Ginger Garlic Fried Rice with Vegetables

Delicious and easy homemade ginger garlic fried rice loaded with vegetables like finely chopped carrots, green beans, lots of onion, spring onion, ginger & garlic. The perfect way to use left over cold rice giving you a very delicious asian style quick dinner or lunch, that is both: vegetarian and vegan.

Better than chinese take out, these vegetable fried rice are made so often in my family, something we love to eat with a hearty peanut sauce tofu curry or just simple Thai red curry with vegetables. So good, so comforting, I love how this restaurant style fried rice comes together in just 15 minutes and is really perfect for a quick and easy meal using pantry staples or basic kitchen essentials.

This recipe for ginger garlic fried rice gives you a delicious comforting bowl of vibrant, colourful, flavourful, spicy (coz of black pepper) lightly browned rice tossed in soy sauce, giving it that umami flavour and just salt + whatever veggies you have in hand, making it ideal, to be made when you want to clean up your fridge!

How to make asian style ginger garlic fried rice?

Ingredients:

• Rice: plain rice - my number one tip to make the best ever fried rice is to use plain, cooked, refrigerated cold rice. If they are a day old, thats even better! If not, then refrigerate the cooked rice for at least 3 hours before using. Cold rice is completely dried up. Dried up rice means that the cooked rice grains are completely separated from one another, which means its easier for the rice to be tossed and mixed with soy sauce and vegetables, plus it also prevents the rice to be mushy. I used basmati rice for this recipe and the rice was refrigerated over night.
• Vegetables: Onion, garlic, ginger, beans and carrots that are really very finely chopped. You can also use peas if you like, or whatever veggies you have in hand including mushrooms or broccoli or peppers. I also added some spring onion (scallions) in the end for extra flavour. You can also add green peas, if you like.
• Salt, pepper
• Soy sauce: 1 full tablespoon of light soy sauce for that extra umami flavour.

Method:

• Start by cooking some onions in some oil. Add ginger and garlic (finely chopped) and cook until light brown.
• Add the chopped veggies (carrots and beans) and cook until they are brown in colour.

• Now add the cooked, cold refrigerated rice, light soy sauce, salt, pepper and scallions and mix well. 

The second most important tip to make the best ever fried rice? Cook everything start to finish at the highest flame. Keep mixing throughout with the help of a wooden spoon and you will end up with really well tossed, in fact, lightly crunched up from the bottom, fried rice in the end.

Possible variations for easy homemade vegan fried rice:

• This recipe for ginger garlic fried rice is vegetarian and vegan (eggless), but lots of people like adding egg in their fried rice, whereas I like to make fried rice without egg. You do you.
• Add cooked chicken bits if you like.
• Some grilled corn may be?
• What to serve with veg fried rice? Thai red curry, or chilli paneer, chilli potatoes, peanut sauce tofu, with crispy orange chicken or cook yourself a batch of these delicious mushroom or chicken gyozas (potstickers) and call it an Asian night 😀

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