Chicken/Turkey Fried Rice

(from Nandini’s recipe box)

Fried rice is a rice recipe that originated in china but its indo chinese version has become one of the favorites all indians. Rice sauteed with veggies and soy sauce makes a wonderful delicacy. It can be had just by itself without any sidedish. The following is the recipe for chicken fried rice. The recipe can be modified to get turkey fried rice, mutton fried rice, pork fried rice, beef fried rice or even shrimp fried rice using the appropiate meat. The meatless versions are egg fried rice and vegetable fried rice. For egg fried rice, just skip the meat and increase the number of eggs by 6. For vegetable fried rice, just skip the eggs and meat.

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes
Serves 4 people

Categories: Rice recipies

Ingredients

  • Basmati Rice - 2 cups
  • Carrot - 1
  • Celery sticks - 2
  • (You can also use other vegetables like Capsicum, Cabbage, snap peas, green beans, corn, peas, asparagus etc etc.)
  • Egg scrambled - 2
  • Ground Pepper- 2 tblsp
  • Soy sauce - as needed
  • Boneless skinless chicken- as needed (canned chicken breast can be used)
  • Salt - to taste
  • Chicken boulion cubes(optional)
  • Ginger Garlic paste - 2 tsp
  • scallions(green onion) - 1 bunch

Directions

  1. Tips

  2. You can also add other vegetables like red cabbage, white caggage, leeks, fennel, green peas, corn etc. Just finely chop them like thin match sticks or grate them.

  3. Method

  4. Cook the rice seperately(1 cup rice : 1.5 cup water ratio)

  5. Chop the carrot and celery sticks using blender or by hand .

  6. If canned chicken is used drain the excess water and cook in the microwave for 2minutes and shred it.If using the fresh chicken blanch it and shred it.

  7. In a wok add little butter add ginger garlic paste and fry the shredded chicken

  8. Remove the chicken from wok now add little more butter fry the chopped carrot with salt and pepper.

  9. After removing the carrot, fry the chopped celery with butter ,salt and pepper.

  10. Similarly fry the green onions with little butter and keep aside.

  11. Now in the same wok fry the rice ,little soy sauce and add the fried chicken, scrambled egg, carrot, celery and green onions and fry all together(add salt and pepper as needed).

  12. Do step 8 in small batches so that all the ingredients will blend together.

  13. Tips

  14. You can add ΒΌ tsp of ajinomoto with the fried rice for extra flavour

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