Tuesday, January 29, 2008

fried rice and chicken munchurian






You know what nutritionists say, they say that in the bowl or plate that you eat you should have at least 5 colors, to make the food apeal to the eye....fried rice is one of those foods, instantly apealing to the eyes!

Fried rice coupled with chicken munchurian is an ideal indo chinese food, though I miss the chinese restaurant I used to go , when I was in hyderabad..and especially the Basket noodles, I plan to make it someday,alas one day will come when I will try out that recipe, but seriously I love the crispy noodles, .nearly 8-9 mnths back when I was pregnant, I had cravings for chinese chopsouey,every now and then I used to bug my husband to take me to all the chinese restaurants, one day we were grocery shopping in Carrefour, my husband found a frozen chopsouey vegetables, he`also took the noodles, next day it was my day off in the kitchen, my husband cooked the chopsouey, but so much that I had to eat that the following night,next day for lunch and then for dinner, now nomore I crave for that:-D.

Lets get back to fried rice,.It is a comon recipe, but every person has their own version of it, so lets try it out!!
Fried rice::


Rice 3 cups, cooked(long grain rice would be good)
beans:250gm chopped
carrot : 1.5 chopped
springonions : 1/2 bunch chopped
eggs :2
chicken : 100 gms cut in cubes
soyasouce
ajinomoto
oil
salt
ginger garlic paste: 1/8th ts(I know we dont use in actual recipe,but i love the flavor of ginger garlic)

proceedure:



-->After cooking the rice, spread it on a tray so that the rice grains dont stick
-->mix the chopped vegetables (beans,carrot spring onion) in a saucepan, and boil in water for about 3 mins.
-->boil the boneless chicken cubes in about 1 cup water with salt, pepper and a pimch of ginger garlic paste.
-->in a bowl break the eggs, put a pinch of salt and a pinch of pepper and beat it well
-->In a wok heat oil put the,beaten egg,fry till it is scrambled,then put the boiled chicken, fry for 2 mins then, put the chopped vegetables,fry for 2 mins, put the ginger garlic paste,soya sauce,ajinomoto,salt, pepper, fry for around 2 mins then put the rice and fry till the vegetables and rice are properly mixed.

-->Ta Da your fried rice is ready









Chicken munchurian::


250 gms chicken breast pieces cut in strips
2 capsicum also cut in strips

1 onion sliced

5 flakes garlic chopped

4 green chillies slitted

3 tbsp tomato sauce

2tbsp hot sauce

1 tsp vinegar

1 tsp ginger garlic paste'

2 tbsp corn flour

1 egg

ajinomoto

soyasauce

oil

proceedure:

-->Mix `the chicken strips,soyasauce,ginger garlic paste,ajinomoto,salt, 1 tbsp hot sauce,vinegar....mix well and let ot marinate for about 1-2 hour.

-->make batter of 1 egg and corn flour,heat oil in sautepan, dip each chicken strip in the egg batter and soft fry each strip drain i on a paper towel and keep aside

-->now in a wok heat oil, put the sliced onion,fry till the onion is transparent, the put the chopped garlic and slitted green chillies, fry for 30 secs, then put the capsicum fry till it gets soft,then put salt, remaining 1 tbsp hot sauce, tomato sauce,,mix well .

-->Then put the soft fried chicken in the wok and mix till the masala is nicely coated on all the chicken pieces

--> Serve Hot with fried rice

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3 comments:

mummyjaan said...

mmmm...looks delicious! Fried rice is a usual in our house; guess we could try chicken manchurian too. Will be trying this recipe.

Thanks for coming by on my blog.

(The little one's first tooth erupted on Bakreid, though, a few weeks after I wrote that post.)

Anonymous said...

Your recipe of fried recipe is very easy to make, I remember when I used to make we used to take portion sof rice and vegetables and fry it with sauces, was tedious :(

I will try it soon InshAllah

syeda said...

thanx fatima for visiting my blog, do try it out!most of my cooking is easy,I seldom make dishes that are very tedious:)...I know I am very lazyyyyyyyyy