Sunday, June 28, 2015

Chicken Fried Rice

Chicken Fried rice that is super easy to make and delicious. Chicken fried rice is a popular dish at chinese restaurants, its indo chinese version has become one of the favorite of Indians. This is a complete meal recipe to make at home with leftovers such as cold rice, eggs, boneless chicken pieces and frozen or fresh vegetables. You can use beans, carrot, capsicum, white cabbage, red cabbage, green peas, corn, spring onions.
Following is the recipe for chicken fried rice. Meatless version is 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, skip the eggs and meat by increasing quantity and variety of vegetables.


Ingredients :

  • Basmati Rice - 1 cup
  • Boneless Chicken - 150 gms or 1/2 cup diced
  • Eggs - 2
  • Onion - 1
  • Beans - 6
  • Carrot - 1 small
  • Capsicum - 1/2 small
  • Garlic - 1 tbsp chopped
  • Soy Sauce - 1 tbsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper Powder as per spiciness
  • Oil - 3 tbsp
Method :
  • Step 1 : Wash and soak basmati rice for half an hour. In a vessel boil 2 cups of water. Add salt and drained rice. Cook till rice is 80% cooked. Strain and keep aside to cool down.

  • Step 2 : In a bowl break eggs and beat them. Add salt, pepper powder and mix well. Pour the mix on a tawa and scramble the eggs. Take it out on to a plate. ( You can even add eggs to the vegetables when it is cooked and scramble it.)

  • Step 3: Take diced chicken and season with salt and pepper. In a kadai heat 1 tbsp oil. Add diced chicken and saute it till chicken is cooked. Transfer it to a plate.


  • Step 4 : In the same kadai heat 2 tbsp oil. Add chopped garlic and saute till raw smell goes away. Add sliced onion or white sping onion and fry till translucent.

  • Add chopped beans and carrot and saute for 2 mins. Add sliced capsicum and fry for a minute. Vegetables should be cooked but still crunchy and not soft.

  • Add salt, pepper powder, soy sauce and saute for a minute.

  • Step 5 : Add scrambled eggs, cooked chicken, mix and saute for a minute for all the flavors to get combined.

  • Add cooked rice and mix everything well. If using add green spring onions now.
  • A pretty complete meal in itself is ready to be served.

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