Method
- Wash and cut vegetables and keep them in a plate.
- Boil each vegetable separately.
- Cauliflower has to be soaked in hot water, then remove the water and boil it again with fresh water so that insects if any would die.
- Grind ginger and garlic and make it to a paste.
- Grind coconut and green chillies and make it to a paste. Cut onions and keep it aside.
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add dry spicy items, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, then add ginger garlic paste, fry onion, then add all vegetables followed by turmeric, salt and mint leaves.
- Mix all the contents, finally add coconut paste, add rice to it mix it well.
- Finally add 1 and 1/2 cups of water for 1 cup of rice. Cook for 15 minutes.
- Hot and delicious vegetable fried rice is ready to be served.
- It can served with onion salad, potato chips or kuruma.
Note:
Rice requires only one and a half cup of water.
For variety rice we should use only little water.
Each vegetable has to be boiled separately as beans requires comparatively a large time than other vegetables.
Optional:
Bread roast can be added to this rice.
We can decorate with cashew nuts before serving.
A little ghee can be added if necessary before frying all the ingredients.
Ingredients can be added or removed according to individuals choice.
Courtesy: http://tamilveg.blogspot.com/