Fried Rice with Eggs and Turmeric

This Fried Rice with Eggs and Turmeric is an easy and delicious recipe, that you can make with leftover rice. This is a recipe that uses the rice from your fridge, that you didn’t know what to do with. And now you know. 🙂

Ingredients:

• 250 g of leftover rice
• 1 carrot
• 1/4 of a bell pepper
• 1/2 a stalk of lee
• 1 zucchini
• 1 clove of garlic
• 150 ml of vegetable stock or water
• salt and pepper
• 1 teaspoon of ground turmeric
• 2 eggs
• olive oil

• 2 tablespoons of chopped parsley

Prepare the vegetables. Wash and chop the leek, zucchini, bell pepper, garlic and the carrot.

In a large pot heat the olive oil and saute the vegetables for 5 minutes.

Season with salt, pepper, and turmeric. Add 150 ml of water or veggie stock, put the lid on and cook the vegetables for 10 minutes until they’re soft on low heat.

When the vegetables are soft and cooked through, pour in the rice and stir everything to combine and to heat up the rice. Add the parsley as well. Be sure to add the fresh parsley because it adds a delicious flavor to the dish.

Lastly, move all the veggies and the rice on one side, and crack in two eggs. Scramble them in the pot and then, mix them with the rice.

Serve the dish immediately.

Fried Rice with Eggs

Yield: 2 servings

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

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Ingredients

• 150 g of leftover rice
• 50 g of frozen or fresh peas
• 2 carrots, I use some baby carrots and 1 bigger carrot
• 1/2 a stalk of celery
• one onion
• salt and pepper
• 2 eggs
• olive oil
• parsley leaves

Instructions

1. Prepare the vegetables. Wash and chop the onion, slice the carrot and the celery.
2. In a big pan heat the olive oil and saute the vegetables, onion, carrots, celery and peas.
3. Season with salt and pepper. Add 1/4 a cup of water, put the lid on and cook the vegetables for 10 minutes until they're soft.
4. In the meantime, in a bowl beat 2 eggs. When the vegetables are cooked through, with a spoon move them to one side of the pan, add the eggs and scramble them.
5. Mix the eggs with the vegetables and then mix everything with the rice.
6. Season again if it's necessary and add some fresh parsley leaves. Dinner's ready. 🙂

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