Hot Desi Garlic Fried Rice

Name: Hot Desi Garlic Fried Rice
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 2 people
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 tbsp oil; 1 pinch Hing; 1 tbsp cumin seeds; 2 pieces green chillies, minced (+/- 1 for spice tolerance); 1 piece dry red chilli, broken by hand (+/- 1 for spice tolerance); 5 cloves garlic, minced; 1 cup onions, moon-sliced (sliced and cut in half); 1 tbsp turmeric powder (Haldi); 1 tbsp black pepper powder; 1 tbsp kitchen king masala (you can find it ready or can make your own with a mix of coriander powder, garam masala and cumin powder 1:1:1); 1/4 lemon squeezed; 1/2 cup chopped cilantro (garnish); lemon slices (garnish); 1 cup Rice; 1/2 tsp turmeric powder; 1/2 tsp salt

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Some like it hot and some like it garlicky hot! Enjoy a blend of turmeric, garlic, chillies and some black pepper with an all-time favourite portion of carbs.

We Vegan @we_vegan

Some like it hot and some like it garlicky hot! Enjoy a blend of turmeric, garlic, chillies and some black pepper with an all-time favourite portion of carbs.

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Ingredients

40 minutes

2 people

2 tbspoil
1 pinchHing
1 tbspcumin seeds
2 piecesgreen chillies, minced (+/- 1 for spice tolerance)
1 piecedry red chilli, broken by hand (+/- 1 for spice tolerance)
5 clovesgarlic, minced
1 cuponions, moon-sliced (sliced and cut in half)
1 tbspturmeric powder (Haldi)
1 tbspblack pepper powder
1 tbspkitchen king masala (you can find it ready or can make your own with a mix of coriander powder, garam masala and cumin powder 1:1:1)
1/4lemon squeezed
1/2 cupchopped cilantro (garnish)
lemon slices (garnish)
For the rice boiling
1 cupRice
1/2 tspturmeric powder
1/2 tspsalt

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Steps

40 minutes

1

To boil the rice, see steps 3 to 8
2

Main dish, see steps 9 to end
3

Take a vessel with water, bring it to a boil
4

Add a pinch of turmeric powder, and salt
5

Add 1 tsp olive oil
6

Add the rice and cook until it is slightly undercooked, approximately 8-10 minutes should do the trick
7

When the rice tastes edible, slightly undercooked, strain the water
8

Set the rice aside in a strainer for it to dry
9

Cut chillies, garlic cloves and onions like this
10

Take a wok/kadhai, heat oil
11

When oil is hot, add hing, followed by cumin seeds, cook for 30 seconds
12

Add green chillies
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Break red chillies by hand and add, Cook for about 15-20 seconds
14

Add minced garlic and cook until it is slightly off-white in colour
15

Add the moon-slit onion and sauté till they turn pink
16

Add turmeric powder, black pepper powder and kitchen king powder
17

Add little salt (this is for the onions to cook to their full potential) (we will be adding more salt later)
18

Add very little water to the dish (as little as 30 ml), this will help the spices blend and spread the flavour
19

Add the rice we set aside in step number 8
20

Lightly mix the spice mix we made and the rice
21

Add water, approximately 60 ml this time
22

Cover and cook on low flame for approximately 2 minutes
23

Adjust the salt at this point
24

Add chopped cilantro (coriander) to the dish and mix
25

Squeeze 1/4 lemon into the wok and mix
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Cover and cook for more 2 minutes
27

Add 1 tbsp vegan butter to the dish and stir
28

Turn off the heat and cover for 1 minute
29

When you serve, garnish with sliced lemons