Sunday, March 7, 2010

Mushroom Vegetable Rice

This weekend I found lots of leftover vegetables and mushrooms in my fridge and decided to cook something healthy and non-spicy with that. The first thing that came to my mind was vegetable fried rice. But my hubby suggested mushroom vegetable rice, since he is very much fond of crispy vegetables cooked in olive oil. He always prefer coarse black pepper powder, than green chillies and red chilly powder which normally makes the food spicy. I think he got influenced by his Filipino friends who always 'sweat and cry' when they eat dish cooked with red chilly powder or green chillies. But they never have issues with black pepper.


Ingredients:
Jeera Rice - 1 1/2 cup (Basmati rice is a better option)
Mushroom - 1 1/2 cup chopped
Red Cabbage - 1 cup grated
Broccoli Florets - 1 cup
Onion - 2 small chopped
Carrot - 1 no chopped
Turmeric Powder - 1 pinch
Black Pepper Powder - 1 t spoon
Light Soy Sauce - 1 t spoon
Slat - To taste
Olive Oil - 2 table spoon


Preparation:
  1. Cook the rice with enough water, salt and few drops of oil. Once cooked drain the water using a colander. Make sure that the rice is not over cooked and sticky.
  2. Heat a sauce pan and add olive oil.
  3. Add onions and saute well. Add a pinch of turmeric and salt and continue to stir.
  4. Add carrots and stir for around 2 minutes.
  5. Add chopped mushrooms and stir well.
  6. Add pepper powder and mix well.
  7. Add broccoli florets and cover the sauce pan with a lid cook over low flame for about 3 minutes.
  8. Then add chopped red cabbage mix well and cook for about 1 minute.
  9. Add the soy sauce and mix well.
  10. Mix the cooked rice with the cooked vegetables.
Delicious mushroom vegetable rice is ready to serve with any kind of salads. It is a very healthy choice.

24 comments :

  1. Nice & colourful...healthy with all the vegetables used...

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  2. Hi Aparna
    Mushroom veg rice looks very colorful and yummy!
    Sounds healthy also

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  3. Very colourful and healthy too.Looks yummy

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  4. That is a healthy one with all the vegetables cooked in olive oil... really colorful too..

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  5. Such a wholesome and healthy rice, yummmyy!!

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  6. wow looks so healthy and yummy!!!!!

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  7. wonderful veggiee rice....i dont eat mushrooms...but i like this combination of veggie rice...love the presentation aparna...

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  8. wow nice one....a gud way to finish the veg..deee an award waiting for u...

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  9. yummy yum yum./...such a delicious rice...

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  10. Thats a wholesome , healthy and delicious rice dish!

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  11. Nice colorful and healthy rice..looks good :)

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  12. Colorfully delicious.. now isnt that nice!

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  13. wow!wat a colorful click?!luks soo yum...luv this
    non-spicy version.

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  14. Beautiful click dear...Ithu enteyum fav anu..

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  15. angane pachakkari oke theerthu alle...idea kollam :)

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  16. Looks coloyrful and healthy dear!!

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  17. Yummy yumm!!! healthy and delicious..adipoli

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  18. adipoli idea da..you have made a simple dish look so elegant and colorful

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  19. sUCH A HEALTHY AND ELEGANT DISH!! LOOKS SO TASTY AND TEMPTING...

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  20. Dear, rice looks colorful..yummy too...

    Send your entries when you get time..

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  21. wow aparna vl colourful n flavourful rice, vl taste yumm

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  22. What a colourful and healthy veg rice!!I'm going to bookmark this :-)
    Deepa

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  23. Delicious healthy & colourful rice..:)

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  24. Healthy, beautiful, and delicious. What a lovely way to prepare and present rice.

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