Chinese fried rice

4 persons

Ingredients:
finely chopped beans, carrot, capsicum, baby corn, Cabbage  2-3 cups
spring onions with green leaves , finely chopped 2-3
ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
Chilli oil 1 -2 tbsp
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
vinegar 1 tsp
salt to taste
Rice 2 cups

Method:
Cook the rice (1cup rice : 2 cups water ) with oil, salt and set aside.
In a pan add 2 tb sp of chilli oil and add the finely chopped spring onions bulbs to it. Saute for 2 minutes.
Add the ginger garlic paste to it.
Add the vegetables and cook it till tender.
Add the soya sauce, vinegar and salt to it.
Add the cooked rice to it and mix well. Cook it for 4-5 minutes.
Garnish with spring onion greens and serve hot.
Note: For chilli oil please refer to chilli garlic noodles in the earlier blog.
For rice, Jasmine rice is preferred.

Chinese Stir fried vegetable

4 persons:

Ingredients:
Sesame oil 1 tb sp
ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
dry red chilli 2-3
cabbage 1 cup
carrot chopped 1 cup
capsicum chopped 1 cup
Beans 1 cup
mushroom 1/2 cup
cauliflower florets or brocolli florets 1/2 cup
Onion  sliced 1
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Tomato sauce 2 tbsp
Garlic chilli sauce 1 tsp
salt to taste
corn starch 1 tsp
pepper powder 1 tsp

Method:
Corn starch mix with 2 - 3 tbsp of water and keep aside.
Freshly coarsely ground the dried red chilli.
Take a big pan. Heat some oil. Add these red chilli powder to it.
Add sliced onions and saute for few minutes.
Add ginger garlic paste to it and saute  for a minute.
Add all the chopped vegetables to it and cook for some time.
Add salt,soya sauce, tomato sauce and chilli sauce to it.
For dry curry donot add water and cook till half done.
For gravy add water to it and when half cooked add corn starch to it and simmer for few minutes.
Garnish with freshly ground black pepper powder, spring onions and serve hot with steaming rice.

Chilli garlic noodles

Serves 4 persons

Ingredients:
Noodles 250g
Soya sauce 2 tbsp
Vinegar 1/2 tsp
1 cup of sliced carrots, spring onions, cabbage & french beans
 garlic 4  ground to paste
Salt to taste
3 tbslp chilli oil


for chilli oil
1/4 th cup oil (preferably sesame oil)
4 whole red chillies(cut into 4 pieces each)
2 tb sp chilli powder
1 tsp coarsely crushed peppercorns
1 tsp  finely chopped ginger
1 tsp finely chopped garlic
2 tbsp coarsely chopped spring onions


Method


Preparation of chilli oil


Combine all the ingredients except the oil in a bowl. Set aside.
Heat the oil in a pan.  When it starts to smoke, remove the pan from the heat and add all the ingredients set aside in  a bowl.
Cover and set aside for about 4 hours.
Strain into a clean dry bowl.
Store in a bottle.
Can be stored for very long time ( 2 months)


Chilli garlic noodles
Cook the noodles in boiling water with a spoon of oil and salt.
When cooked, drain the excess water and wash the noodles with cold water and drain it.
Separate the noodles by applying oil to fingers.
Keep aside. Heat chillioil in a thick bottomed pan. When oil starts to fume, add ground garlic paste.
Once the paste is fried add cut spring onion, carrot, cabbage and french beans, sprinkle a pinch of salt and stir fry at high heat for about 4 mins.
Now add soya sauce, vinegar,salt and cooked noodles. Stir fry for 2-3 mins and serve hot.


Note: chilli garlic noodles can be prepared without vegetables when seved with vegetable curry sauces .