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Mushroom Egg Fried Rice

Mushroom egg fried rice. A delicious and nutritious one pot meal with sweet corn and green peas. You can use carrot, baby corn, cauliflower, beans or any vegetable of your choice. An easy and quick to make yet absolutely delicious and flavorful rice. You can also use leftover rice to make this fried rice.

You may like some more rice recipes on this blog.

1. Mexican green rice

2. Tricolor rice

3. Carrot rice

4. Mexican rice

5. Beetroot rice

6. Mint rice

7. Spanish moulded rice

8. Aloo chutney pulao

9. Korean rice

10. Corn peas barista fried rice

11. Easy pulao

12. Saffron rice

13. Mix vegetable fried rice

And here are some Indo Chinese recipes

1. Ginger noodles

2. Broccoli mushroom noodles with sriracha sauce

3. Mint noodles

4. Schezwan paneer

5. Paneer capsicum stir fry

This week Preethi Prasad of Preethicuisine suggested the theme Lunar New Year Fest for 284 #Foodiemonday bloghop. Preethi suggested us to make some dishes according to lunar new year. And my contribution is this delicious Chinese style fried rice with eggs and mushrooms. Preethi has an amazing blog with numerous delicious and healthy recipes. I have bookmarked her unique recipe Raw banana fried rice to try. Do visit her space for many more wonderful recipes.

For this recipe rice shouldn’t be over cooked add sticky. You can use leftover rice to make this fried rice. I have quartered the mushrooms but you can chop the mushrooms into small pieces if you like. Cauliflower, carrot, baby corn, French beans or any vegetable can be used in this rice. Add your favourite vegetables and sauce and enjoy the delectable taste. Adding more fresh vegetables will make your rice more nutritious and colorful. You can serve it with manchurian, chilli chicken, schezwan paneer etc. But this rice is superbly delicious and flavorful so you don’t need any side dish with it.

Recipe

Basmati rice – 1 cup

Mushroom – 200 gram

Onion – 2, sliced

Green chilli – 2, finely chopped

Egg – 2

Frozen sweet corn – 1/3 cup

Frozen green peas – 1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Vinegar – 2 tablespoon

Green chili sauce – 1/2 tablespoon

Soya sauce – 1 tablespoon

Schezwan sauce – 2 tablespoon

Oil – 2 tablespoon + 2 teaspoon

Method

1. Rinse the rice well and soak in water for 15 minutes. Boil sufficient water in a pan. When water starts to boil add drained rice and stir. Cook the rice until rice becomes soft but not mushy.

2. Remove from heat when 90 percent cooked and immediately pour into a colander to strain the water.

3. Wash the mushrooms. Chop each mushroom into 4 pieces.

3. Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan or wok. Add sliced onion and finely chopped green chilli. You can also add a few minced garlic if you want. Fry till onion starts to change it’s colour.

4. Add quartered mushrooms and little salt. Mix well. Mushrooms will release water so cover and cook till dried up. Keep stirring in between.

5. Now add green peas and sweet corn. Saute for 2 minutes more.

6. Add the cooked rice, all the sauce, vinegar and salt. Add salt carefully. We are using sauce and sauce contains salt. Mix well.

7. With the help of a spatula place the rice on the sides of the wok or pan and make a hole in the middle. Add two teaspoon oil and break 2 eggs in the middle.

8. Stir well to cook the eggs just like bhurji or scramble eggs. You can add 2 more eggs if you want. Now mix everything well. Stir gently to avoid breaking the rice.

9. Taste and adjust the seasoning. You can add more sauce or vinegar if required. Fry the rice for 1 – 2 minutes more. Enjoy the mushroom egg fried rice with chilli chicken, schezwan paneer, manchurian etc.

Notes

1. You can use any vegetable of your choice to make the rice more colorful and nutritious.

2. Increase or decrease the amount of sauce according to your taste.

3. You can add more green chilli if you want your rice spicy. Or skip if you are making for kids.

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Mix Vegetable Fried Rice

Mix Vegetable Fried rice. Fried rice with all the seasonal vegetables. An aromatic, no onion garlic and easy to make rice dish from Bengali cuisine. You will love the delectable taste and flavour.

