It’s one of those days when you’re short of veggies or fish and meats to cook yourself a meal. Worse, the stores are closed and so is Swiggy. You therefore choose to set sail on a different route. Moreover, traditional lentil gravies, rice biryanis and elaborate curried fish/meats are overemphasized. Pasta or pizzas anyone? Hell no, these are also done to death in my view.
Deep-fried onions
As there was rice cooking anyway on the stove, and a few eggs sitting in the fridge, I merely fried some – eggs I mean. Onions, which are permanent members of any kitchen, rarely do a disappearing act. Well, I sliced and fried the onions too.
The combination of the three ingredients – rice, eggs and fried onions, reminded me of an Italian “riso“ combination I’d eaten with relish at a street-side cafe in Europe.
The dish was unadorned except for a few Italian sauces served on the table. As for me, it’s possible to have a feast even with just sauces like Marinara, Bolognese for Pesto for company. Quite often I substitute traditional gravies with these Italian sauces. It’s not only delicious but offers a reprieve from cooking time too.
THREE INGREDIENT QUICK MEAL
FRIED ONION RICE QUICK MEAL RECIPE
Ingredients
- ½ cup rice
- 3-4 medium sized onions (thinly sliced)
- 1 egg (fried, sunny side up)
- oIl (for deep frying)
- salt to taste
- Italian sauces (handy ones, of your choice)
Instructions
- Wash rice and boil it in 2 cups of water, with salt to taste.
- Take a small frying pan with a teaspoon of oil, break an egg into it and fry it sunny side up. Wait a couple of minutes before removing the fried egg. Ensure that the underside is crisp before using a silicone spatula to remove the fried egg from the frying pan. (If you remove the fried egg soon, it runs the risk of breaking midway).
- Next, slice the onions and use the same pan for frying them. Use enough oil to dunk the onions to enable deep-frying. Fry till a golden brown, and crisp. Remove when done, and place the onions on an absorbent tissue.
- Take a serving of rice onto a ceramic dish, arrange the deep-fried onions on one side of the rice heap and drape the fried egg on the other side.
Tada, there you have a complete meal! If you like to add another dimension to it, try arranging garlic stir-fry French beans alongside the onion rice, or even a simple three-bean salad could add effect. If not, just get those unemployed Italian sauces from your refrigerator and dress your onion fried rice with them.
Check out my other three-ingredient recipes: Bombay Halwa and Mango Mousse.
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2 Comments
Will try for dinner on a Friday night when I don’t have the energy to cook a proper dinner.
While at it, some fried potatoes or jacket potatoes with sun-dried tomatoes would go along too.
If you have ready fried onions, all the better. The egg yolk must be runny, to help the rice go down.