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Veg fried rice recipe with video – Delicious, flavorful and quick to make! There are so many ways a fried rice can be made. Chinese fried rice, schezwan style, egg fried rice, chicken fried rice are some of the most common ones from the Indo chinese cuisine. This vegetable fried rice is an easy one to follow, can be made with any sauce one likes. It can be made in a jiffy with basic ingredients and rice.
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Chinese Restaurants serve veg fried rice that often taste different from one another. The few ingredients that are used in almost all recipes is the monosodium glutamate called as ajjinomotto and the olive oil or sesame oil.

Ajjinomotto lends a different taste and flavor to the rice that dominates every other ingredient that is used. Due to the controversies associated with it, I do not suggest or use it for any of my foods. You can still make a very good vegetable fried rice with out it.

What vegetables do you put in fried rice?

To make veg fried rice, you can use your favorite veggies like corn, baby corn, beans, bell pepper, spring onions, peas, carrots,mushroom and cabbage too. We love using cabbage but it is optional. If you have a dislike towards it you can skip. But fresh tender shredded cabbage lends a unique flavor that one can find in restaurants served fried rice.

This recipe can be altered to suit your taste, make an Chinese style fried rice by using soya sauce or use peri peri sauce to make a hot spicy peri peri rice. It can also be made using only vinegar, typically a simple Indian style fried rice.

Health tips on using Soya sauce:

Soya sauce if used in moderation is said to be healthy, hence do not include it often in your diet as it is high in sodium may cause health issues.

While buying soya sauce choose one that is labelled as naturally brewed or traditionally brewed other ways of making soya sauce uses harsh chemicals which cause side effects in the long run.

Also check the ingredients, some soya sauce come with MSG (ajinomotto) included in it. Do not buy such bottles.

Soya is a hormone disrupter, so use with caution especially for kids.

You can also check this collection of 17 fried rice recipes.
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Veg fried rice recipe

Veg fried rice recipe | How to make vegetable fried rice recipe

Restaurant style easy vegetable friedrice recipe made in Chinese style. It can be served as a main course with any Chinese style side like chilli or manchurian
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Course Main
Cuisine Indo Chinese
Keyword easy, restaurant
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 424 kcal
Author Swasthi

Ingredients (240 ml cup used)

Ingredients for fried rice

  • 2 cups rice long grain
  • 1 tbsp garlic
  • 2 tbsp Olive oil or sesame oil
  • 1 tbsp Soya sauce (about 2 to 3 tsp, use to suit your taste)
  • ¾ to 1 tbsp vinegar (apple cider or white vinegar)
  • Salt as needed
  • ½ tsp pepper coarsely crushed

Veggies for fried rice recipe

  • ¼ cup carrots chopped finely
  • ¼ cup bell peppers or capsicum chopped finely
  • ¼ cup beans chopped finely
  • ¼ cup Cabbage (or 3 to 4 tbsp chopped )
  • ¼ cup Spring onions (or 3 to 4 tbsp chopped )

Optional ingredients (skip if you don’t have)

  • 1 green chili slit
  • 8 sprigs celery chopped finely
  • ¼ cup mushrooms sliced
  • 1 star anise
  • 1 strand mace

How to make the recipe

Preparation for fried rice recipe

  1. Wash rice till the water runs clear. Soak it for at least 10 mins. 

  2. Bring 8 to 10 cups of water to a boil in a large pot. Then drain the water from the rice and add it to the boiling water.

  3. Pour 1 tsp oil. This prevents the rice from turning sticky.

  4. Cook rice till al dente. Rice must not be mushy but has to be grainy.

  5. Drain off the rice to a colander. Cool it.

  6. While the rice cools, chop the veggies, garlic and other ingredients.

How to make fried rice

  1. Heat a wok with oil on the highest flame. 

  2. Add chopped garlic and sauté till they get fried slightly. If you wish to use mace and star anise you can use. They lend a wonderful flavour.

  3. Next put in all the chopped veggies and fry for a min or two. 

  4. If you like very crunchy bell peppers add it in the next step. You can also add in half tsp sugar to cut down the pungent taste from vinegar.

  5. To make Indian fried rice recipe just add vinegar to the wok. To make Chinese style, add to the wok soya sauce, vinegar, salt.

  6. Add rice and pepper powder. Mix everything well and fry for 2 mins.

  7. Garnish veg fried rice with fresh chopped spring onions.

Recipe Video

Video of veg fried rice recipe

Recipe Notes

Notes for veg fried rice recipe

A Chinese wok lends the best flavor to the rice. Even a cast iron skillet works good.
Rice must be fried on the highest flame or heat. That lends a smoky flavor to the rice
Do not use mushy rice.
Refrigerated rice can be used.
You can make variations to this by adding some schezwan sauce
You can also stir in an egg after frying the veggies.

