Vegetable Fried Rice

Fried rice is a popular dish all over the world and it is very very simple and easy to make. You can also try this recipe with leftover veggies, meat, plain white rice. It's a simple, very tasty and satisfying meal. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients

• 1 cup raw Rice
• 2 Onions,medium sized, very finely chopped
• 1 Carrot,medium sized, very finely chopped
• 4 Green Beans, very finely chopped
• 50 gms Cabbage, very finely chopped
• 3 Green Chillies, very finely chopped
• 5 cloves Garlic, very finely chopped
• 1 inch Ginger piece, very finely chopped
• 1 tbsp Light Soya Sauce
• 1 tsp Chilly sauce
• 1 tsp Pepper powder
• 1/2 tsp Chaat masala(optional)
• 3 tbsp Oil
• Salt to taste

Method

• Wash the rice and pressure cook for 3 whistles. When the pressure released, remove the lid and transfer to a large plate and leave it to cool. Or cook the rice in boiling water, drain and leave it to cool.

• Meanwhile heat oil in a wok, when hot add the chopped garlic and ginger and fry for 15 seconds.

• Add the chopped onions, green chillies, carrot, beans, cabbage and stir fry for 5 Min's.

• Then add in soya sauce, chilly sauce, pepper powder, chaat masala and cook for another 2 Min's.

• Next add the rice and enough salt and stir fry and toss them well and switch off the flame.

• Serve with tomato ketchup or with your favorite sauce and side dish.

P.S
* You can modify this recipe by adding any veggies of your choose
* Do not try to fry the rice until it's completely cool otherwise the rice will be sticky.

Tomato Soup

I love soup at any time of the year but particularly in winter.I could say it's a comfort food on cold winter mornings as they warm up from inside. Hence i just love winter and soup. So today's recipe is a very easy tomato soup which is my all time favorite soup. It taste best when served with bread chunks. Here is the piping hot ladleful of tomato soup. 

Ingredients

• 1 Onion,medium sized roughly chopped
• 3 Tomatoes, medium sized roughly chopped
• 1 tbsp Butter
• 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
• 1 tsp Peppercorns
• 3 cloves of Garlic
• a pinch of Turmeric powder
• Few Coriander leaves for garnishing
• Salt to taste

Method

• Melt the butter in a saucepan, add cumin seeds, garlic and peppercorns to it and fry for 30 seconds.

• Add the roughly chopped onions and fry for 1 minute or till it turns pink, do not fry golden brown.

• Add the chopped tomatoes and cook till it becomes soft.

• Cool and then blend it in a mixer to get smooth puree.

• Transfer the mixture to saucepan and add 3 cups of water, turmeric powder and salt and mix well.

• Bring it to boil, switch off the flame,

• Strain the mixture through a strainer, you can skip this step also.

• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with bread sticks.

Makes 3 Cups.