Sprouts Fried Rice, makes a quick one pot meal, not much of chopping like the other fried rice recipes…easy to cook good to eat what more do you need?! I saw this recipe from a cookbook and have tried it once a year back but I as not pleased with the taste, guess I flopped it so was hesitant to try again.But now after trying quite a handful of fried rice recipes I was confident enough so tried this again now and this time it came out absolutely yummy that even the little one loved it.
Serve it along with gobi manchurian or baby corn manchurian.
Check out mushroom fried rice, egg fried rice and veg fried rice recipes for more variations.
Sprouts Fried Rice Recipe – Ingredients
Preparation Time : 20 mins | Cooking Time : 15 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Main | Recipe Cuisine: Chinese
Recipe Category: Main | Recipe Cuisine: Chinese
Basmati rice – 1 cup
Green gram Sprouts – 1/2 cup
Cabbage – 1/4 cup tightly packed
Spring onions (white part) – 2 tsp finely chopped
Spring onions (green part) – 1 tbsp finely chopped
Garlic – 1/2 tbsp finely chopped
Capsicum – 2 tbsp chopped finely lengthwise
Soya Sauce – 1/4 tsp(optional)
Pepper powder – 1 tsp
Olive Oil / Cooking Oil – 2 tbsp
Salt – to taste
To grind to a paste(For Green Chilli Paste):
Green Chillies – 2 small
Ginger – 1/4 inch piece
Method:
- Get your sprouts ready.Cook with little water till sprouts turns slightly soft,reserve cooked water,Set aside.Soak basmati rice for 15mins then pressure cook for 3 whistles in medium flame in the ratio 1(rice):1.5(water) cups.Spread it in a plate and fluff it up with a fork add a tsp of oil and let it cool down.
- Grind green chillies along with ginger to a coarse paste.In a pan heat oil – add garlic,green chilli paste and sring onion white part saute for a minute till it turns golden brown.
- Then add cabbage and capsicum, fry till the veggies shrink and raw smell leaves.Then add pepper powder soya sauce and stir well in medium high flame.Then add cooked sprouts along with reserved water and keep sauteing for 3mins in high flame till all the moisture is gone.
- Then add spring onions green part and mix well.Add required salt, then cooked rice and mix well.Garnish with remaining spring onions.Switch it off.
Serve hot with your choice of side dish or any manchurian.
My Notes:
- I reduced all the veggies as I wanted the sprouts flavour more.But don’t skip spring onions as it gives a good amount of chinese flavour to the fried rice.
- You can add 2 tbsp onion while sauteing the veggies.
- I used little water only to cook sprouts and used the remaining water while adding sprouts.
- Use freshly ground pepper for a great flavour.
- Dont overcook sprouts, it should be crunchy enough to bite.
- Sauteing the veggies in high flame gives a nice smoky flavour and also retains its crunchiness without the raw smell.
- I soaked basmati rice for 15 mins then pressure cooked for 1:1.5 ratio(rice:water) for 3 whistles in medium low flame.
- I dont use ajino motto, but if you prefer you can add a pinch of it at the final stage.
- Make sure to fluff the rice and spread it with little olive oil to make the grains separate.Allow it to rest atleast for 30mins.
Veena Theagarajan says
May 13, 2014 at 11:32 amhealthy rice.. so tasty and simple too
traditionallymodernfood says
May 13, 2014 at 1:51 pmHealthy rice!!
Raks anand says
May 13, 2014 at 2:02 pmLovely pictures. I too love it a lot.
santhi says
May 13, 2014 at 4:20 pmHi what brand basmathi rice do you use?
SHARMILEE J says
May 13, 2014 at 5:23 pmI use India Gate
Hamaree Rasoi says
May 13, 2014 at 5:32 pmHealthy, tasty and Colorful looking fried rice. Wonderfully prepared.
Deepa
Farin Ahmed says
May 13, 2014 at 9:46 pmSuper sprouts rice dear.. Love the pic
Geetha says
May 14, 2014 at 5:36 pmI have tried your veg fried rice recipe and its excellent. I will sure try this 🙂 Nice clicks.
Durga Karthik. says
May 15, 2014 at 5:24 amWow excellent.
poorani palanisamy says
May 16, 2014 at 6:50 amgreat.lovely pic………
Padma says
July 18, 2018 at 6:29 amHow to cook sprouts..can we steam for 10 min..
Sharmilee J says
July 21, 2018 at 8:52 amYes you can steam or pressure cook it too