Rice with vegetables in a frying pan

Rice with vegetables in a frying pan is not pilaf or rice porridge, but a tasty independent dish or side dish, which has some peculiarities in its preparation. Any vegetables are suitable for rice, and the dish is often supplemented with meat products. Simple cooking and availability of ingredients allows the housewife to diversify her home menu and cook rice in a frying pan according to any recipe.

Crispy rice in a frying pan with vegetables

Crispy rice in a frying pan, complemented with various vegetables, will be a simple and elegant dinner or a side dish for meat, and by changing the set of vegetables, the taste of the dish will be new each time. In this recipe, so that the rice crumbles and is not porridge, we fry it together with vegetables and then simmer for a little while. Rice with vegetables does not need additional seasonings. The usual proportion of rice and water is 1:2.

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   Rice with vegetables in a frying pan is very easy to prepare.Peel and rinse the vegetables for the dish immediately. Some vegetables can be taken frozen. Cut the onion into small cubes. Grind the carrots on a coarse grater.
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   Cut the green beans into medium pieces.
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   Cut the sweet pepper into strips.
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   Heat olive oil in a frying pan and fry carrots and onions until soft. Then add the chopped peppers to them and fry for a couple more minutes. Rinse the rice several times in cold water, add to the vegetables and stir-fry until the grains are saturated with oil and become transparent.
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   Then add chopped green beans and green peas to the frying pan, add salt and black pepper to your taste, and mix everything.
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   Carefully pour 300 ml of boiling water over the side of the frying pan, close everything tightly with a lid and simmer the rice and vegetables over low heat for 20 minutes. There is no need to stir the dish anymore. Turn off the heat and keep the rice covered for another 10 minutes.
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   Place the crumbly rice with vegetables cooked in a frying pan onto serving plates.
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   Rice with vegetables in a frying pan is ready! Decorate the dish to your liking and you can serve it for dinner. Bon appetit!

Rice with chicken and vegetables in a frying pan

Rice with chicken and vegetables in a frying pan will be both an alternative to pilaf and a quick dish for dinner or lunch. You can cook with any parts of chicken, but in this recipe we use chicken fillet. Any rice is suitable for this dish. For vegetables, add carrots, onions and sweet peppers, which will make the dish juicy.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet – 200 gr.
• Rice – 1 tbsp.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Sweet pepper – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Water/broth – 2 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately prepare all ingredients according to the recipe and the number of servings you need.

Step 2. Peel and rinse the vegetables. Cut the onion into small cubes.

Step 3. Chop the carrots with a knife or grater. Cut the pepper into the same cubes as the onion.

Step 4. Rinse the chicken fillet with cold water, dry with a napkin and cut into medium cubes or cubes.

Step 5. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the chopped vegetables in it. Then add the fillet pieces and fry it while stirring with a spatula for a couple of minutes.

Step 6. Rinse the rice several times with cold water and blot off excess moisture with a napkin. Pour it over the fried ingredients. If desired, the rice can be fried a little.

Step 7. Then sprinkle these ingredients with salt and black pepper to your taste and pour in 2 cups of boiled water or broth. Cover the pan tightly with a lid and simmer the rice over low heat for 30 minutes. There is no need to stir the ingredients while stewing.

Step 8. Stir the rice with chicken and vegetables cooked in a frying pan, take a sample and serve for dinner. Bon appetit!

Chinese rice with egg and vegetables

Chinese rice with egg and vegetables, like all dishes of this cuisine, is easy to prepare and is similar to a hot salad and pilaf at the same time, but the taste is completely different. The basis of the dish is cooked rice with a fried egg, and any vegetables can be used. It is better to cook rice in a wok pan and in a mixture of oils - flaxseed, sesame, peanut, then the taste will be unique.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Long grain rice – 500 gr.
• Red onion – 1 pc.
• Sweet pepper – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Green peas – 40 gr.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
• Soy sauce – 1 tbsp.
• Paprika – 1 tsp.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately prepare, according to the recipe, all the ingredients for the dish. Rinse the rice thoroughly and boil until done. Peel and rinse the vegetables.