Fried carrots, French beans, cauliflower, green peas ,cashew nuts and raisins made this rice absolutely delicious. You can use whatever vegetables you like and available. And the rice is flavored with whole spices and Bengali garam masala.

You can serve this fried rice with any curry or

Khejur aamsotto chutney

Mango chutney

Chicken dak bungalow

Savoury rasgulla korma

To get some more recipes from Bengali cuisine click here.

And for some more rice recipes click on the name below.

1. Mexican green rice

2. Tricolour rice

3. Carrot rice

4. Mexican rice

5. Beetroot rice

6. Mint rice

7. Spanish moulded rice

8. Aloo chutney pulao

9. Korean rice

10. Corn peas barista fried rice

11. Easy pulao

12. Saffron rice

Monday again and our 281 #Foodiemonday bloghop theme is Variety Rice Special suggested by Narmadha who blog at Nams Corner. Narmadha is a very talented blogger. I always love her authentic South Indian recipes. I have bookmarked her Veg lunch menu and Curry leaves rice to try. I am sure you will love to visit her space for more authentic, innovative and healthy recipes.

This fried rice recipe is very simple and easy to make. Its a no onion garlic recipe but you can use sliced onion if you want. After adding whole spices add sliced onion with chopped green chilli and fry. When onion becomes golden brown add green peas. You can also make it with leftover rice but rice shouldn’t be over cooked. I have used carrots, French beans, cauliflower and green peas. If you don’t like any of these vegetables you can omit it.

Recipe

Basmati Rice – 1 cup

Carrot – 2

French beans – 100 gram

Cauliflower florets – 1/2 cup

Green peas – 1/2 cup

Green chilli – 3, finely chopped

Green cardamom – 4

Cinnamon – 1 inch piece

Cloves – 4

Bay leaf – 2

Cumin seeds – 1/2 teaspoon

Refined oil – 2 tablespoon

Ghee or clarified butter – 2 tablespoon

Salt – 1 & 1/2 teaspoon or to taste

Sugar – 2 teaspoon or taste

Bengali garam masala – 1/2 teaspoon

Method

1. Rinse the rice well. Soak in water for 15 minutes. Drain the water and keep aside.

2. Heat sufficient water in a pan. When water starts to rolling boil add the rice. Stir and cook until rice becomes soft. Rice shouldn’t be mushy. Keep checking, remove from heat when 90 percent cooked. Check the rice by pressing between your fingers. Strain the rice immediately on a colander to drain the water well.

3. Spread the rice on a plate to cool down. Add salt and sugar and mix well. Add sugar according to your taste. I have used 2 and 1/2 teaspoon sugar, but you can use less sugar. But don’t skip it, add at least 1 teaspoon for taste. Be careful, rice shouldn’t be broken.

4. Wash all the vegetables well. Chop French beans into 1/2 inch pieces. Peel the carrots. Chop into small cubes. Cut the cauliflower into small florets.

5. Marinate the carrots, beans and cauliflower florets with little salt.

6. Crush green cardamom, cinnamon and cloves in a mortar pestle.

7. Heat ghee and oil in a pan or wok. Fry the carrot cubes. Transfer fried carrots to a plate.

8. Now fry the French beans for 1 – 2 minutes. Beans should be remain green. Remove the fried beans from oil.

9. Fry the cauliflower florets till golden brown and remove from oil.

10. Fry the cashew nuts till golden brown and remove from oil. Fry the raisins. When raisins starts to fluff up immediately remove from oil. You can use the raisins without frying if you want.

11. Add cumin seeds, bay leaves, crushed cardamom, cinnamon and cloves in the same oil ghee mixture. When cumin seeds starts to splutter and green peas and finely chopped green chilli. Sprinkle little salt. Saute till green peas becomes tender. To add onion see notes.

