Schezwan Chicken fried rice recipe | Spicy Chicken Fried Rice Recipe | Schezwan Chicken Rice
Schezwan chicken fried rice is Indo-Chinese dish where rice and chicken are tossed with spicy schezwan sauce
Servings 5 -6
Ingredients
- Boneless Chicken ½ kg
- Garlic 5-6 finely chopped
- Carrot ⅓ cup
- Cabbage ½ cup
- Capsicum 1 small
- Egg 3
- Schezwan sauce 3 tbsp
- Pepper powder 2 tsp
- Salt as required
- Sugar 1 tsp
- Oil 2-3 tbsp
- Spring onions finely chopped to garnish
Marination
- 1.5 tbsp Ginger garlic paste
- Red chilli powder 2 tsp
- Turmeric powder ½ tsp
- Salt 1 tsp or as required
Cooking Rice
- Basmati rice 2 cups
- Salt 1 tsp
- Oil 2 tsp
- Water as required
Instructions
Cooking Rice
- Take two cups rice
- Wash the rice and soak in water for 30 minutes
- Boil water in a pan
- Allow it to boil
- Once it boils add soaked rice, salt and oil.
- Cook for 7-10 minutes till it is just cooked.
- Drain the water and keep the rice aside.
Preparing Chicken
- Cut the chicken as small pieces. Wash and clean the chicken.
- Add ginger garlic paste, salt, red chilli powder and turmeric powder.
- Mix nicely and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
- In big pan take 2-3 tbsp oil.
- Shallow fry the chicken in that till it is nicely roasted.
- Take the chicken and keep it aside.
Preparing Fried Rice
- In the same oil add he finely chopped garlic. If you want you can add 1-2 tsp of oil.
- Once it browns add the cabbage, carrot and capsicum.
- Saute nicely for 3-4 minutes adding salt.
- Now move the vegetables to one side and crack the eggs.
- Scramble the eggs nicely.
- Now add the fried chicken
- Then add Schezwan sauce and pepper powder. Saute nicely for one minute
- Now add the cooked rice and mix.
- Check the seasoning and add salt or pepper please if required
- Add sugar and mix nicely.
- Add the spring onions and mix nicely.
- Schezwan chicken fried rice is ready.
- Serve hot
Notes
Rice should not be over cooked. So keep an eye after 5 minutes. Time taken will differ between different qualities of rice. Mine got done in 7 minutes.
You can boil the chicken or saute with vegetables and cook instead of shallow frying
Adjust the schezwan sauce according to spiciness required.