Monday, November 23, 2009

Easy Veggie Fried Rice and Green Curry

I've been working on a Thai food menu for my dear friend, Dee Dee who loves Thai food but has never cooked or tried Thai homemade dishes before. I let her borrow my Thai cookbooks last week and she bookmarked several recipes that she is interested in trying. I'm planning on inviting her and her lovely family for a dinner one Sunday. I don't have a complete menu yet but I'll definitely make these 2 dishes which I've experimented with for many times.


Easy Veggie Fried Rice



My son, Nathan who loves my fried rice so much has requested this dish because he wanted his friend, Kaevan (Dee Dee's son) to try it. I hope my vegan friends would understand why I used eggs in this dish. I've just become a vegetarian for less than a year because of health reasons. I'm intolerant of dairy products so I try to avoid them as much as I can. I still include eggs in my diet but I didn't eat eggs during my Vegan Food Experiment. I started to eat them again last week and I feel perfectly fine.




This is how I cook my fried rice:

1) Heat olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add minced garlic, stir until golden brown.

2) Add 2 eggs, stir and cook for few minutes, add cooked rice, soy sauce, vegetarian oyster sauce, and a couple drops of agave syrup (secret ingredient), keep stirring.

3) Add frozen mixed vegetables, stir to mix all the ingredients together about 2 minutes and lower the heat. Cover for 5 minutes and stirring gently about 2-3 minutes more.


I've been fascinated with any kind of rice dish. I grew up eating rice all my life, I truly believe that I can't live without it. So here are some wonderful recipes that I've found and can't wait to experiment with. Hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do:

- Ginger Rice with Sesame Seeds from Authentic Food Delights Blog

- Ghee Rice from Kothiyavunu Blog

- Microwave Coconut Milk Vegetable Rice from Kothiyavunu Blog

- Sesame Fried Rice from Simply Life Blog

- Vegetable Fried Rice from Collaborative Curry Blog

- Thai Fried Rice from Vegan Dad Blog

- Tomato Onigiri Italian Style from Vegan Epicurean Blog

- Jira Rice from Mitten Machen Blog

- Green Pea Pulao Rice from Maine Food and Lifestyle Blog

- Rice Recipes from My Home Cooking Blog

- Indian Inspired Cabbage and Peas from Vegan Epicurean Blog

- Brinjal Rice from Padhu's Kitchen Blog

- Simple Vegetable Rice from Padhu's Kitchen Blog

- Mango Rice from Vazhayila Blog

- Coconut Rice from Vazhayila Blog




Note: Please send me your link if you have posted any rice dishes, I'd love to add yours to my collection. Thank you in advance:)


Easy Veggie Green Curry
I've made green curry to eat with rice or noodles countless times and I usually follow the method provided on the curry paste package. I'm not a kind of person who considers making curry paste from scratch, I hope you know why??? This time, I had green beans, green peas, baby spinach and bell peppers but I will add tofu when I cook for Dee Dee. Oh! by the way, you can find more photos of my other green curry from here



That's all for today, I'm still working on other dishes and hope I would be able to share them with you very soon. Thank you so very much for stopping by my blog and leaving such wonderful comments. I always appreciate your time, I'll visit your blogs as soon as possible.



Have a lovely week, everyone:)

26 comments:

  1. It's really fun to explore vegan diet, as you will be forced to discover wonderful fruits, vegetables, lentils and beans!

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  2. Yum! All those rice dishes sound absolutely yummy!
    I do think my rice dishes do need an update now!

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  3. Your rice dishes look great! I love fried rice in all its forms. It is such a veratile and tasty dish.

    Alicia

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  4. Fried rice looks really colourful and very delicious,surely ur son & his friend must have loved it ....looks very tempting ...and beautiful clicks too..

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  5. very tempting rice preparation...would love to try it once !

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  6. Your so lovely cooking for others, i always wish someone besides my mum would cook for me but I guess those who arent veggie dont really like cooking veggie.
    Did you feel any different after eating vegan? when you started i think i asked the same question, so im guessing not :)
    Many people use eggs in fried rice and as i say to my bf, im happy to eat vegan, thats my choice and if people want to try my cooking thats great, but i dont impose or push being a vegan onto anyone :) if that makes sense.
    Now i feel like eating fried rice which i havent had in quite a while i must say, we make it very similar to you. The curry sounds lovely

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  7. Yum! I love fried rice and you even made it look so pretty!!!