12. Now add rice, fried cashew nuts, raisins and all the fried vegetables. Mix well.

13. Fry for 2 – 3 minutes. Stir gently. Rice should be intact. Add 1/2 teaspoon Bengali garam masala powder, mix well and switch off the heat. Your Bengali style fried rice is ready. Serve hot with kosha chicken, fish kalia, dum aloo, dim kosha, chhanar dalna, mutton curry, chutney or any curry.

Notes

1. You can use sliced onion if you want. Add sliced onion after adding cumin, bay leaves, cardamom, cinnamon and cloves and fry. Add green peas when onion becomes light brown.

2. Add green chilli according to your taste.

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Tricolour Rice

Happy Republic day in advance.
We will celebrate it tomorrow 26th January . We love the combination of energizing colours of our Indian flag.

This week our #Foodiemonday #bloghop team decided to create the same spirit in our food. So theme of this week is tricolour.
And my contribution is tricolour rice.

Three colour and three different taste. My kitchen filled with lovely aroma. Three different flavour made this rice super delicious.
Enjoy this aromatic tricolour rice on this republic day.

Recipe

Basmati rice – 1 cup

Ghee or clarified butter – 1 and 1/2 tablespoon

Cumin seeds – 1/2 teaspoon

Cardamom – 4 broken

Cloves — 3

Cinnamon – a small stick

Bay leaf – 1

Salt to taste

Sugar to taste

For orange colour

Orange carrot – 2 medium chopped or grated

Tomato – 1 chopped

Salt to taste

Oil – 1 tablespoon

Onion – 1 chopped

Ginger paste – 1/2 teaspoon

Garlic paste – 1/2 teaspoon

Kashmiri red chilli powder – 1 teaspoon

Cumin powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Garam masala powder – 1/4 teaspoon optional

For green colour

Coriander leaves – 1 cup chopped

Green chilli – 1 chopped

Capsicum – 1/2 chopped

Salt to taste

Spring onion – 1 chopped

Oil – 1 tablespoon

Onion – 1 chopped

Ginger paste – 1/2 teaspoon

Garlic paste – 1/2 teaspoon

Cumin powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Garam masala powder – 1/4 teaspoon optional

juice of 1/2 lemon

Method

Heat ghee or clarified butter in a pressure cooker. Add cumin seeds, bay leaf, cardamom, cinnamon and cloves. Let the cumin seeds crackle. Then add rice. Stir gently.

Add salt and sugar. Mix well and add water. Close the lid. Switch off the flame after 1 whistle. Let the pressure cooker cool down.
Fluff the rice gently.

Divide the rice in 3 equal portion.
Grind carrot and tomato. You can use little water to make smooth paste.

Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a nonstick pan. Add chopped onion. Fry till its starts to change colour. Add ginger and garlic paste. Saute till the raw smell goes away.

Now add the carrot tomato paste. Saute and add salt, cumin powder, garam masala powder and kashmiri red chilli powder.
Saute till the mixture dried up completely.
Now add the rice. Mix gently and keep aside.

Grind coriander leaves, capsicum, spring onion and green chilli.

Heat 1 tablespoon oil again. Add chopped onion. Fry till its starts to change it’s colour. Add ginger and garlic paste. Saute till the raw smell goes away.

Add the coriander, capsicum, spring onion and green chilli paste.
Mix well. Add salt cumin powder and garam masala powder.

Saute till the mixture dried up. Add lemon juice and rice. Mix gently and keep aside.

Now you have 3 coloured rice. White, orange and green.
Discard the bay leaf.

Arrange the three coloured rice on a plate. You can arrange them in your desired design. Or arrange them in a glass bowl in three layers.

Garnish with onion piece, lemon slice and coriander leaves.
Serve hot.

Note – If you don’t like coriander leaves, you can use mint leaves or green peas too. Use your favourite flavour and enjoy.

Spicy Egg Or Masala Egg

A spicy egg curry. Very easy recipe and taste is finger licking.

Its very similar to shakshuka. Shakshuka is a traditional Turkish dish. Basic recipe consisting crushed tomatoes, peppers, garlic, salt, paprika, olive oil and poached eggs.

But I made it in Indian style. Little more spicy.

