"Simple" is the word

Its funny how sometimes just such simple everyday ingredients that we use to cook can add that much needed and exciting extra zing, flavor to the daily kind of boring food menu. So the way it unfolded was that our helper Grace had made sauteed baby spinach with Garlic and chicken with some dry chilli's ..I wanted to have rice , but not plain boiled rice..there started the issue. I didn't know what I wanted to do with the rice,  but wanted it to look yum, have some beautiful colors and go with the overall food on the table. Taste a lil Indian and not very local hawker center type of food. Can you believe it, this is just rice and look at the fuss!

In Naina's shortcut language, I opened fridge, saw , took out and sizzlllleed the rice with the first 3 things that came to my hands..

I like to call it- Bose's version of ginger rice.

I took some grated ginger which was religiously kept ready for my chai, took one bird eye red chilli also know as Thai red chilli hot and spicy, and some chopped coriander leaf.

I simply put the boiled rice in a bowl , put a pan on the fire, added some oil, tossed in some salt, cumin seeds, chopped/grated ginger, thai chilli and coriander , threw it up in the air like a seasoned chef and Voilà, this is what it turns out as ..

 Even Andy who is currently on a no carb, healthy diet ... digged in !