Step 2. Cut the onion, carrots and pepper into thin strips. Heat vegetable oil in a wok pan and quickly fry the chopped carrots and onions for 2 minutes. Then add green peas with chopped sweet pepper and fry for another 2 minutes.

Step 3: Whisk the eggs and fry them in another pan while stirring, like scrambled eggs.

Step 4. Add cooked rice to the wok with the fried vegetables, mix with the vegetables so that there are no small lumps left and fry everything for 3 minutes. Then add the fried eggs, add salt, black pepper and paprika, pour in soy sauce, stir again and turn off the heat after a minute.

Step 5. Transfer the cooked Chinese rice with egg and vegetables to serving plates and serve, adding Chinese seasonings. Bon appetit!

Rice with vegetables and shrimp in a frying pan

Rice with vegetables and shrimp in a frying pan is an Asian dish, and there are no strict recipes for its preparation, but any ingredients, and especially vegetables, can be added. In this recipe, we take frozen shrimp, carrots with sweet peppers and add an egg with soy sauce, which will be Asian style.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Frozen shrimp – 300 gr.
• Long grain rice – 1 tbsp.
• Water – 2 tbsp.
• Garlic – 2 cloves.
• Sweet pepper – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Chili pepper – ½ pod.
• Soy sauce – 5 tbsp.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Greens - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, prepare all the ingredients for the dish according to the recipe. Thaw and clean the shrimp. There is no need to boil them.

Step 2: Peel the garlic. Finely chop the hot pepper. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, transfer the pepper and add the garlic cloves crushed through a garlic press.

Step 3. Rinse the rice as for pilaf and boil until tender in a 1:2 ratio with water. Immediately salt the rice to your taste.

Step 4. Peel and wash the carrots with sweet peppers, preferably red. Cut the vegetables into thin strips or cubes.

Step 5. Add the chopped vegetables to the fried garlic, stir and fry over high heat while stirring for 3 minutes.

Step 6. Add cooked rice to the vegetables and mix everything.

Step 7. Then place the peeled shrimp into the frying pan.

Step 8. Pour soy sauce over the rice along with the shrimp and mix everything again.

Step 9. Make a hole in the middle of the rice with a spoon, break a chicken egg into it and immediately stir all the ingredients vigorously to distribute the egg evenly. Fry the rice for a few more minutes.

Step 10. Lastly, add chopped herbs to the dish and turn off the heat.

Step 11. Arrange the rice with vegetables and shrimp cooked in a frying pan beautifully on portioned plates.

Step 12. Decorate it to your liking and you can serve it on the table. The dish turns out to be self-sufficient, so it is not necessary to supplement it with various additives. Bon appetit!

Vegetable risotto with vegetables

An option for a tasty and low-calorie rice dish in a frying pan can be vegetable risotto. It has a different cooking technology compared to pilaf: the broth is added to the rice as it evaporates, which makes the taste of the rice different. Rice for the dish is chosen with a high starch content, and the sets of vegetables can be different. The final touch to vegetable risotto should be hard cheese.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Polished round rice – 200 gr.
• Onion – 3 pcs.
• Leaf celery – 2 stalks.
• Garlic – 3 cloves.
• Tomato – 1 pc.
• Sweet pepper – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Meat broth – 500-700 ml.
• Greens for serving - to taste.
• Hard cheese for serving - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare the ingredients for vegetable risotto according to the recipe. Peel and rinse the vegetables.

Step 2. Chop the onion, celery and bell pepper very finely. Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the chopped vegetables in it, adding them one at a time, for 3-4 minutes.

Step 3. Add chopped garlic to the fried vegetables and add well-washed rice. Fry the rice while stirring until translucent.

Step 4. Then pour the meat broth into the frying pan in portions with a ladle and cook the rice over low heat under a covered lid, adding the next portion after the previous one has boiled away. In this way, simmer the rice with vegetables until fully cooked.

Step 5. Peel the tomato, pour over boiling water and finely chop.

Step 6. Transfer the tomato to the already prepared rice, add salt and black pepper to your taste, mix everything and turn off the heat after a couple of minutes.

