Schezwan Capsicum Fried Rice

An awesome recipe to order in restaurants now can be created in your own kitchen!! I wonder which restaurant sells this though....

 

Schezwan Capsicum Fried Rice

Ingredients (serves for 2-3 persons)

Capsicum - 3 (very small size) different colours

Basmati rice - 1 cup, 200 grams, of rice

Big onion - 1 (medium size)

Kashmiri chilli - 2

Red chili - 2

Frozen Green peas - 3 handful

Frozen Sweet corn - 3 handful

Tomato sauce - 2 tsp

Soya sauce - 2 tsp

Pepper powder - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

For the seasoning

Butter - 2 tsp
Oil - 3 tsp
Sombu (Aniseed) broken - 1/2 tsp

Preparation

Chop the onion and capsicums in long size pattern.

Make the Szechwan sauce:

Method - Soak the Kashmiri chilies and Ordinary Red chilies in little hot water for 5 minutes, grind the same and make paste without making it watery.

Method

In a Frying pan add 2 tsp of butter and fry Sombu. Add the remaining oil and fry the onion pieces with little salt to golden brown.

Add the half boiled fresh green peas, sweet corn and fry for a minute.

Add the chopped Capsicum of all colors available and small amount of salt.

On fried vegetables add the Szechwan sauce, Tomato sauce, Soya sauce and Pepper powder and sauté until the vegetables become soft.

Now add the cooked rice and salt to taste in the mixture, mix well in high flame for a while and switch off the flame. Now the dish is ready to serve.

Tips

For boiling fresh green peas, sweet corn (available in frozen form) it is enough to keep the peas and sweet corn with some little water in a small flat bowl on the pressure cooker while cooking the rice.

Add little salt to rice before mixing the rice with the main dish so that the salt will spread evenly in the rice/dish.

Take care while sprinkling the salt because it is used in various stages. If the dish becomes salty, the taste will not be good.

Surakaai (Bottle Gourd) Chapatti

Lauki or bottle gourd is one of those vegetables that has been forgotten from the Indian cuisine. An easy recipe to start off with, chapattis are common in every house because they are easy to make, why not give the usual chapatti some flavor??

Surakaai (Bottle Gourd) Chapatti

Ingredients (for serving 2 to 3 members)

Wheat flour - 3 cups

Suraikai (Bottle Gourd) - 1 (small size)     

Ginger - 1 inch

Garlic pods - 2 numbers (medium size)

Green chilli - 2 or 3 numbers as per taste

Omam (Carom seeds) - 1 pinch

Cooking oil - 1tsp

Salt to taste

Preparation

Make paste of green chilies, ginger and garlic.

Remove the outer thick cover of the Suraikai (Bottle Gourd) and the remove the seeds if they are not soft. Grate the vegetable in a grater.

Method

In a bowl mix wheat flour, chilies, ginger and garlic paste, hand squeezed Omam, cooking oil, salt and ¾^th portion of the grated bottle gourd, and don’t add any water. Make dough as done for making chapattis. If necessary use the remaining ¼^th of of grated bottle gourd to avoid the dough becoming watery. Make chapattis immediately without keeping the dough for long time in the mixing bowl and serve with tomato sauce.

Tips

The grated Suraikai will become dark if it is kept for long time. To avoid this prepare other items in the bowl and grate the Suraikai before making dough.

Health Tips

Suraikai has iron and other minerals.

Omam is good for digestion.