Basmati Fried Rice


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Ingredients

Cooked Basmati Rice 1 bowl
Dried Scallops 2 ( about 2cm diameter)
Cooked crab meat 1/3 bowl
Spring onions For garnishing.
small Garlic 2 cloves bruised with back of knife
Ginger 2 slices
Chinese Rice Wine (Hua Tiao)
Soya sauce
White pepper powder
Egg 1, beaten

Preparation

1
Place dried scallops in a small bowl, with 2 sprigs of spring onions and 2 slices of ginger. Add a dash of Chinese Rice wine and steam over boiling water for 10 mins until softened.
2
Cool down and shred scallops.
3
I did the same with the crab meat just to remove the fishy smell a little.
4
In a hot wok, add oil. Add bruised garlics to infuse the wok with the fragrance of the garlic. Add shredded scallops, crab meat. Fry briskly over hot fire. Add Basmati Rice. Continue frying to mix flavours of the scallop and crab meat with the rice.
5
Season with soya sauce, lots of white pepper while frying.
6
Pushing the fried rice to one side, add a little oil and add beaten egg. When egg begins to set a little, mix the fried rice with the egg to coat rice with egg. Continue frying until egg is cooked.
7
Add diced spring onions and turn off heat.

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mangoes2020
July 6, 2011

In order to succeed this recipe you have to use Diamond Pearl Basmati Rice. This is a Pure Indian Basmati rice. If you want more informations go on the website http://www.sonaimpex.net or send a mail at info@sonaimex.com

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Basmati fried rice fried with dried scallops and crab meat.
The best Basmati rice is grown in India and Pakistan. When cooked, these are drier, less starchy than normal long grained rice, yielding a free flowing consistency. Some interesting facts about Basmati : a cup of cooked Basmati Rice has 170 calories while a cup of long grained rice carries 205 calories. Ayurveda, the traditional Indian healing approach recommends the Basmati rice. "That is because basmati rice is easy on the digestive system. Also, it is saatvic or pure, and balances the physiology. Basmati rice builds body tissue and is very high on praana or vital life energy,"

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