Step 7Grind a piece of hard cheese on a fine grater, preferably Parmesan. Finely chop the greens. And mix with cheese.

Step 8. Divide the vegetable risotto cooked in a frying pan into portioned plates, sprinkle with cheese and herbs and serve the dish. Bon appetit!

Rice with meat and vegetables in a frying pan

Rice with meat and vegetables in a frying pan is prepared quickly, easily and will be a good dinner for a small family. In this recipe we use pork, but you can choose other meat. From vegetables to rice with meat, add onions and sweet peppers. Fry the meat with onions, and then add sweet peppers with rice, and in half an hour the dish will be ready. To make the rice crumbly, take steamed or long-grain rice.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Pork pulp – 200 gr.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Sweet pepper – 2 pcs.
• Rice – ½ tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Curry – 1 pinch.
• Bay leaf – 1 pc.
• Boiling water – 300 ml.
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Rinse the pork and cut into small pieces. Heat three tablespoons of vegetable oil in a deep frying pan and fry the pieces of meat over high heat until golden brown on all sides.

Step 2. Peel the onion, cut into small cubes, add to the meat and fry over high heat until lightly browned.

Step 3. Peel the sweet pepper, cut into large pieces and place in a frying pan.

Step 4. Rinse the steamed rice a little with cold water and add to the rest of the ingredients. Pour 300 ml of boiling water over rice with vegetables and meat, add salt, a pinch of curry, bay leaf to your taste and mix everything.

Step 5. Close the pan with a lid and simmer the dish over low heat for 25-30 minutes.During this time, the rice will absorb all the liquid and turn out crumbly.

Step 6. Transfer the rice with meat and vegetables cooked in a frying pan onto portioned plates, and serve the dish hot, sprinkled with any fresh herbs. Bon appetit!

Rice with frozen vegetables in a frying pan

Rice goes well with vegetables in any version, and a set of frozen vegetables allows the housewife to quickly prepare a dish in a frying pan at any time. A Mexican mixture consisting of carrots, sweet peppers, peas, corn and beans is perfect for rice. Blast freezing of these vegetables preserves all their beneficial properties, and the dish turns out delicious.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Set of frozen vegetables – 500 gr.
• Rice – 250 gr.
• Water – 250 ml.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 1 clove.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. The dish cooks quickly, so immediately prepare a simple set of ingredients according to the recipe. Frozen vegetable mixture can be taken with any composition.

Step 2. Heat a dry frying pan a little over medium heat, pour frozen vegetables into it and fry a little.

Step 3. Rinse the rice, add to the fried vegetables, add salt and any seasonings to your taste. Instead of salt and seasonings, you can add soy sauce to the rice.

Step 4. Then add hot water to these ingredients in a 2:1 ratio to rice. Add butter cut into pieces.

Step 5. Close the pan with a lid. Simmer the rice over low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.Place rice cooked in a frying pan with frozen vegetables onto portioned plates, add herbs and serve as a side dish or as a separate dish. Bon appetit!

Rice with mushrooms and vegetables

Rice with mushrooms and vegetables is prepared as a side dish for meat and fish, or as a main dish for a Lenten table, and cooking in one pan allows you to do everything simply and quickly. In this recipe we use fresh champignons, but any mushrooms are suitable, especially dry ones. Let's complement the neutral taste of the champignons with ketchup and soy sauce, soak the rice to cook faster, and take onions and carrots from the vegetables.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Rice – 1 tbsp.
• Champignons – 400 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Ketchup/tomato sauce – 100 gr.
• Soy sauce – 3 tbsp.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.
• Water – 2 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Rinse the rice several times and add water while the mushrooms and vegetables are fried.

Step 2. Peel the champignons, rinse and cut into pieces of any shape.

Step 3. Heat two tablespoons of vegetable oil in a frying pan and place the sliced ​​mushrooms into it.

Step 4. Peel the onions and carrots, rinse and cut into thin cubes.

Step 5. Fry the champignons until golden brown and the mushroom juice has completely evaporated.

Step 6. Add the chopped vegetables to the mushrooms.

