Vegetable fried rice recipe with step by step photos– Tasty and flavorful vegetable fried rice with sauces just like Indo chinese restaurants. With left over veggies and chopped veggies this vegetable fried rice gets ready in 15 minutes flat!

Veg fried rice is a most sought after Indian street food that also find its pride position in most restaurants.

Recently one of my reader asked me to share an easy recipe for restaurant style veg fried rice. I saw this easy restaurant style vegetable fried rice recipe in a Tv show. This was done by chef Venkatesh Bhat’s samyal samayal .

He showed 4 delicious Indo chinese recipes in that episode and I loved them all. I have already tried 2 recipes,one is this restaurant style vegetable fried recipe and the other in is chilli baby corn recipe. So many useful pointers were given along with the recipe and I have tried to mention all those here,so please be sure to check the notes section.

This vegetable fried rice recipe is a very methodical one with attention given to all small details. While I have used sauces and vinegar unlike my many recipes I have avoided ajinomoto. It is much recommended to use sesame oil in any indo chinese recipe especially to get the authentic taste and flavor. If you do not have sesame oil try using olive oil. Also refined oil or sunflower oil does not work well with these fusion recipes.

Next point for perfect vegetable fried rice is to use thoroughly used cooked and cooled rice. Hot and fresh rice is not very good for this veg fried rice recipe. You can even refrigerate the cooked rice for few hours, hot rice just turns mushy and spoils the whole recipe. Selection of veggies also play an important role here,use freshest tender veggies as we are going to cook these veggies for a very short time in high flame.

You can use veggies like Chinese cabbage,celery etc if you can source else just use cabbage,beans,carrot and capsicum. Cabbage is a must as it adds a nice crunch and taste. Here I have used purple cabbage just for color.

Equal amounts of rice and mixed veggies is the thumb rule, that is if you use 1 cup of cooked rice, use 1 cup of very finely chopped mixed veggies. You can serve this restaurant style vegetable fried rice with veg machurian gravy, babycorn manchurian,chilli paneer gravy,gobi manchurian etc or just a dash of chilli vinegar if you are in short of time. If you are looking for a simple yet delicious veg fried rice recipe,do check my easy veg fried rice with just 3 ingredients apart from veggies and rice.

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Step by step vegetable fried riced recipe:

1. Soak basmati rice in water for good 30 minutes.Rinse and pressure cook with 2 cups water for 1 cup rice until the rice is cooked (2-3 whistles). Once the pressure is released,fluff the rice very gently with a fork add 4-6 drops of oil,mix gently and allow it to cool thoroughly. It is very important to cool the rice thoroughly for good vegetable fried rice.

2. In the meanwhile can can do the prep work for veggies. Select fresh tender veggies for this veg fried rice recipe. peel and chop the carrots into thin sticks. Slice the baby corns into rounds or sticks. Chop the purple cabbage,capsicum and fresh beans very finely. Chop the spring onion greens and whites separately.

3. In a wok or heavy bottomed kadai heat 3 tablespoons sesame oil or olive oil. Saute the crushed ginger garlic for 2-3 minutes. Add the slit green chilies and saute for a minute or 2. Now add the spring onion whites and saute for 3-4 minutes in high flame.

4. Add all the veggies and saute for 3-4 minutes in high flame. Add soy sauce,chilli sauce,pepper powder,salt,sugar and mix well. Saute for few more minutes.

5. Add the cooled rice and toss well. Add vinegar and mix well.

6. Serve vegetable fried rice immediately garnished with spring onion greens.

vegetable fried rice recipe card below: