Yellow Fried Rice
yellow rice is very flavorful and aromatic with great blend of spices. Turmeric adds the vivid golden color to the rice. Yellow rice is quick, and easy to make. This goes great with soup, and salad or as a side dish with any meal.
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice, I am using basmati rice
- 1/2 cup green peas
- 2 cupa water
- 3 tbsp oil
- 1/8 tsp asafetida hing
- 1 tsp cumin seeds jeera
- 1 tsp mustard seeds rai
- 4 whole red chilies
- 2 bay leaves tajpat
- 1 inch piece cinnamon stick
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp turmeric haldi
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Wash rice gently and soak it for at least 15 minutes prior to cooking.
- After cooking rice expands to about three times in volume, so be sure to use the proper size pan. Drain the rice and put into the saucepan. Add the water, green peas, 1 teaspoon of oil, and salt, bring to a boil and turn the heat to low, and cover the pan.
- Cook about 15 minutes, or until the rice is tender and the water has evaporated. Turn off the heat and fluff the rice with a fork.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium high. Test the heat by adding one cumin seed to the oil; if seed cracks right away oil is ready. Add asafetida, cumin seeds, and mustard seeds. After the seeds crack, add red chilies, bay leaves, and cinnamon stick and stir-fry for few seconds.
- Add rice, turmeric, and cayenne pepper to the spices in frying pan. Mix it gently. Stir-fry for about 5 to 6 minutes.
Notes
Serve hot with soup, dal or yogurt.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
I was wondering why the turmeric doesn’t get added at the beginning while the rice is cooking. Does it give a different flavor if heated in the frying pan? What is the reason why it is added at the end? I did love the recipe though. Thank you Namaste
Thanks Majula ma’am you are my teacher, I love cooking and that’s because of you.
Nikhil Bollapragada, Thank you
how to make lemon rice….
Ingredients
*.Lemon Juice – 15 ml or 3 tbsp
*.Plain Rice – 2 cups
*.Roasted Ground nut – 1/4 cup
*.Green Chilly – 2
*.Dry red chilli – 1
*.Ginger – 1 tbsp [finely chopped]
*.Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
*.Mustard seed – 1 tbsp(
*.Bengal gram – 3 tbsp
*.Urad Dal – 1 tbsp
*.Peppercorn – 1 tbsp(optional )
*.Curry leaves – 1 spring
*.Asafoetida – 1 tsp
*.Salt to taste
*.Oil – 3 tbsp
Preparation Method
*.Boil rice & spread over the plate to cool.
*.Heat pan, pour oil and put mustard seed and let it splutter.
*.Then add Bengal gram, urad dal, Peppercorn, green chilli, dry red chilli, ginger, turmeric powder, roasted ground nuts, Asafoetida and curry leaves saute.
*.Add cooked rice, salt & mix well.
*.Now mix the lemon juice mix well
*.Pour Gingely oil mix well & cut off heat serve hot.
Manjula, dear, I love this rice! And it’s so simple to make! Thank you for all your hard work, and please keep posting the recipes!
Brilliant recipe. THANK YOU
thank u for ur wonderfull recipes, i enjoy coming to ur website, looking forward to try this recipes as well,’best regards
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Dear Manjula,
I am not Indian, but a wife of Indian, so I had to learn to cook Indian dishes. We live in a faraway country of Georgia (former USSR). I am using your recipes to cook almost all the dishes, except, of course, meat ones. Thank you very much. Such a great site, easy and tasty recipes. My husband loves everyhting I cook as well as entire family and friends
With your recpies I became known in our town as one of the best housewifes and cooks. :)) In the past I used to invite friends to our home, now it is vice versa – they call and ask to come for an Indian dinner. :))
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Respecfully,
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Namaste Aunty,
today i tried to make yellow rice, and it came out very well, my husband loved it very much. Aunty your recipes make my cooking really easier and tastier.
Thanks a lot
Hi,
Thank you for all your wonderful recipes.
Is, the the chilli you use in this recipe dried, or can I use fresh chilli’s?
Thanks 🙂
WHAT IS TURMERIC? IN PORTUGUESE OF BRASIL, PLEASE. tHAKS FOR ATTENCION. : )
Lise, turmeric might be “curmuma” in Portuguese. It’s a yellow powder that adds color to the food. Does that sound right?
Lise,
‘Turmeric” é cúrcuma.
in portuguese turmeric is called curcuma.
I made this rice exactly how you made it for my husband and myself. We LOVED it! It was great! Thank you for the education!
Manjulaji,
I really love all of your recipes I tried yet!
