Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Quick vegetable rice

Today morning I got up late and what i see there is very less time for me to prepare proper lunch. Then I open my freeze where i can see few carrots and Palak. I planned to prepare rice with these vegetable quickly as i had only 15 min because my hubby had to leave to catch his office cab.
Luckily this quick and instant recipe has come out too good. my hubby and his colleagues complemented me :)
I used boiled rice to make it more healthy as boiled rice has less fat and sugar in it.

Serve - 2 Person
Preparation time - 5 Min.
Cooking time 10 Min.

Ingredients:
Rice - 1 Cup
Onion - 1 Medium size
Potato - 1 Medium Size
Carrot - 2 Medium size
Palak - 15-20 leaves
Tomato- 1 Medium size
Green Chilly - 1
Mustard Seed - 1\2 tea spoon
Jeera - 1\2 Half Tea spoon
turmeric - 1\2 tea spoon
RedChilly - 3\4 tea spoon
Coriander powder - 1\2 tea spoon
Garam Masala - 1 tea spoon
Salt - according to test
Oil - 1-2 spoon

Method :
1) Wash and rinse the rice very well.
2) Now pour 3 cups of water and put for boiling on the gas.
3) while rice get cooked cut the vegetable.
4) First cut the onion and green chilly. Put oil in kadai and when it is heated put rai, jeera seeds. When Jeera start becoming brown put chilly and onion in it.
5) While Onion is getting fry cut other vegetable length wise. Finely chopp spinach leaves.
6) When onion become transparent mix all the cut vegetable. Mix Haldi, Red chilly, coriander powder, garam masala and salt in it.
7) Let it cook for 3-4 min or till all the vegetable gets tender.
8) When Rice cooked 3\4th means it is not cooked fully still 1\4th need to cook, remove from heat and strain all the extra water from it. 9) Mix these rice with vegetable masala which we prepared. Cover it and let it cook for 2-3 min in low heat.
10) Serve hot with curd and any kind of chutny.

Variation : it can be tried with any kind of vegetable which you have in your freeze like cabbage, cauliflower, mushroom, capsicum etc..

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