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Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe-Indian-Chinese Veg Fried Rice Recipe

February 28, 2020 19 Comments

I can’t believe I haven’t shared this Vegetable Fried Rice recipe yet. Amma makes the best vegetable fried rice. In fact, in my opinion, she makes the best Indo-Chinese food. She cooks it effortlessly and fried rice is often made when she’s lazy or doesn’t want to cook anything elaborate. The good thing about her vegetable fried rice is that it has all the vegetables and lots of flavour so you don’t really need a side dish for it. We usually have it with a light salad or an onion-tomato raita. So let’s check out how to make Vegetable Fried Rice using her recipe.

Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe-Indian-Chinese Veg Fried Rice Recipe

Oh wait, before I get into the recipe, an important thing. I waited to go back and share amma’s exact  recipe with you because there’s an essential ingredient that makes it truly like restaurant-style Vegetable Fried Rice. The flavour and aroma is unmatchable and you have to use this if you want your fried rice to shine. Ok, I’ll tell you already. It’s celery! Spring onions are important too but the most important ingredient to give flavour to fried rice is ***drumrolls*** celery.

Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe-Indian-Chinese Veg Fried Rice Recipe
Chinese Celery

In Singapore we gets two kinds of celery – one is the Chinese celery which is leaner and smaller and the other is the American celery which has thick stalks, usually used to snack on or make smoothies with. In India I have mostly seen the Chinese celery since that’s what we use to make vegetable fried rice but if you live in a place where you get both, choose the smaller kind for the best flavour.

Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe-Indian-Chinese Veg Fried Rice Recipe

Generally, one-day-old rice works best for making fried rice since the grains are drier and stay separate, easy for you to toss with the vegetables and sauces. However, here’s how to make rice for fried rice so you don’t have to use old rice, necessarily.

Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe (Indian Chinese Recipe)

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves 4
Recipe source: Amma

Ingredients for Fried Rice:
4 cups of cooked rice (here’s how to cook rice for fried rice)
2 cups of mixed vegetables, chopped fine (use carrots, French beans, cabbage, capsicum)
1 small bunch of celery stalks, chopped fine (discard the leaves)
1 small bunch of spring onions, chopped fine
2 tsp of soya sauce
1 tsp of green chilli sauce (this is my favourite brand)
2 tsp of tomato sauce or ketchup
1 tbsp of freshly minced ginger + garlic
2 onions, sliced
1 tsp of freshly cracked black pepper
1-2 tbsp of oil

How to make Vegetable Fried Rice:

1. Heat oil and add the onions. Let them fry on medium heat until light golden brown, don’t let them brown too much. Then, add the ginger + garlic and saute for another 2 mins.

Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe-Indian-Chinese Veg Fried Rice Recipe

2. Add the finely chopped vegetables and celery and mix well. Cook for 2-3 mins until they wilt just a bit. Then add the soya sauce, tomato sauce, and green chilli sauce. Fry on high heat until the sauces bubble and reduce flame to medium-high, stirring constantly. Continue to stir-fry for another 2-3 mins. The vegetables should be cooked yet crunchy and not mushy or soft.

Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe-Indian-Chinese Veg Fried Rice Recipe

3. Add the cooked rice and stir well to combine. Switch off flame, check for salt and add more if required. Finally add the pepper powder and spring onions (we used coriander leaves that day since we couldn’t find spring onions in the market). Stir well and pat down and keep partially covered for the flavours to combine.

Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe-Indian-Chinese Veg Fried Rice Recipe

That’s it. Delicious Indo-Chinese Vegetable Fried Rice is ready.

Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe-Indian-Chinese Veg Fried Rice Recipe

Here are some great side dish recipe ideas for Vegetable Fried Rice you may like:

– Gobi Manchurian
– Chilli Soya Chunks
– Chilli Paneer
– Schezwan Vegetables
– Chilli Chicken

Notes:

– Basmati tastes best for vegetable fried rice; we have used seeraga samba here

– Chop the vegetables fine otherwise the stir-frying won’t cook them through and they will taste raw

– We used dark soya sauce here which is the reason for the darker colour of the vegetable fried rice. If you use the regular kind, your fried rice will be lighter in colour

– Be careful when adding salt since the sauces we add all have salt in it already

– If you want to make Egg Fried Rice, add 2-3 scrambled eggs to this rice towards the end and you have easy Egg Fried Rice ready!

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  1. vaishnavi panchal

    July 10, 2016 at 8:26 pm

    I love all sorts of fried rice and I made this for my friends yesterday and they all loved it very much!

    Reply
  2. Sowmya D.S.L

    February 13, 2013 at 9:30 pm

    Hey nags.. i tried this fried rice… It jus came out so so awesome.. adding celery jus gave fresh flavor to the rice.. 🙂

    Reply
  3. Sandhya Ramakrishnan

    January 24, 2013 at 3:02 am

    I have never tries cooking with Chinese celery and the irony is I always shop in a Chinese store for fresh produce. I will take a look tomorrow when I go shopping. Thanks for a beautiful recipe!

    Reply
  4. tejas

    January 17, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    Is celery same as our coriander leaves ( Kotthamalli )?

    Reply
    • Nagalakshmi V

      January 17, 2013 at 2:54 pm

      no celery and coriander leaves are not the same. i have included a picture of celery above, take a look.

      Reply
  5. Archana

    January 16, 2013 at 8:11 am

    Love this fries rice. Now I know what celery does in fried rice. I used both th eleaves and the stalks and boy was it overpowering. I have been banned from getting "that stuff" at home. Thanks will try again. 🙂

    Reply
  6. kankana

    January 16, 2013 at 1:28 am

    aaah celery! I really didn't think so. Love how fluffy the fried rice look!

    Reply
  7. Charul @ Tadka Masala

    January 16, 2013 at 3:47 am

    yumm! I love rice and with vegetables it kinds of brings the guilt of eating rice down! 😛

    Reply
  8. M D

    January 15, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    We make a similar fried rice and your's looks amazing! That's delicious for sure!

    Reply
  9. Lavanya

    January 15, 2013 at 11:16 am

    One question, how many onions do you use for the 4 cups rice? The pic shows a lot of onions being fried. Thanks

    Reply
    • Nagalakshmi V

      January 15, 2013 at 2:12 pm

      hello lavanya. i have mentioned the number of onions in the ingredients list. you need 2 onions for 4 cups rice. that's my estimate anyway, it's really up to you.

      Reply
  10. WeR SAHM

    January 15, 2013 at 6:06 am

    that is a wonderful appealing meal….

    Reply
  11. Manju

    January 14, 2013 at 3:46 pm

    Thanks for all the useful tips Nags. The Fried Rice definitey looks really colorful and bet it is delicious too!

    Regards,
    manju
    http://manjuseatingdelights.blogspot.com/

    Reply
  12. Nutan gupta

    January 14, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    looks delicious

    Reply
  13. divya

    January 14, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    Great & gorgeous looking fried rice..

    Reply
  14. Jeyashrisuresh

    January 14, 2013 at 1:45 pm

    Never know that celery gives such a wonderful flavor to the fried rice. Will give it a try soon

    Reply
  15. dassana

    January 14, 2013 at 1:24 pm

    adding celery makes a lot of difference in indo chinese recipes. since its difficult to get it now where i live, i have finally got some celery plants 🙂

    Reply
  16. APARNARAJESHKUMAR

    January 14, 2013 at 10:17 am

    Your Rice is amazingly cooked 🙂 and the photography is gr8

    Reply
  17. Sireesha Puppala

    January 14, 2013 at 7:24 am

    Love this early in the morning:)

    Reply

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