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Burnt Garlic Fried rice 4

Burnt Garlic fried rice and my love for fried rice

This is an easy and quick recipe of fried rice. When you run out of ideas for dinner, this is the easiest thing that can be done and is extremely delicious and fulfilling.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Non Vegetarian
Cuisine Chinese
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • 2 1/2 tbsp chopped garlic
  • 1 bunch spring onions the whites and the greens chopped separately
  • 1/2 cup chopped carrots
  • 1/2 cup chopped french beans
  • 2 cups cooked basmati rice Read notes
  • 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tsp dark soy sauce
  • 1 tsp rice wine vinegar Read notes
  • 1/4 tsp White Vinegar
  • 3 tbsp any white oil
  • salt as required
  • 2 Eggs

Instructions
 

  • In a wok, heat a tbsp of oil. Now break 2 eggs, some salt and scramble the eggs. Once completely fried, keep the scrambled eggs aside.
  • In the same wok, add 2 more tbsp of oil. When the oil is relatively hot, add the chopped garlics. Keep the heat at medium and slowly brown the garlics till they are just burnt.
  • As soon as the garlics are burnt, add the spring onion whites. Turn the heat to high and toss the spring onions.
  • Add the carrots and beans and continue tossing the vegetables till they become a bit soft.
  • Add the rice. Then drizzle the soy and the vinegars. Add the black pepper. Now, very genlty, mix the rice with the vegetables. Lower the heat while doing this.
  • Once everything is mixed, add salt if required and then again increase the heat.
  • Add the scrambled eggs. Toss everything around so that the flavours bind together.
  • Finally, turn off the heat and add garnish with spring onions.
  • While serving, top each plate with a fried egg. It is not only a visual treat but some even like to mix the yolk with the rice and eat. Ofcourse this is completely optional.

Notes

  1. This recipe is great with left over rice which has been there in the fridge. Incase you are making it with freshly cooked rice, then make sure to not overcook the rice or make it soft. The grains of the rice should not stick to each other.
  2. In case you do not have rice wine vinegar, you can substitute with white vinegar.
  3. You can tweak the recipe with the quantities of soy sauce and vinegar as per your taste.
  4. You can add cauliflower, capsicum and celery if you want to.