Manasa's cooking journey: Indo Chinese

Ingredients :

For the rice :

Basmati rice - 1 1/2 cup
1 tsp salt
Rice to Water Ratio - 1:1.5
Soak Basmati rice for 20 mins

Other Ingredients:

Eggs - 2 big or 3 small
Carrot - 1/4 cup finely chopped
Beans - 1/4 cup finely chopped
Capsicum - 1/4 cup chopped finely
Cabbage - 1/4 cup finely shredded
Spring onions (white part) - 1/4 cup finely chopped
Spring onions (green part) - 2-3 tbsp finely chopped
Celery - 1/2 tbsp (optional)
Garlic - 2 big cloves finely chopped
Soya sauce - 1 tsp
Chilli Sauce - 1 tsp
Green Chillies - 2-3 (optional) Incase you want to avoid green chillies, all 1.5 tsp pepper pwdr.
Vinegar - 1/2 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 2 tbsp
Butter - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste

Procedure:

Wash rice , add salt and cook with sufficient water (rice :water ratio is 1:5) in an electric cooker or pressure cooker .Once the rice is cooked, gently fluff the rice with a fork and spread it on a plate and apply 1 tsp of oil and keep aside until the rest of the ingredients are ready.

Chop all the vegetables finely and set aside. Keep in mind that the veggies have to be sauteed on medium high flame to retain the crunch and cook them partially.

Take a pan or wok and add oil to it. Once the oil is hot, add garlic and green chilles and fry till the garlic turns light brown. Adding green chillies is optional. You can just substitute them with black pepper powder and chilli sauce.

Then spring onion whites and carrot and saute on medium high for 1-2 mins.

Now add rest of the veggies - beans, capsicum and cabbage and saute for 1-2 mins.

Then add soya sauce, vinegar, chilli sauce, pepper pwder and salt and saute on medium flame for 2 mins. Keep in mind that we already added some salt while cooking rice and add the required salt .

Now, add the rice which was resting in the plate to the veggies and mix gently. Take care while handling the rice to ensure that the rice grains dont break.

Take another pan and add a tbsp of butter. When the butter melt, add eggs and scramble and fry them. Add very little salt for the egg seasoning. Now add these scrambled eggs to the rice and veggie mixture.