Chicken Fried Rice

Chicken fried rice was our new year special dish. It came out too good…...

ingredients:

Chicken(boneless)	250 gm
Basmathi rice	3 cup
Egg	3
Carrot(finely chopped)	2(medium)
Cabbage(finely chopped)	1/4(small)
Green peas(english peas)	50 gm
Big onion(chopped to small slices)	1(medium)
Bell pepper(chopped)	1/2
Ginger(crushed)	2 inch piece
Garlic(crushed)	6 to 8 cloves
Pepper powder	4 +1 tspoon
Vinegar	1 tbl spoon
Chilly pepper sauce	2 tspoon
Soya sauce	2+2 tspoon
Lime juice	2 tspoon
Oil	1 tbl spoon
Salt	to taste

Preparation:

(1) Wash and clean chicken. Cut into small pieces. Add pepper powder, salt and lime juice. Mix well. Keep it aside for marination about half an hour.

Wash rice and boil it in a cooker. Drain the water completely. Once the water is drained out spread cooked rice on a paper so that rice will not stick each other. Keep it aside.

Mean while chop onion, carrot, cabbage, ginger, garlic and bell pepper. Keep it aside.

(2) Once the chicken is marinated heat a vessel to cook chicken. Add chicken pieces along with half cup of water. Close the vessel with a lid till it is cooked(around 10 to 15 mints). Drain the water completely. Keep it aside. Mean while beat egg in a bowl by adding salt and pepper powder. Saute it in a heated pan and make a quick egg bhurji. Keep it aside.

(3) Now heat oil in  a large vessel. Add ginger and garlic. Saute till the raw smell goes off. Now add onion slices. Saute till the color changes to light brown. Now add chopped carrot. Reduce the flame to low. Saute for around 10 minutes.

(4) To this add green peas and cabbage. Saute for 5 minutes.

(5) Now add little salt and soya sauce. Mix well. To this add cooked chicken. Mix well

(6) Add chilly pepper sauce to it and again mix well. Now add cooked rice followed by vinegar and soya sauce. Mix well. Continue stirring in between for about 5 to 7minutes. Switch off the flame. Your chicken fried rice is now ready.

(7) Close the vessel with a lid for 5 minutes before serving so that the flavor sets well. Garnish with bell pepper.