Nutrition Facts
Veg fried rice recipe | How to make vegetable fried rice recipe
Amount Per Serving (2 g)
Calories 424 Calories from Fat 63
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 7g 11%
Saturated Fat 1g 5%
Sodium 304mg 13%
Potassium 207mg 6%
Total Carbohydrates 78g 26%
Dietary Fiber 2g 8%
Sugars 2g
Protein 8g 16%
Vitamin A 33.8%
Vitamin C 21.8%
Calcium 3.7%
Iron 6.1%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

veg fried rice

You may like pair few sides with this fried rice.
Veg manchurian
Chilli paneer
Chilli chicken
Crispy chilli chicken
Chilli potato
Chicken manchurian

Preparation for veg fried rice recipe

1. Soak rice for 10 to 20 mins and cook in lot of water with few drops oil, till al dente but not mushy.Grains must be separated.
cooking rice for making veg fried rice recipe
2. Drain off the rice to a colander and cool it. While the rice cooks, chop all the veggies.
Drain rice

How to make veg fried rice recipe

(to cook on high flame and do not overcook the veggies as they lose the crunch)
3. Heat oil in a wok on the highest flame, If you don’t have a wok, use a wide pan. Add garlic sauté till you get an aroma. If you wish to use spices, you can add a single strand of mace and star anise now and fry for a min. This is optional but gives the authentic chinese cuisine flavors.
frying garlic
4. Add all chopped vegetables and fry for 2 minutes.
frying chopped veggies for making vegetable fried rice recipe
5. Next add sugar if you like. Using sugar keeps the veggies color intact.
adding sugar
6. For making Indian fried rice just add vinegar and salt. To make chinese style, add soya sauce, vinegar and salt. You can also add red chili sauce as needed and this is optional.There is already salt added in the sauces, so take care not to add too much.
adding sauce
7. When the sauce bubbles, add rice and pepper.You can even sprinkle pepper powder fresh before serving.
Adding cooked rice to make veg fried rice recipe
8. Toss, Mix, fry for 2 to 3 mins. Adjust more of less sauce now to suit your taste. Remember the entire cooking process should happen on the highest flame. Otherwise the moisture from the veggies can make the rice mushy.
tossing vegetables
Garnish fried rice with spring onions.
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  2. Thank u for such an awesome n simple recipe. I have made fried rice before, but this one, my family LOVED IT 😊

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  5. Thank you swasti. we don’t take children to outside every time. They like always outside food. If we prepare in home they like it.
    Once again thanks

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  11. hi…i tried veg fried rice with gobi manjurian….both the recepies dish came out really welll…..need to try paneer butter masala… once again thanks dear….

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  15. I liked the Recepies very much thanks of sharing it…..it would be a great help in Ramzaan……hope for more new ones….

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  17. Very delicious food. I wanted to add one more thing to make yummy.
    Heat an old pan, place this Veg Pulao pot and dum cook for 15-20 mins on a medium heat.

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  19. Hi..i like all your recipes nd they r v easy to make nd become delicious. I like much bcoz of the pictures u provide of step by step.upload more recipes.

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  21. Hello Swasthi
    I really love your all recipes. I have tried no. of recipes too.
    I have a suggestion and request that “would you like to provide all about all Indian thali recipes or a full thali?
    Thank you and keep it up.

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  24. Superb…. Delicious….. Yummy…… Thank you very much. i love your blog. Its very helpful 4 me. Please share chicken or mutton Hakeem. Its my fevrt dish.

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  26. This recipe is fantastic and very important for women’s so pls send me all recepi as u can

    Thank u so much

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  28. Thank u so much for this easy fried rice recipe.. my family said this was better than the resturant one..:)

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  30. Made this just now and your recipe is brilliant!! Also made the Chicken 65 (restaurant style). THANK YOU so much for sharing your lovely recipes!

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  40. Thanks so much for posting these recipes. I have not yet made any, but they all look great and easy. I’ve been looking for new, good recipes to make, and I love this site. My boyfriend has been asking me to find a good indian dish to make. I can’t wait to try these, I’m sure he will love them!!!

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  42. These are amazing foods collections. Wished I could practice all perfectly well. I hope to try some on my own. Thanks for all the receipts is worth trying.

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  48. Hi,

    First of all I would like to say thank you for all recipe.. I dont know who is behind of this blog and website. Each and every step of your recipe and presentation all are amazing.

    I am big fan of your site. I learn so many thing from your site.

    Regards
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  53. This fried rice recipe was good and we tried , it was superb and tasty , I hope it is the actual taste of fried rice …………..it was mind blowing ………..Thank you

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  55. Really superb … I lk this recipe’s r too good . and I learn so many thing …. My family is so happy WD my cooking

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  63. Seriously ur recipes are simply awesomeeee……..
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  65. Hey it was real easy recipe and which helped me more was abt the flame u mentioned it should b done on high flame it wrked really well . Keeep going

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  69. Hi,

    I found your recipe tasty.Thank you. I had not used Ajjinomotto. But used Dal mix with Banana Stem flavors (The product i used has so many other natural & nutritious dal mix like what i used) which is good in our area. It gave a good taste. Can we add like this to give our children a healthy eat mam.

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