Indian-Style Fried Rice - Pinch Of Nom (2024)

• 5MINS
• 15MINS
• Serves 2
• 248KCAL

For the full list of ingredients and comprehensive instructions, please see the recipe card at the end of this post. Before you scroll, there’s important stuff to know in the blurb!

The perfect accompaniment to any Fakeaway, this Indian-Style Fried Rice is super easy to prepare and cook and has all of the great tastes of India.

This recipe is suitable for vegan and vegetarian diets – result! – but if you’d prefer, you could add some chicken or even turkey to turn it into a complete, filling meal. As always, the spices in this dish can be tailored to suit your own personal tastes and preferences, so feel free to get creative and have a go at making your own flavour combinations!

We love our Indian-Style Fried Rice served with some chopped coriander sprinkled over the top and a squirt of fresh lime juice, but this is completely optional!

What diets is this Indian-Style Fried Rice suitable for?

This recipe is suitable for vegan, vegetarian, gluten free and dairy free diets.

Please make sure to double or triple check all of your ingredients if you’re cooking for people with allergies.

Do you need any special ingredients to make Indian-Style Fried Rice?

You should be able to find everything you need to make this dish in your local supermarket. If you’d prefer, you could replace the ground coriander, garam masala, ground ginger and chilli powder with a teaspoon of a korma spice mix and a teaspoon of a tikka spice mix.

You could also add chicken or turkey to the dish and turn it into a complete meal in itself. Have an experiment and make it your own!

How many calories are in this Indian-Style Fried Rice?

There are 248 calories in each portion of our slimming friendly Indian-Style Fried Rice. This means it falls into our Everyday Light recipe category.

This recipe is perfect if you’re following a calorie controlled diet, and fits well with any one of the major diet plans such as Weight Watchers.

As a guide, an average man needs around 2,500kcal (10,500kJ) a day to maintain a healthy body weight. For an average woman, that figure is around 2,000kcal (8,400kJ) a day. Obviously, if your goal is to lose weight then you might want to adjust these slightly! You can read more about these recommendations on the NHS website.

What should you should serve with this Indian-Style Fried Rice?

Any of the following go really well with Indian-Style Fried Rice. It can also be eaten as a meal in itself!

Can you cook this Indian-Style Fried Rice another way?

This dish is super quick and easy to make. It isn’t really suitable to make using an alternative method.

If you wanted to, you could cook the rice fresh rather than using already cooked rice – you’d just need to add 10-15 minutes onto the overall cooking time to allow for the rice to cook first.

How do you know when this Indian-Style Fried Rice is cooked?

You should cook this Indian-Style Fried Rice until the vegetables are softened and the rice has completely heated through. This should take around 30 minutes on the hob.

Standard advice here in the UK is to cook food until it has reached 70°C and stayed at that temperature for 2 minutes. This is to keep your family safe.

How long can you keep this Indian-Style Fried Rice in the fridge?

Once you’ve put it out, ideally you should eat it within an hour.

If you allow any leftovers to cool, make sure to refrigerate in a container with a lid and chill. You can keep leftovers of this Indian-Style Fried Rice in the fridge for a day.

As we all know you can get food poisoning from eating reheated rice, but, it’s not actually the reheating that can cause issues, it is, in fact, the way that the rice has been stored beforehand where the problem begins.

Rice can contain spores that are resistant to heat and can survive the cooking process.

If cooked rice is left standing at room temperature these spores can grow into bacteria. At this point, the bacteria can be destroyed by reheating the rice thoroughly.

You should remember to do the following if you’re going to keep leftover rice:

• Cool the rice as quickly as possible (ideally within one hour) then put it in the fridge immediately. You can split larger portions up into smaller batches to cool quicker.
• Reheat and use any leftover rice (stored in the fridge) within one day.
• When you reheat any rice, always check it is steaming hot all the way through.
• Don’t reheat cooked rice more than once.

Can I freeze this Indian-Style Fried Rice?

Yes you can! This recipe can be frozen, but please remember to do the following;

• Freeze it as soon as it is cold enough.
• Use a container or bag that is suitable for freezing.

Don’t forget to add a label with what it is, and on what date you put it in the freezer!

As when keeping rice in the fridge, make sure to do the following if you plan to freeze it:

• Cool the rice as quickly as possible (ideally within one hour) then freeze it immediately. You can split larger portions up into smaller batches to cool quicker.
• Freeze as soon as the rice is cold.
• When you reheat any rice, always check it is steaming hot all the way through.
• Don’t reheat cooked rice more than once.

How do I reheat this Indian-Style Fried Rice?

From chilled: Place in a microwave proof container with loosely fitting lid and heat for 4-7 minutes until piping hot.

From frozen: Allow to defrost, and heat covered in the microwave for 3-5 minutes then stir. Cook for a further 5-7 minutes until piping hot.

For more information about reheating rice please take a look at the NHS website.

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Indian-Style Fried Rice

This Indian-Style Fried Rice recipe is slimming friendly and sooo tasty – a great Fakeaway accompaniment if you’re counting calories or following a plan like Weight Watchers!

• Gluten Free
• Vegetarian
• Dairy Free
• Vegan
• Freezable

• Prep Time

  5 MINS

• Cook Time

  15 MINS

• KCals 248
• Carbs 52G