
Chicken Fried Rice with Chicken Manchurian
Fried Rice/Chicken fried Rice
Fried Rice/Chicken fried Rice
A quintessential comfort food~ a bowl of steaming white rice cooked to just the right consistency, filled with bits of meat and eggs. Fried rice is one of the world's most popular rice dishes and the beauty of fried rice is that it is very adaptable, each country adapting its own version. Similar type of Fried Rice are : Taiwanese-style Fried Rice - an easy to make recipe with canned tuna, Nasi Goreng – Fried rice Indonesian-style, with shrimp paste, Japanese Fried Rice, Thai Pineapple Fried Rice - traditionally this popular Thai dish is served in a pineapple boat, Pulav - this Southern Indian dish combines cooked rice with Indian spices and fresh vegetables and Peruvian Fried Rice- is a fusion dish of Chinese and Peruvian.
Indian style fried rice has evolved through many recipes and different combinations are followed. The use of ginger garlic paste makes it predominantly Indianised Chinese. My recipe for the Indo Chinese Chicken Fried Rice is a simple one with very few ingredients with flavors from the ginger,garlic, green chillies and very little light soy sauce (Tip: I often add light soy sauce to give the rice a flavor and does not give the dark color to the rice).
The main key to making fried rice is using rice. Basmati rice, which comes out fluffier and is less sticky than other types of rice, is perfect for the Indian version of Fried rice dishes. The egg is scrambled separately and added to the rice in the final stages of cooking. One of the secrets of fried rice is that the ingredients are cooked separately - helping them maintain their distinct flavors - and then combined in the final stages of cooking.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups Basmati rice
- 3 tablespoon finely chopped green onions-the white part
- 3 tablespoon finely chopped green onions- the green part
- 3 cups chicken breast cut into very small pieces
- 3 green chillies
- 3 teaspoon light soy sauce
- 3 eggs
- 3 tablespoon oil
- 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon white pepper powder
- salt to taste
- finely chopped cilantro
- Cook the Basmati Rice until 3/4th done and cool.
- Scramble the eggs with little salt and white pepper powder. Keep aside.
- Grind the ginger garlic with the green chillies. Set aside.
- In a pan or wok, heat the oil and add the white part of the green onions . Saute well and add the ginger garlic, green chilli paste.
- Then add the chicken and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Saute until the chicken is cooked. When cooked add the soy sauce and finally the vinegar and the green onions.
- Add to the rice with the scrambled eggs, salt and cilantro. Mix well and serve.
The rice look so wonderfully separated. yes we do love our indo chinese.. don't much like the American chinese here. give this with a bowl of veg manchurian, or chili chicken!
ReplyDeleteLooks so yummy! Loved the fluffy look of the rice grains!
ReplyDeleteWow!!
ReplyDeleteChicken fried rice looks yummy!!
one of my favs!!
Looks lovely! What a beautiful snap! Sounds deliciouso!
ReplyDeletehey C,
ReplyDeleteThis looks like an unbeatable dish taste wise :) the rice looks so fluffy, I love it that way!
Hey c..the ingredient#11 needs correction u forgot to add pepper :)
Happy week ahead!!
TC
What a gorgeous click!!! rice looks soo good, seperated! love it
ReplyDeleteThank you Suparna, I made the corrections.
ReplyDeleteWow love the picture! I love Chinese food and I love Indian food and indo chinese food is great!
ReplyDeleteyummy & tempting ..... the picture looks so wonderful ........ nice presentation......
ReplyDeleteyummy dish. I guess the fortune cookie would read "Prepare yourself for a wonderful feast!"
ReplyDeleteLooks so nice,excellent click.Why is that ur blog doesn't opens sometimes :(
ReplyDeleteOh wow...completely drool worthy.....awesome presentation...feel like digging into right now.....
ReplyDeleteEvery grain of rice looks perfect! Delicious!
ReplyDeleteThat rice sounds so tasty, looks perfect!
ReplyDeletethis recipe made my stomach growl!!! amazing. will need to make this with some stir fry :)
ReplyDeletePicture has come out so good esp love the fortune cookie beside the red bowl.....first time here u have
ReplyDeletea very nice blog
Excellent picture! Guess this pic will be added among your best pics :) Kudos to you and your camera!
ReplyDeletehi
ReplyDeleteIts looks delicious...Nice recipe yarr..If u don't mind pls share the details of the basmati rice(which brand) you used for prpearing this fried rice
anyway thanks for the recipe .
Regards
Pranith
Pranith,
ReplyDeleteI have used the Dawaat Basmati rice which was available at Costco in this recipe. They do not carry that brand any more and the one available now is also good.
Your presentation is so cute. I love that little fortune cookie with the bowl of fried rice there. :-)
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