Prawn Fried rice

It was weekend and had to make something nice for dinner. Weekend outing and lot of sea fish shopping :) ..Basa , surmai & prawn. I wanted to cook goan prawn curry but the ingredients seemed to be unavailable & hence dropped the idea. Also PB said not to make any dal or curry. Instant dish came to my mind - lets have prawn fried rice with surmai fry. It came out to be tasty juicy and full of flavour. Here is the recipe for you.. Sorry  I could not take the stepwise pictures this time as I was in a hurry preparing the same after getting home late. Shall update as and when I cook it again.


Ingredients:

Prawn: 250gms (cleaned, washed. Make sure you soak the water after washing them)
Basmati Rice: 1 cup (washed & cooked)
Spring onion: 2 (sliced)
Garlic: 5-6 cloves grated
Carrot: 1 cut into juliennes (you can use other vegetables as well e.g. beans/capsicum)
Green chilli: 1-2 (optional)
Soya sauce: 2 tsp
Vinegar: 1 tsp
Chilli sauce: 1-2 tsp
MSG (ajinomoto): a pinch (avoid if you don't want to use)
Salt to taste
Oil: 2 tbsp.



Method:

If you pressure cook the rice, take it out to a bowl or dish & spread with a spatula/spoon once the cooker releases the pressure on its own. This will prevent the rice from sticking to each other.


Heat oil in a non-stick pan. Fry the spring onions & garlic together till translucent. Add the prawns and fry till they turn into light brown colour. If the prawn releases water, fry them till it dries up. Now add the chilli and vegetable. Fry in high heat stirring continuously for a minute or 2. You don't need the veggies to get cooked completely. Time to add the ajinomoto, salt, cooked rice and then the sauces ,in no particular order. Mix everything well , again in high heat and stir continuously. This would take you about 2-3 minutes or so. Put the flame off and transfer it to a serving dish/bowl.

At this stage you can sprinkle some more chopped green part of the spring onion and also sprinkle some scrambled egg. This will give you a nice crunchiness in every bite of this yummy prawn fried rice.