Vegetable Fried Rice

                              We have this drive in restaurant 'Arthi drive-in' next to my college,in Madurai.We used to go there once in a while,like to celebarate the end of our semester exams or sometimes we had a couple of hours before we really had to go home or in some cases, just had some couple of hundreds left that we couldn't figure out what to do.You don't go in there be expected to eat the same old idli or dosai.I wont say they had the best indo-chinese food(I've had some amazing asian food later on),but it was and still is one of the memorable one I've had.Looking at the strange menu they had,trying to figure out what is what, and finally some thing just comes and sits in front of you.You dont care what it is made of or how its made,it tasted great.And ofcourse,sometimes you wish you could have ordered your friend's dish, instead of your horrible mess.It was fun.I wish I could go back there again, with all those people,and share the same laughs one more time.May be we will one day.

Ingredients :

• 1 cup basmati rice
• 1 white onion,chopped lengthwise
• 1/2 capsicum,chopped lengthwise
• 1/2 carrot,3 or 4 strings of beans,chopped lengthwise
• 3 or 4 mushrooms,cut
• 1 tsp soy sauce
• 2 eggs
• couple of onion leaves(scallion)
• oil,salt and pepper

Procedure :

1. Clean the basmati rice and cook it in an electric cooker.Then spread it out on a plate and let it cool down.
2. In the meantime,heat 3 tbsp of oil in a pan and put all the cut veggies into the oil and let them cook for 7 mins.Be sure not to burn the veggies,keep them moving around in the pan.
3. Now,push the veggies to one corner of the pan,and bring the oil to the middle by slightly tilting the pan.If necessary add a bit more oil.Now crack the two eggs in the oil and scramble them.Make sure it doesnt get mixed into the veggies.
4. Once the eggs are cooked completely,then stir the veggies in.
5. Now add soy sauce,salt and pepper and blend everything together.
6. Finally,add the cooked rice and mix well.Once the rice is mixed completely,its ready to be served.

Trivia :

Use any other method to cook  the rice.Just make sure it doesnt get overcooked. 

You can also add cabbage,peas and broccoli .