Fried Rice with Peas and Carrots

 Fried rice with peas and carrots also known as Carrots and peas fried rice is a variety of rice made with carrots, frozen green peas, onion, ghee fried and cooked basmati rice and can be served with plain curd or onion curd raita.The following ingredients are needed to prepare Fried Rice with Peas and Carrots / Carrots and Peas Fried Rice.

Ingredients:
Basmati rice.     -1 cup
Carrots,             - 2
Green peas.      -1/4 cup frozen
Onion.               -2
Green chilly.     -2
Ginger.              -a small 
Garlic. cloves.   -3
Cinnamon stick.-1 small
Cloves.              -3
Cardamom.       -3
Pepper powder  -1tsp
Soy sauce.         -1/2 tsp
Water.                -2 cups
Salt.                   - to taste
Oil.                    -1 tsp
Ghee.-1tbsp + 1tbsp + 1tsp

Instructions:
1). Wash and soak basmati rice in water for 30 minutes. Drain water completely from it and keep aside. Chop onion into thin lengthy slices. Chop ginger and garlic cloves into small pieces. Half slit green chillies. Keep aside.

2). Heat 1tbsp ghee in a pressure cooker. Add cinnamon stick, cloves and cardamom and saute well. Add soaked basmati rice and fry in ghee for a minute on low flame. Add 1tsp salt and 2 cups of water into the cooker vessel and mix well. Close the cooker vessel with a lid and cook the rice for 1 whistle on high flame. Switch off the flame and keep aside the ghee fried and cooked basmati rice.

Method:
1). Heat 1tbsp ghee and 1tsp oil in a wide bottom pan. Add half slit green chillies, chopped ginger and chopped garlic cloves into the pan and saute for a second.

2). Add chopped onion and required salt into the pan and saute well until onion turns translucent.

3). Add chopped carrot and frozen green peas into the pan and sprinkle little water. Cover and cook the vegetables until soft on low flame. 

4). Add 1tsp soy sauce into the pan and mix with the cooked vegetables. Add ghee fried and cooked basmati rice into the pan and mix well.

5). Add pepper powder into the pan and mix with all the ingredients in the pan and cook for a minute and switch off the flame.

6). Add 1tsp ghee on the top of the fried rice and cover the pan with a lid for a minute.Transfer the fried rice with peas and carrots to a serving plate.

Fried Rice with Peas and Carrots / Carrot and Peas Fried Rice is ready to serve with plain curd or with onion curd raita.