Step 7. Sprinkle these ingredients with salt and black pepper or other seasonings to your taste. Stir-fry the vegetables for a few minutes.

Step 8. Drain the soaked rice and place it in a frying pan.

Step 9. Then use a spatula to mix everything well.

Step 10. Add ketchup or tomato sauce to the rice.

Step 11Mix these ingredients again.

Step 12: Pour two cups of hot water into the pan.

Step 13. Lastly, add soy sauce to the rice and stir.

Step 14. Simmer the rice under a closed lid over low heat for 20 minutes. During this time, it will absorb all the liquid and become crumbly.

Step 15. You can serve the cooked rice with mushrooms and vegetables to the table, beautifully transferring it to portioned plates. Bon appetit!

Thai fried rice with vegetables

The option for preparing Thai fried rice with vegetables, unlike Chinese fried rice, involves using only Thai jasmine rice, that is, the “Jasmine” variety and olive or peanut oil. This dish is often complemented with chicken or shrimp. In this recipe we cook Thai rice with only a set of vegetables and an egg. Boil the rice and add soy sauce and roasted peanuts to the taste of the dish.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Jasmine rice – ½ tbsp.
• Green peas – 2 tbsp.
• Brussels sprouts – 5 pcs.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Milk – 2 tbsp.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 3 cloves.
• Peanuts – 1 tbsp.
• Soy sauce – 1 tbsp.
• Peanut oil – 2 tbsp.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Cheese cheese - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Boil the Jasmine rice in advance until done. Immediately prepare the remaining ingredients according to the recipe. Cut the onions and carrots into small cubes. Finely chop the garlic. Fry the peanuts in a dry frying pan.

Step 2. Heat peanut oil in a frying pan and fry the chopped carrots and onions in it over high heat.

Step 3. Towards the end of frying, add chopped garlic to them.

Step 4. In a bowl, use a fork or whisk to mix the egg and milk.

Step 5.Pour 1 or 2 tablespoons of soy sauce into the frying pan with the fried vegetables, then you don’t need to add salt.

Step 6. Then add the cooked rice to the vegetables, stir and fry for 1 minute.

Step 7. Pour the egg and milk mixture over the rice.

Step 8. Then immediately add green peas to the rice, add the Brussels sprouts cut into halves, and mix everything vigorously. Cover the pan with a lid and cook the dish over low heat until cooked.

Step 9. Taste the finished dish, add salt and black pepper if necessary.

Step 10. Place the prepared Thai fried rice with vegetables on portioned plates, sprinkle with fried peanuts and cheese and serve the dish. Bon appetit!

Fried rice with carrots and onions

Fried rice with carrots and onions will be a simple and tasty side dish for any meat or fish dish, and on fasting days it will be a hearty meal on its own. In this simple recipe, we will complement the taste of fried rice only with fresh dill, without various seasonings, which will make an ordinary side dish unusual.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Rice – 1.5 tbsp.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Dill – 1 bunch.
• Salt - to taste.
• Vegetable oil – ¼ tbsp.
• Water – 3 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Rinse the rice in a colander thoroughly under cold running water and leave for a couple of minutes until all the liquid drains away.

Step 2. Peel and wash the onions and carrots. Cut the onion into small cubes and chop the carrots on a fine or medium grater.

Step 3. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the chopped onion in it until soft.

Step 4. Add the grated carrots to the onion, stir and fry for another 5-7 minutes.

Step 5.Then add the prepared rice to the vegetables and fry it while stirring with a spatula for 3-4 minutes, so that the rice is saturated with oil and becomes transparent.

Step 6. Pour three cups of boiling water over the rice. Add salt to your taste and stir again. Cook the rice over low heat and do not cover the pan with a lid.

Step 7. Wash the bunch of dill and finely chop it.

Step 8. Cook the rice until all the liquid is completely absorbed and until cooked.

Step 9. Then add the chopped dill to the rice, stir, simmer for another 1 minute and turn off the heat.

Step 10. Close the pan with a lid and leave the rice for 20 minutes, which will make it crumbly.

Step 11. The cooked fried rice with carrots and onions can be served. Bon appetit!