About:

It is hot and spicy Indo-Chinese dish. Perfect with a sidedish like pepper babycorn. The vegetables are cooked to tender so it retains its crunchiness. It is tossed with different sauces to provide the multi cuisine taste

Serves: 2
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 35-40 minutes (including cooking time of rice)

Ingredients:

• Brown rice- 1 cup
• Slit green chilli- 3 num
• Chopped garlic- 1 tbsp
• Thinly sliced/chopped onion- 1 num
• Thinly sliced/chopped carrots- 1 num
• Thinly sliced/chopped french beans/snow peas- 1/2 cup
• Thinly sliced/ chopped cabbage- 1/2 cup
• Thinly sliced/chopped capsicum- 1 num
• Shredded spring onion greens- 1/2 cup+ a handful for garnishing
• Shredded spring onion white- 1/2 cup
• Soya sauce- 1 tbsp
• Chilli sauce- 1 tbsp
• Schezwan sauce- 2 tbsp (as per spice requirement)
• Tomato sauce- 1 tbsp
• Vinegar- 2 tsp
• Salt- as required
• Sesame oil/ any oil- 1 tbsp

Method:

Preparing rice:

• Wash and soak brown rice for 30 minutes to 1 hour. (This helps the rice to cook faster).
• Boil enough water in the large pot and cook the rice until fluffy (about-18-20 minutes)
• Once cooked, spread the rice on a plate; add 1-2 tsp of oil mix and let the rice cool then separate each grain with a help of fork.

Stir fry vegetables:

• Heat oil in the wok to smoking hot and then reduce the heat to medium high, add garlic, green chillies and saute for few seconds.
• Immediately add onions, spring onion white saute for a minute.
• Then add carrots, beans, capsicum and saute for a minute or two. (vegetables should be crunchy, make sure not to overcook them)
• Add in cabbage,spring onion greens, schezwan sauce, chilli sauce, tomato sauce, soya sauce, vinegar and give it a good toss. Make sure the veggies are coated evenly with sauce.
• Now add the cooked rice and mix them well so that each grain is coated well with sauce. Stir fry for 3-4 minutes till each grain is heated through.
• Finally turn off the heat and toss in the shredded spring onion greens

Enjoy this with Pepper babycorn:

Schezwan sauce:

Note:

• You can make this with white rice as well.
• Make sure not to overcook the vegetables as it has to retain the crunchiness and colour.
• Schezwan fried rice really spicy but you can make it spicy or mild as per your preference