Paneer Fried Rice

Ingredients for Paneer Fried Rice:

1. Cooked basmati rice – 1.5 cups

2. Paneer cubes – ½ cup

3. Green capsicum chopped – ¼ cup

4. White spring onion chopped – ¼ cup

5. Green spring onion chopped – 2 table spoon

6. Soya sauce – 2 tsp

7. Salt – For taste

8. Ginger, garlic chopped – ½ tsp

9. Red chillies crushed – ½ tsp

10. Pepper powder – ½ tsp

11. Oil – 3 tsp

How to prepare Paneer Fried Rice?

1. Cook rice and allow it cool completely.

2. Spread rice in a plate. Add a few drops of oil and keep aside.

3. Heat a tawa and add one tea spoon of oil.

4. Add chopped paneer pieces and sauté it till it turns golden brown.

5. Heat another pan and add three teaspoon oil.

6. Add crushed ginger & garlic and fry in high flame.

7. Add white spring onions and fry in high flame.

8. Add crushed chillies and sauté well.

9. Sauté the ingredients in high flame for 5 minutes.

10. Add soya sauce, pepper powder and salt and sauté for three more minutes in high flame.

11. Add fried paneer pieces and mix well.

12. Add cooked rice and mix again.

13. Decorate using green spring onion.

Note: Do not sauté paneer for a long time. If so, it turns very hard.

Courtesy: Grihalakshmi September 1-15, 2017

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