Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Creative Sunday. Today, I want to show y'all how I prepared tasty fried rice with low-low money. I call it low budget fried rice.

The first thing I want to let you all know is that I prepared this yummy dish with 500 naira only. Also, the only major thing I didn't buy is my rice and groundnut oil but every other ingredient in my rice (except Maggie cubes, salt, red pepper, onions, curry/kitchen Glory spices) was afforded with just N500.

My ingredients for this delicious looking meal are:

• Rice - 3 cups
• Carrots
• Green pepper
• Green beans
• Pepper
• Spices (Curry powder, kitchen Glory)
• Tumeric for colouring.
• Crayfish
• Groundnut oil
• Maggi cubes
• Salt
• Water

Step 1:

I started my cooking by Washing my rice and boiling it. The essence was just to parboil it. Before this, I had prepared all my ingredients. I cut the carrot, green beans, green pepper and onions and kept it away for when I'd need it.

Step 2:

I rinsed my pot and placed it on the fire. I made sure it was dry and then I added my groundnut oil just enough to cook 3 cups of rice.

Note:

The normal procedure of fried rice requires cooking the rice with all the ingredients except groundnut oil. When the rice is ready, you heat up your oil and fry the rice in little proportions. But I didn't go through this method because it's a low budget kind of fried rice.

Back to my recipe:

I heated up my oil and added my onions, pepper, a tiny part of the carrot, green beans, maggi cubes, curry powder and kitchen Glory spices. I stirred them together and fried them for a while then I added water and left it for a few minutes to boil.

Step 3:

When the water boiled, I added my tumeric for colouration. I allowed it to boil and mix evenly then I added my crayfish, another maggi cube and salt, then I poured my rice into the pot, stirred it a bit and allowed it to cook.

Step 4:

I kept checking to make sure it's properly softened and dry. When I was sure of this, I added the remaining part of my carrot, green beans and green pepper. I left it for just a minute because I didn't want to over cool them, then I stirred properly and my low-low money fried rice was ready!

The advantage of cooking fried rice using this method is that it saves time. You don't have to start frying rice bit by bit after it's ready.
It saves oil. Frying rice in bits after cooking consumes a whole lot of oil compared to just starting off your cooking with frying your ingredients with oil and adding water to continue your cooking.

Summary:

Is sapa holding you? You are not financially buoyant enough to buy fried rice at standard eateries? With less than 1k you can prepare a fried rice which is much more delicious than the coloured thing you eat outside 😁 Do this and thank me later!
Below are my blurry attempt to snap with my ingredients for proof that I cooked this myself but the pictures are unclear because there was no power supply then. I apologize.

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