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  8. Fried rice looks delicious..Perfect with that green curry..Ooh yummy!!!

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  9. Perfect and colourful fried rice. Ma alltim fav dish.

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  10. Lovely fried rice...green curry pic is so tempting,nicely presented...

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  11. I absolutely love rice. I'm eating a lot more since going gluten-free, and I never get sick of it! Your fried rice looks delicious. It would be easy for me to omit the egg, so thanks for the recipe!

    Here is my recipe for Jira rice (goes with Indian food):

    http://www.mittenmachen.com/2009/02/seitan-tikka-with-jira-rice.html

    Green pea pulao:

    http://blog.mainefoodandlifestyle.com/2009/07/pulao-rice-with-fresh-green-peas.html

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  12. Fried rice looks delicious and colorful.

    Some of my rice recipes are
    http://myhomecooking-dhanya.blogspot.com/search/label/Rice

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  13. A delicious fried rice with yummy thai curry! Looks just gorgeous! Feel like having some rite now..:)Thanks for linking my rice recipe with yours..Keep rocking!!

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  14. Oraphan,

    Sorry for the delay in sending this. I have been busy prepping for Thanksgiving. I created an Italian version of a Japanese dish (tomato onigiri) you may find interesting. Here is the link.

    http://veganepicurean.blogspot.com/2009/06/tomato-onigiri-italian-style.html

    talk to you soon,
    Alicia

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  15. Oraphan,

    Hmmm its kind of hard for me to be a vegetarian, but I reduced non-veg intake by degrees. Milk intolerance...must be hard, have you tried coconut milk as an alternate? Although we can't treat them like soy milk, but pretty much tastes right:)

    And I really like this fried rice, its comfort meal:)

    Plan your menu, I am so eagar:)

    And Nathan name sounds cute, and we too have such name in India for boys.:)

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  16. The fried rice was great! I love all the veggies in it, + eggs. LOVED IT =D.

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  17. Fried rice looks so colourful and yummy.Lovely clicks .
    You can try this Eggplant rice and simple vegetable pulav from my blog.

    http://padhuskitchen.blogspot.com/2009/09/brinjal-ricevangi-bathkattirikai-sadam.html

    http://padhuskitchen.blogspot.com/2009/11/simple-vegetable-pulav.html

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  18. It's been ages since I've had fried rice... Some of that would really hit the spot right about now! I'm thinking that some scrambled tofu could fill in nicely for the egg for me, at least. :)

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  19. These rice dishes are making me hungry.

    I especially like the look of the Thai curry.

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  20. That green curry dish looks so flavorful! I haven't had a good curry dish in ages, thank you for reminding me!

    Lucky DeeDee to have you planning on cooking a meal for her!

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  21. The fried rice looks really good and so does the green curry. Though, I don't really know how spicy the curry would be, but I really want to try. NOODLES FOR ME PLEASE! =D

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  22. Fried rice is my all time favorite dish. Your pics
    look great, also the green curry made me feel hungry just to look at it!!

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  23. Thanks to Padhu for introducing your blog,
    I love eggplant, it sounds good to hear you made
    eggplant rice, I also love your simple vegetable
    pulav, thanks again for the simply recipes!!

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  24. Oh Nuan! I've also been very busy and just found some time to finally catch up on your blog. I feel so privileged to have you mention me and I'm so excited that you are taking so much time to make something special for me and my family. You are such a dear friend and I know everyone who reads your blog - even if they haven't met you can tell that you are such a wonderful and kind-hearted person. I know you have been working a lot lately and I know keeping up with your blog is a lot of work ~ I admire you so much for being able to juggle everything on top of being able to cook such healthy meals for you and your family. Thank you for making me feel so special =) Keep up the good work and I can't wait to try more of your cooking!! Yummmmmm =)

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  25. This curry is gorgeous,different, quick and yummy. Do visit my blog when time permits.http://shanthisthaligai.blogspot.com/

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  26. Hi Orphaphan havn't seen you in the blogging world for a while,hope all is well with you.
    This rice recipe looks delicious and nice presentation too.
    Sharing with you some of my rice dishes:

    http://simplysensationalfood.blogspot.com/2009/08/lemon-rice-with-sweetcorn-and-coconut.html
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    http://simplysensationalfood.blogspot.com/2009/01/jeera-rice.html
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    http://simplysensationalfood.blogspot.com/2008/10/veg-rice.html
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    http://simplysensationalfood.blogspot.com/2010/02/tomato-rice.html
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