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Fried rice with mustard greens

A simple fried rice dish made using mustard greens (sarson ka saag) that you can easily grow in a pot on your window sill.
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Ingredients
  

  • 1 xbd cups rice cooked , separated with a fork
  • 2 tsps olive oil
  • xbd tsp cumin seeds
  • 4 cloves
  • 1 onion medium , sliced
  • 1 carrot , cut into matchsticks
  • xbc cup spring onion sliced greens
  • xbc tsp turmeric powder
  • xbd tsp red chilli powder
  • xbc tsp garam masala powder
  • xbd tsp salt
  • xbc cup mustard sliced greens

Instructions
 

  • Heat the oil in a wok. Splutter the cumin seeds and cloves, in hot oil.
  • Add the onion slices, carrot sticks and spring onion greens. Saute on low flame for 3 minutes, till onions and carrots are soft and greens have wilted.
  • Mix in the spice powders, salt and stir till the spices uniformly coat the vegetables.
  • Add the rice to the wok with the mustard greens. Stir well for a minute till rice is heated through and ingredients are well mixed.
  • Serve hot with yogurt and a sweet mango pickle.

Notes

Note:
This is a great way to use up left over rice. You can use any kind of greens such as kale, collard greens, radish greens to add a bit of bitterness to the rice instead of mustard greens.