Recipe

Eggs – 4

Onions – 2-3

Garlic – 3-4 pod. You can add more if you like the garlicky taste

Ginger – 1 inch piece

Tomatoes – 2 large

Green chilli – 1-2 or as per your spice tolerance

Salt to taste

Coriander powder – 1 tsp

Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp

Cumin powder – 3/4 tsp

Kashmiri red chilli powder – 1 tbsp.

Garam masala powder – 1/2 tsp

Cream or malai – 2-3 tbsp

Oil – 2 tbsp

Method

Make a paste of onions, garlic, green chilli and ginger.

Grind the tomatoes.

Heat oil in a broad pan. Add onion garlic ginger paste.

Fry well then add the tomato paste. Stir well.

Add all the spices and salt.

When the masala fried well and the oil leaves the sides add the cream or malai. ( beat well before adding) Stir continuously.

When dried up add little water. Let it boil.

Now break the eggs one by one and drop on the masala. Don’t overlap keep the eggs separate.

Just like you make half fry or poached egg.

Cover the pan cook on low flame for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes flip the eggs.

And again cook on low flame covered.

And your masala egg or spicy egg is ready. Isn’t a easy recipe? Easy and delicious.

Serve hot with steamed rice, naan, bread or paratha.

Egg Pulao Or Egg Biryani

Made this one pot meal for lunch.
You can call it egg biryani or egg pulao. You can omit egg to make a delicious veg biryani or pulao.

Very easy to make and delicious.

I wanted to add mint and green peas but I haven’t. Added potatoes and French beans. You can add cauliflower, carrot or any other vegetables of your choice.

Everyone loved this aromatic delicious rice.

You can serve this with any raita but I like it with fruit raita with mild sweetness. You can enjoy it without any side dish too

I used 1 tsp ghee or clarified butter with oil but you can cook with only ghee or half ghee half oil.

Recipe

Rice – 1 and 1/2 cup

Water – 2 cups and 1/4 cup. If you want soft rice like me then add 2 cups and 1/2 cups

Bay leaf – 1

Cardamom – 4-5

Cinnamon – 1 inch piece

Cloves – 3-4

Mace or javitri – 1 string

Jawa peppercorn/ Tailed pepper or kabab chini – 4 -5

Star anise – 1/2 piece and 1 for garnishing

Cumin powder – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Biryani masala – 2 tsp

Red chilli powder – 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp

Curd – 2 tbsp

Ginger garlic paste – 1 and 1/2 tsp

Onions – 2 chopped

Tomatoes – 2 chopped

Green chilli – 2 chopped

Coriander leaves chopped – handful
You can add mint too ( I didn’t)

Potatoes – 2 chopped in cubes

French beans – 150 gram, chopped in 1 inch piece

Eggs

Oil – 3 tbsp

Cashew nuts – 4 tsp

Clarified butter or ghee – 1 tsp

Curd – 2 tbsp

Method

Wash and soak the rice for 1/2 an hour. Drain and keep aside. Boil the eggs. Peel them. Finely chop one egg to mix in the spices.

Prick the remaining eggs with a knife or fork for 2-3 times. Marinate with little salt and biryani masala. Keep aside.
Lightly crush the cardamom cinnamon cloves, kabab chini and star anise ( don’t grind).
Heat oil in a pan. Fry the cashew nuts, potatoes and French beans one by one and keep aside.
Add clarified butter or ghee. Add bay leaf, mace and crushed whole spices. Then add the chopped onion. Fry and when onions start to changes colour.
Add ginger garlic paste. Saute well. When raw smell goes away add chopped green chilli and chopped tomatoes.

Fry till the tomatoes get mushy. Add 1 finely chopped egg. Saute again and add salt and all the spices. Add well beaten curd.
Saute till the spices dried up. Add the fried vegetables and chopped coriander leaves. Add mint if you want. Mix and add rice. Fluff gently. Add water, eggs and fried cashew nuts.

Pressure cook for one whistle.
Its ready. Garnish with fried cashew nuts and star anise.
You can garnish with fried onion slices too.
Serve hot.