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Recipe from Banu’s Cook Book 

***Ingredients***
1 ½ cups of basmati rice cooked
Salt to taste
2 tblspns of oil/ghee
A pinch of asafoetida
2 dried red chillies
1 tblspn of split black gram (urad dal)
1 tblspn of split gram (chana dal)
½ tspn of fenugreek seeds (methi seeds)
½ cup of peanuts
½ tspn of mustard seeds (optional)
10-12 of curry leaves
3 tblspns of lemon juice
½ tspn of turmeric powder
1 tblspn of grated fresh coconut (optional)

***Method***
1) Cook the rice as per directions.
2) Heat oil/ghee in a shallow pan or a kadai.
3) Add a pinch of asafoetida. Add dried red chillies broken into two, urad dal, chana dal and methi seeds. Cook until dals change colour to light brown.
4) Add peanuts and mustard seeds. Let mustard seeds crackle, then add curry leaves.
5) Mix turmeric powder in this. Stir fry for half a minute.
6) Add cooked rice, salt and lemon juice.

Garnish with grated coconut.

Notes:
1) You can use roasted or fried peanuts for this recipe
2) YOu also add Onions, Peas, Finely Chopped Bellpepper to this recipe as well.

Ingredients: 

2 small bok choy
2 large bok choy
4-5 medium size leaves of cabbage
2/3 cup of mixed carrot and peas
1 cup of rice
2 eggs
4-5 tbsp cooking oil (you can use olive oil if you are conscious about calories)

 - Bok Choy

 - Baby Bok Choy

Method:

1) Cooked the rice one day ahead and store it inside refrigerator over night.
2) Thin slice bok choy and cabbage.
3) Heat Oil in a pan and sautee cabbage for about 2 minute. Add bok choy into cabbage. Add salt and stir them.
4) When bok choy and cabbage are soft and tender, remove them out of pan.
5) Warm 2-3 tbsp cooking oil. Add cold rice, stir fry.
6) When rice is warm, make a hole in the middle and crack 2 eggs there. Scramble egg and mix egg with rice when egg is solid but not too hard.
7) Add bok choy and cabbage back into rice, mix well. Add more salt or few drops of soy sauce.
Turn burner to low heat and let it stay for 5-8 minutes (this dependents on how you like the fried rice, if you like it a little sticky and soft, 5 minute, if you like fried rice not sticky at all, take long time to keep it on low heat).
9) You can also add black mushroom (the chinese type) into your fried rice. Thin slice mushroom the same way as bok choy.