Red Cabbage Fried Rice recipe | Cabbage Biryani recipe with step by step photos and video recipe. Colourful and spicy fried rice recipe. Simple recipe made with cabbage and capsicum. Fried Garlic and cabbage flavour and the colour of the rice makes it so tempting.

This Spicy Cabbage rice recipe is a healthy recipe and a great idea for lunch box for toddlers. Serve this Fried rice with simple onion Raita or amla raita.

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What is Fried RIce? What is Biryani?

To explain it in a simple way, Fried rice is a dish where cooked rice is stir fried with vegetables. Biryani is fully flavoured and seasoned rice cooked with vegetables or meat. Now am in between these two to name this recipe biryani or a fried rice. As i have stir fried the cooked rice with vegetables. Also have cooked the rice with spices to a flavour packed rice as like in dum biryani style.

Also there is a long time doubt for me why do they call this vegetable as red cabbage when its so temptingly coloured purple???. Pls. let me know if you are aware of the answer for my question. 

Red Cabbage Fried Rice recipe – video recipe

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Red Cabbage Fried Rice recipe:

Cabbage Biryani recipe – Pictorial description:

To cook rice:

1. Firstly, lets prepare the rice for the biryani. Boil water in a pan
2. Add cinnamon, cardamom, shahi jeera and bay leaf to it. 
3. Drizzle little oil to the water. Oil is added to make the rice non sticky. 
4. Add lemon juice to the water.
5. Let it come to a rolling boil. Adding salt is in two stages, either you can add salt to the rice itself or in the masala you make. 
6. Soak the basmati rice in water for at least 15 -30 minutes before you start cooking. 
7. Add it to the boiling water. 
8. Give it a good mix and let it cook for 10 minutes in medium flame until the rice is half done. Rice is half done when your are able to break it into half. 

9. Strain and keep it aside to cool completely. You can discard the spices like bay leaf and cinnamon at this stage. To cook masala:

10. Heat oil and add Chopped garlic, chopped green chillies, chopped capsicum and finely chopped onions.
11. Fry for a minute until the onions turn pink.
12. Add chopped tomato
13. saute again for 1/2 a minute. 
14. To this, add the spices, turmeric powder, pepper powder and garam masala
15. Give a good mix until well blended with the vegetables. 
16. Furthermore, very finely chopped red cabbage is added at this stage. 
17. Fry for a minute again just when it starts changing colour and becomes pale, follow the next step. 
18. Salt is added for the vegetables as well for the rice. 
19. Vinegar a little which is optional though. 
20. Tomato sauce is added which is again for the fried rice flavour. either use tomato sauce/ chilli tomato sauce if you want the rice to be more spicy. 
21. Mix well. 
22. Add very little water and let the cabbage get cooked half way. We do not want the cabbage top get cooked until mushy. let the vegetables retain little crunchiness so that its apt for the fried rice taste and texture. 
23. After 5 minutes, add the half cooked rice. 
24. Spread it evenly over the cabbage mix. Need not mix it. 
25. Pour in the saffron milk over the rice. 
26. Close and cook in low heat for 10 minutes or until the rice is done. At this stage, when you feel like the water in the vegetable is not enough, just sprinkle warm water over it and cook again. 
27. Open after 10 minutes when rice is completely cooked but not mushy. 
28. Fluff it up gently until vegetables are combined well with rice. 
29. Optionally, add dry grapes and serve hot with raita.