 teaspoon of olive oil
Preparation steps
- Soak the rice for half an hour.
- Heat a pan with some oil, add green chili, cloves, cardamom, ginger garlic paste, green peas into it and stir them well.
- Add four cups of water and salt to taste into it.
- When the water gets boiled, add basmati rice and again boil it.
- Delicious green pea rice is ready to serve.
- It tastes good with curd.
Green peas contain vitamin K along with other vitamins. It is rich in fibers, proteins which help in digestion and calcium helps in strengthening of bones. Olive oil contains less amount of cholesterol which helps in giving strength to heart and for maintaining blood levels and is also a good medicine for cancer.
Brown Rice Salad
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of Brown rice
- 4 teaspoons of olive oil
- 2 teaspoons of vinegar
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 tablespoon of black pepper
- 1 cucumber
- 2 tablespoons of finely chopped carrot
- 1 apple
- 1 capsicum
- 2 teaspoons of finely chopped coriander leaves
- 2 tablespoons of peanuts
Procedure:
- Fry the peanuts in a pan and remove the peel.
- Cut the cucumber, capsicum and apple into small pieces.
- Take four cups of water into a bowl and boil it.
- Add little amount of salt to taste and brown rice to the boiling water.
- Finally add olive oil, vinegar, black pepper, sliced cucumber, carrot, apple, coriander and peanuts to it.
- Stir this mixture well.
- After two minutes, off the stove.
- If needed we can also add potato, beans, tomato and leafy vegetables.
- Now hot and tasty brown rice salad is ready to serve
Healthy Benefits:
Brown rice is rich in fiber content. B-1 vitamin which is present in brown rice helps in maintaining glucose level in blood. It decreases the diabetic and cancer cells. One cup of brown rice gives 216cal of energy. Brown Rice not only rich in magnesium, selenium, B-3 vitamin,B-6 vitamin, phosphorous, iron, fatty acids but also other eighty types of minerals.