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Vegetable masala Rice/ Vegetable Spicy Fried Rice

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When you want a dish that is a one pot meal, this vegetable masala rice will be a good choice. I make this very often. We like only few one pot meal like tomato rice, Yogurt/curd rice, Tamarind rice/ Puliyodharai. My hubby doesn’t like lemon rice, he says it is dry. So I can’t make that one. Venpongal I make some time. 
Some days I am not in a mood to make a rice and curry, in that case I will make this rice. If you have left over rice, try this one this is easy to make. You can make this dish with whatever vegetable in your hand. Mostly I make them with cabbage, carrot, beans, and peas. Of course onion will be there with some ginger and green chilly. Usually I will also add fresh mint and coriander leaves. This time I ran out of coriander leaves, so I add curry leaves instead. I like them very much. While growing up I didn’t care that much about curry leaves, when you buy vegetables you will get curry leaf free. In every home there will be curry leaf plant or tree. Once I left India, I recognized the importance of curry leaves. Even if I find them in store they cost the price of gold. These leaves give a special type of aroma to the dish, which no other ingredient can give. 
Last year due to frost we lost our curry leaf plant, I was literally crying, finally by this summer, they start to come back and it’s become fully fledged plant again. I made this rice with garam masala, chili powder and biriyani masala. At the end I seasoned this rice with ghee roasted raisins and cashew nuts. Here goes the recipe.

What you need

Carrot: ⅔ cup (Chopped in small cubes)
Onion: ½ cup (Chopped finely)
Green chili: 1 ( I used Hot Thai pepper)
Green onion: 2 tablespoon (About 2)
Cabbage: 1 ½ cup (Chopped finely)
Green peas: ⅓ cup ( I used frozen)
Cashews: 10 no
Raisins: 25 no
Salt: 1 ½ teaspoon or to taste
Oil: 1 tablespoon (I used olive oil)
Turmeric powder: ¼ teaspoon
Cinnamon: 1 inch
Cardamom: 3no
Bay leaves: 1 no
Biryani masala powder: ½ tablespoon (Recipe follows)
Garam masala: ½ teaspoon
Chili powder: ¼ teaspoon
Coriander powder: ¼ teaspoon
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Min leaves: 2 sprig
Ghee/Clarified butter: 2 tablespoon
Rice: 3 ½ cup (I used cooked Rose matta)


For Biryani masala/Spice powder

Fennel Seeds : ¾ teaspoon
Cumin seeds: ¾ teaspoon
Caraway Seeds: ¾ teaspoon
Cloves: 6no
Caradmom: 3no
Cinnamon: 1 ½inch

How I made

First make the biryani masala by grinding all the spices in a coffee grinder and it will yield 1 tablespoon, this recipe requires only ½ tablespoon , you can store the rest in air tight container for future use. 
Heat Ghee and oil in skillet and add cashew and raisins and fry for about 1 minute or until cashew become golden brown and raisins plums up. Remove them using a slotted spoon and Set aside.
In the same pan add cinnamon, cardamom , bay leaves, green chili and onion and fry for about 6 minutes or until they become translucent or change color. To this add rest of the vegetables, salt and turmeric and fry for about 5 minutes or until they are done. 
To this onion-vegetable mixture add chili powder, coriander powder, gram masala , biriyani powder and fry for 1 minutes. Then add curry leaves and mint leaves and fry for 30 seconds. To this add cooked rice and fry for another 1 minutes or until spices and vegetables get mixed uniformly. Check and adjust the spices if needed.

Switch off the flame, garnish with ghee roasted cashews and raisins.

Enjoy with raita. You don’t need any curry to go with it.

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serving: 7 serving
Verdict: Yummy
Will you make it again: Yes

Swathi

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  1. kitchen queen says

    delicious and mouth watering rice dish.

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  2. RV says

    Yummilicious!! Such a quick Biriyani..

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  3. Padhu says

    Hi Swathi
    Rice looks so tempting!!

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  4. Pari says

    Hi. I guess you have used the red rice or the kerala rice. The rice looks very flavourful dear.

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  6. Sandhya Hariharan says

    Not able to follow swati.. wil ldefinitely come back... follow button is throwing up errors!

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  7. Sandhya Hariharan says

    Heyy Swati...

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  8. Cinnamon-Girl says

    This is such a delicious rice Swathi! I like the added touch of raisins and cashews. I never had a fresh curry leaf - must be rare here.

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  9. Faith says

    What a beautiful rice dish! I'm going to look for curry leaves (I haven't been able to find them yet) to make this...my hubby would love it! 🙂

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  10. shahana says

    Picture kandittu thannai vayil vellam varunnu.Loved the addition of biryani masala.Nallai lunch ithu try cheyyunundu.

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  11. Suman Singh says

    love this one pot meal...looks delicious..yummie!

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  12. Suma Gandlur says

    Thanks for this mouthwatering, aromatic rice dish.

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  13. Rosa's Yummy Yums says

    Delicious and healthy!

    Cheers,

    Rosa

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  14. Hamaree Rasoi says

    This one pot meal looks absolutely inviting and delicious. Very nice clicks
    Deepa
    Hamaree Rasoi

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  15. Neha says

    rice looks really yummy..good one swathi

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  16. srikars kitchen says

    wow.. looks perfect & nice click..

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  17. Priti says

    Wow looks so perfect...

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  18. jais says

    looks perfect.

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  19. PranisKitchen says

    thats true curryleaves gives nice flavor to the dish.. send some curryleaves from ur plant..
    nice masala rice.. looks so delicious

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  20. PJ says

    I love one pot meals too.Rose matta rice used rice make a huge difference!!!Thanks for sending it to the event Swathi.

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  21. Kiran says

    Swathi,
    Very delicious ,healthy and colorful vegetable masala rice.

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  22. RAKS KITCHEN says

    Looks and sounds really nice,very nice click too!

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  23. VineelaSiva says

    Wow yummy and colourful rice.Never try rose matta rice.Will try.I posted ur plantain peel curry thank u very much for the post swathi.

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  24. Rachana says

    I prefer rice to roti's and this vegetable masala rice with some raita would make such a delicious meal!

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  25. Panchpakwan says

    Looks delicious and healthy biryani..I have not used rose matta rice..new to me.

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  26. Vrinda says

    Delicious masala rice...

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  27. Priya says

    Great looking masala rice, i love these sort of one pot meal very much...delicious rice..

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  28. Subhashini says

    Very perfect, healthy and complete meal.

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  29. Sushma Mallya says

    Lovely way to use vegetables in this rice...looks so yum and love the 1st click...

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  30. Usha says

    Sounds flavorful and looks so inviting !

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  31. Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal says

    That is one beautiful dish. This type of rice is new to me, looks good.

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  32. Rach says

    Yummy, I always make this, I try different variety masala rice with brown rice, its amazing. I'm a rice eater and love variety of rice, just like U 🙂

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  33. Sanyukta Gour(Bayes) says

    wht a gorgeous and aromatic rice...looks tempting and mouthwatering

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