Potato Fried Rice

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It is simple yet packed with flavours! Potato fried rice is a tasty and easy to cook recipe with simple ingredients. In this recipe, the rice should be properly cooked and cool it thoroughly. It is suitable for lunch box or a quick meal. It can be served with any vegetable curry, curd, raita or tomato chutney with garlic & onion.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Yield: 2 servings

Ingredients:

• Basmati Rice ~ 1 cup
  
• Potato ~ 2, medium
• Carrot ~ 1, small
• Peanut ~ ½ cup
• Onion ~ 1
• Garlic ~ 3- 4 cloves, chopped
• Green chilli ~ 2
• Ginger  ~ 1 tsp, grated
• Raisins ~ 5-6
• Pepper powder ~ 1 tsp
• Sugar ~ 1 tsp
• Cumin seeds ~ ½ tsp
• Bay leaf ~ 2
  
• Ghee ~ 1 tsp
• Refined Oil ~ 3 Tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Water ~ as needed

     Dry Spices:

• Cinnamon ~ 1 inch
  
• Green Cardamom ~ 4
• Cloves ~ 4-5

How to Prepare: 

• Wash and cook rice. Rice should be grainy, fully cooked but not mushy. Drain off the rice once cooked and then cool it properly.

• Wash, peel and cut potatoes into small cubes and finely slice the onion. Chop green chillies, garlic cloves, carrot and grate ginger. Make a fine powder of the dry spices.

• Heat  1 Tbsp oil in a deep pan. Add the peanuts and saute. Keep it aside.

• Add the remaining oil + ghee into the pan. Add bay leaf and cumin seeds and allow it to sizzle.

• Add finely sliced onions, saute till it becomes golden brown in colour.Then add ginger, chopped garlic cloves, green chillies and dry spices powder. Saute for 2 minutes.

• Add cubed potatoes and chopped carrot, roast till they are fully cooked. Add pepper powder, sugar and salt. Saute well. 

• Add cooked rice to the pan.

• Now add fried peanuts and raisins. Mix well. Saute for few minutes.

• Turn off the gas.

• Garnish potato fried rice with coriander leaves and serve with vegetables curry or raita or tomato chutney.

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