This is an extremely popular street food in Mumbai and available in almost all college and office canteens. A mixture of precooked noodles and rice are tossed with spicy Indian style Schezwan sauce with vegetables and served with a soy sauce based gravy and topped with fried noodles.
Course
brunch, Main Course
Cuisine
Indo chinese
Keyword
chinese fried rice, fried rice, noodles recipe, schezwan sauce
Prep Time30minutes
Cook Time20minutes
Servings3persons
Authorindrani
Ingredients
Recipe Ingredients
Schezwan sauce (Indian style) make ahead and store
5 to 6Kashmiri chilies
8 to 10spicy red chilies
1tbsplocal sichuan peppertirphal
1shallot chopped
2tbspchopped garlic
3 to 4tbspof oil
1tbspvinegar
Salt to taste
1tbspsugar
1tbsptomato ketchup
Main ingredients
1cupboiled rice
1packet boiled noodles
1onion sliced
8 to 10garlic finely chopped
1carrot cut into strips
1bell pepper cut into strips
1cabbage shredded
Beans cut into slits
2tbspschezwan sauce
2green chilies chopped
1tbspcelery stalk finely chopped
Gravy
1onion sliced
2garlic crushed
1tbspsoy sauce
1tbsptomato ketchup
1tbspschezwan sauce
1tbspcayenne pepper
oil 1 tbsp
1/2cupwater
2tbspcornflour dissolved
1tbspspring onion chopped
Instructions
Preparations
Making Schezwan sauce
Soak the chilies in warm water for at least an hour and boil them till tender
Strain them and separate the water.
Roast the local Sichuan peppers or tirphal
Grind the chilies and Sichuan peppers into a smooth paste.
Heat oil, fry onions and garlic and celery
Add the paste and cook till rawness disappear
Add salt ,vinegar and sugar to taste
Add tomato ketchup and simmer in oil
Then cool this mixture and again grind into a smooth paste
Store in refrigerator
Noodles and rice
Boil noodles
Par boil rice
Fry onion garlic and celery
Add veggies ,fry on high flame
Add the noodles and rice and fry on high flame
Add the Schezwan sauce
Mix with a ladle
Add salt and sugar to taste
Sprinkle spring onions and green chilies
Gravy
Fry garlic, onion
Add soy sauce and chili sauce
Add the corn starch slurry and cook
Sprinkle spring onions
Fried noodles
Heat oil in the pan
Fry the boiled noodles till crispy in batches
Assemble
Arrange the rice and noodles
Make a well in the middle
Pour the gravy or keep a bowl in the middle with gravy in it.