Description
Fresh asparagus caught my eyes this week at my local farmers market. Seemed like it was this weeks “Queen of vegetables”, as many people started grabing those bundles and with too much of sqeaking… a sign of truly fresh asparagus, with no further hesitation quickly bundled mine. With little creativity going in the kitchen, these healthy spears always turn out absolutely delicious, leaving us with endless possibilities. Here’s my latest addiction..Asparagus / Greeen Asparagus / Chinese / Stir-fried rice / Mixed Vegetable Fried Rice| Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| 6 stks | Asparagus (julienned) |
| 1 no | Onion (cut lengthwise ) |
| 1 no | Carrot (julienned) |
| 1 cup | Cabbage (shredded) |
| 1 cnt | Mixed bell peppers (cut lengthwise) |
| 1 no | Green chili (finely chopped) |
| 2 clove | Garlic (finely minced) |
| 1 inch | Ginger (finely minced) |
| 1 tsp | Soy sauce (dark or 2 tsp light soy sauce) |
| 1 tsp | Salt (or to taste) |
| 1 tsp | Black pepper powder |
| ¼ cup | Spring/green onions (finely chopped) |
| 4 tsp | Oil |
| 4 cup | Cooked basmathi rice. |
| 1 pinch | Sugar |
Instructions
Two cups of raw rice yields roughly 5 to 5 1/2 cups of cooked rice. You can either cook them in your rice cooker or stove top with half the salt and cool it completely before making this dish. A day old refrigerated rice always suits well for any fried rice. Wash the asparagus and trim the thick stalks at the bottom, everything else are completely edible. Cut them into thin strips, mince the green chili, ginger and garlic, shred the cabbage, chop the green onion, slice the onions and peppers into thin strips as shown.
Heat a wok or wide kadai, keep the flame on medium high and keep it running on the same setting throughout the process. Heat up the oil, add all the veggies excluding spring/green onions. Add sugar, dash of pepper and salt. Stir-fry for few minutes or until the veggies look slightly wilted but firm. (Since everything is cooked on high flame, it takes less than 2 minutes to cook the veggies) Add the cooked rice, remaining salt and pepper and soy sauce. Stir-fry until its well incorporated. Garnish with chopped spring onions and serve hot with choice of gravy.
Notes
Yield: Serves 3 approx.
Why other veggies included here???? Whenever introducing a new dish to my family, I always throw in some familiar veggies, which paves way for a comfortable intake. You can very well use just onions, green chili, ginger garlic and asparagus for this dish.
Scrambled eggs and choice of cooked meat can be added for non-veg version.
Comments
10 responses to “Asparagus Fried Rice”
Mullai..
My third attempt is going to be today. Bought a big bunch from Costco. ( will save some from usili later). This is our dinner with Spicy Chicken Curry/Fry.
I am sure will rock.. Unga recipe achay…
Thanks
Jaya
Mullai
I had bought a bunch of Asparagus this week, seeing this being put into use by few recipes, started y’day with this dish. Asparagus Stir Fried Rice with scrambled eggs. It was really awesome. I have never tasted this vegetable before. It was good. My kids loved it, made the same way with same veggies added too.. Packed some left overs for my husband’s lunch too. Once again thanks for this recipe and introducing a new vegetable to our family.
I have some more left from my bunch and I am going to try some other dish using this.
Regs
Jaya
Dear Mullai,
Just now I tried this recipe…its very tasty and remind me the taste of some continental restuarants in india(that i never thought i cuould make that dish one day).thanks very much..have a nice day and have fun xploring new items.
Rgds
meera
Hi Mullai, i tried asaparagus fried rice for today’s lunch, i used white slightly violet coloured Asparagus instead of green asparagus, it was delicious..here ppls used to have asparagus for salad with mayonnaise n myself cooked them as poriyals so never tried as main dish, thanks a lot for introducing this recipe to us..
Mullai,
Asperagus fried rice came out excellent. I added cayenne pepper in addition to the normal pepper to get a slight yellow tinge to the dish. I have this recipe stoved away for my next guest.
mullai,
Eppovum asathikittae irrukinga, will try this today ……
Mullai
I am sure to try this.. but first i need to buy Asparagus, I never have that on stock and started even looking at that vegetable after seeing several receipes in this web site about that. Likely to try within this week. Looks very good and creative.
Thanks
Jaya
Superb..will try it soon..
Mullai,
Nice recipe
Your creation is always good and perfect. Have a great day