Easy Fried Rice

This is something that I make whenever I am short on both time & ingredients – easy to make and doesn’t even take that much time to cook. For vegetarians, you can add your choice of veggies like bell peppers, corn, asparagus, and zucchini. And yes for egg lovers, you can add scrambled eggs with a pinch of pepper and salt. I have used chicken stock cubes in this recipe. You can also substitute it with salt or veg stock cube. This dish can be savoured by the diet conscious folks as I haven’t used either oil or butter in this. I had few leftover chicken breasts and ended up making a real simple chicken fried rice.

Ingredients

• 2 cups of basmati rice (soaked in water for 30 minutes)
• 3 cloves, 2 cardamom pods, 1 small cinnamon bark
• 1 ½ chicken stock cube
• 1 cup beans chopped into small pieces or diagonally cut
• ½ cup carrots finely chopped
• ¼ cup frozen peas thawed
• 4 cups of water
• 2 scrambled eggs (Optional)
• 1 ½ chicken breast cut in to small pieces and cooked in 1 tbsp. of oil (optional)

In a non-stick deep bottom pan, add water and chicken stock cubes. Add rice, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and veggies. Cover and cook for about 15-20 minutes till the rice is perfectly cooked.

Remove from heat and add cooked chicken and scrambles eggs if using.

Ta- da… Now how easy was that.. Simple yet tasty!!!!!!!