Just like the other recipes, the yellow fried rice is surprisingly easy and quick. I really enjoy it every time I make it.
Only thing is, the rice becomes sticky with me, although I follow every step exactly and use desi basmati rice too. Normally I like sticky rice, but here I’m doing something wrong I guess… ;-P
Cheers,
Simi.
OK, problem solved! 😉
I used double polished rice, now I’m using the basmati from the Indian grocer. That gives longer and more separate grains. Polished works fine now too with using less water.
I made some yellow rice with your video. No Cayenne Pepper, so I added just red pepper powder. Used ordinary white rice since I had no Basmati rice. Yet my family loved it. They ate all I made, so it must have been good.
Thanks for the video.
Wesley = lankapaul in You Tube
i seldom cook, my first time exploring Indian fare, was easy and yummy!! i’m excited to try more recipes! my family liked it very much! namaste
Aboslutely delicious:)
Namaste Aunty,
Many thanks for sharing you methods of preparing so many wonderful dishes. You presentation is outstanding and so easy to fallow. I have now made this particular recipe three times and each was a great success. Once again thank you for your gift of sharing such delightful recipes. Wishing you peace,love, happiness and good health.
dear manjula aunty i am currently cooking the yellow rice it is boiling with the peas i just want to tell u that i love ur recipies keep on going i know that there are lots of people who admire and i want to tell u i am one of them have a good day 🙂
you are great!!so simple and yummy receipes and I have tried it is delicious.
Hi Manjula, I just want t know why do u add oil while preparing lemon rice & yellow rice ?
Kausar, some people add oil to help keep the rice grains from clumping together when it’s done cooking. You can put oil or not put oil, whatever works well for you.
manjulaji you are great. thank you for the good food that i & my family
enjoy with your recipe.
thanks
manjula aunty
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all ur recipes are really gud and tasty..and i love ur website as u have supported all recipes with a video….thank u…we always look forward to ur new recipes…i have tried several items frm ur site and my husband likes al of them…i m happy 🙂 thanku once again…
Namaste Manjula
Many many thanks for the information you have given me about Indian food. I am so very glad that I have found your website. You explain everything in wonderful detail. I can’t wait to try some of your receipes. Hope all is well. Again, many many thanks.
Just made this and it tasted great! Thanks for the recipe!
Namaste Manjula.:) My name is Tamilla, I am from Simpferopol, Crimea, Ukraine. Found Your site by chance. Thank you for this recipe. Made it today on dinner for all family. Honestly, it was my first succesful rice dish. Everybody was delight. Thank you very much. 🙂
Hello masam,
Pls recommend some side dish for this rice ma’m.
Made this tonight to go with some left over split pea soup – Excellent!
Seems like this would be a great way to use left over rice as well.
Thanks
Hello auntyji,
thank you very much for all the recipes…. i prepared it the way u did… and it came out really good…. yummy dishes!
can u plz let us know how to prepare cakes without using eggs…
Thanks&Regards
Rohini
wow, that looks soooo good. Today i will make some too. I am going to make it the way u made them because my rice always get stuck together.Thank you : )
Hello Aunty
I love ur recipes…. easy simple n tasty tooo…..
Can you please tell me how to cook vegetarian Fried Rice… ?
Thanks
Dear Mrs. Manjula,
I have gone through your videos. It is very nice of you to put these videos which makes it very easy for us to watch and prepare the dishes.
I tried your Gajar ka halwa which turned out very good. Also tried Aloo Paratha & Gobhi Parathas. Too good.
I have one request – can you show on video how to prepare veg hakka noodles?
I have tried to make them but somehow the noodels become soft after adding veggies & sauces.
Please try and put this video. Thanks in advance.
Your yellow was truly very very nice.
Hi,
Thanking you for posting this recipe, I loved it! My husband’s family is from Gujarat, they do this dish slightly different but i really love this version. I’m so glad I found your site, I’m looking forward to trying many of your recipes. Love you site!
So what other dishes go with this rice?
If i wanted to make dinner, what else can I cook and serve with the yellow rice?
do samosas go with it?
hi manjula aunty!! i have tried couple of your recipes and it turned out really gud, i just wanna quick question about this recipe, can i use red chili powder or paprika instead of cayenne pepper??
Hello Mithily, eather one will be fine
This dish is easy to prepare and packed with flavor. Delicious! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for taking the time to publish all the vegetarian recipes.
I make a lot of these rice dishes with left over rice. Just skip the water part of the recipe because the rice is already cooked.
namaste aunty how r u? aunty u r great .you give this recipe is so easy and u change orignal look totally diffrent .and its looks nice also.today i try this .did i do this same thing with left over rice?