A Taste of Yellow - Sweet Corn Fried Rice
Monday, May 7th, 2007Filed Under Recipes, Rice Or Biryani
May 16th is LiveStrong Day, a day to raise awareness about cancer survivors organized by Lance Armstrong Foundation. There are many ways to get involved, Barbara of WinosAndFoodies has organized a blog event for us food bloggers to be a part of this day. This brave lady is a cancer survivor herself, and she has urged the food bloggers to cook an yellow dish to show our support and to spread the word about LiveStrong Day.
LIVESTRONG Day is the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s (LAF) grassroots advocacy initiative to unify people affected by cancer and to raise awareness about cancer survivorship issues on a national level and in local communities across the country. LIVESTRONG Day 2007 will occur on Wednesday, May 16.
This simple yellow fried rice with sweet corn and turmeric is my entry for Barbara’s Taste of Yellow event. Turmeric, contrary to popular belief is used for its medicinal values rather than as a taste enhancer in Indian cooking. Turmeric is a strong antiseptic and has excellent antibacterial properties. In India, turmeric is also used as a cosmetic, a face mask made of fresh turmeric paste is supposed to make your face glow! Consuming turmeric also helps in the beauty department by cleansing the body of toxins and reducing water retention, leaving you with a slim and toned body.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup cooked Basmati rice
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced onions
- 1/2 tsp minced garlic
- 1/2 cup fresh or frozen sweet corn
- 1/4 cup green peas
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/4 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- salt to taste
Method
In a shallow pan, heat the oil and saute the onions and garlic till brown. Add the turmeric powder and coriander powder and saute for a minute.
Add the corn and peas and saute for a few minutes till the vegetables are cooked.
Add the lemon juice and salt and mix well.
Now add the cooked rice and mix to combine. Saute for a minute or so to let the liquids dry.
Serve hot with any spicy curry.
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Lovely recipe for a great cause. Loved your lil’ write up on turmeric, its the “cure everything” on the counter top in an Indian kitchen. I often apply turmeric on any zits or skin allergies, boy, does it help!
Great going SIG!!!!!! The rice is nice and simple….. and corn is my fav!!
great recipe nice and colorfull Sig…
sig, this is one simple but most prettiest rice dish. what is the background? i am just going gaga over the presentation. it makes food more appealing. great write up btw!
Amazing collection of wonderfully presented recipes Sig,Love all of them :)…
Well presented and the photo is appealing. Nice recipe. Viji
Rice dish looks yelowly lovely.
What is Indian cooking without turmeric right? If I cook meat dishes I have to wash it with turmeric to cleanse it first.
Love the color of that rise dish,it is yellow!Corn Pulav is my fav too:))
really yummy looking fried rice. Have not tried corn in fried rice. Will try adding next time
so sig didn’t sneak any non-veg into this one? lol. looks gorgeous.
Picture perfect and I can eat this one too! Love the green parsely and red tomatoes against the yellow!
that’s one pretty pulav, sig
colors & texture blending so well, Yum!! I usually use the pressure cooker, but I guess this way the grains really stay apart. My contribution is turmeric based as well 
thanks
I could totally eat this for lunch RIGHT NOW!! Looks delicious and a great entry!
That’s one great looking yellow dish…a great entry…
Sig, I had a good laugh last midnight reading your comment and I was literally visually you sitting there infront of the laptop and screaming and Siv rushing across :))) I was actually too tied up last week and did not have anything for this week’s post and that was something I could whip up in a jiffy and had I not posted it y’day, I am sure, I would have been the one screaming :)))
hey this corn fried rice looks quite colorful and neat presentation too
but I’m not a lover of sweet corns 
Shn
Very nice picture. Looks Yummy
Too Good Recipe Sig..excllent pic too ..very colorful too …too good on the writing part also …
Beautiful picture Sig. I tried adding corn only once. Will have to try this dish sometime.
Musie I mean Thin Garfield :), yeah turmeric is the best… I wrote all that but don’t really use it for anything other than cooking, guess I should start…
Coffee , Thanks… I love corn too…in everything.
Reena thanks girl, it is just my serving platter…no special background
Roopa, Bharathy, Viji, thanks for your kind words
Indo , never heard of washing meat in turmeric, I sometimes marinate the meat in curd and salt and wash it off to remove the smell. Turmeric is new to me, does it help to remove the smell or is there another purpose?
Asha, hehe yeah it is yellow isn’t it? I started with an ordinary corn fried rice, then I thought it may not be yellow enough hence the addition of turmeric, and it made it really yellow
Pravs, try corn in rice, it is a yummy combo.
Bee, lol, yeah didn’t add any non-veg this time, not even chicken stock, though we had it with a side of mutton curry.
Nandita ,
thanks sweetie, yeah this time kept it pure vegetarian for all my veg friends out there.
Richa , waiting for your turmeric dish, I first completely forgot about turmeric when thinking of an yellow dish
Freya, Sunita Thanks
Shn, lol it was really the second time you made me scream… the first was when we both made meen pollichathu the same weekend, hope to make you scream sometime soon
. Ah you don’t like sweet corn… really? It is so yummy!!!
Lata, thanks and welcome!
Deepa thanks, I was going to make a Mango pudding to combine your AFAM and the taste of yellow, but there were too many mango dishes floating around this weekend, so changed my mind at the last minute.
Ur mango entry is coming up soon.
Shilpa , if you have tried once you will know how good the corn and rice combo is… I love the taste of sweet corn!
Beautiful dish Sig! It looks so delicious, I love the golden color. I had no idea tumeric had antiseptic properties, just learned something new.
A very nice recipe for a great cause.. simple yet deliciously healthy..nice presentation also Sig.
I usually clean chicken, fish, even mutton with turmeric powder and water, removes the bacteria, I have seen this done my mom and I kind of follow. It is precisely because of the antiseptic properties of turmeric.
Hi sid,
Simple but still a very eligant recipe.Love the presentation.Would like to know what was those which you have used at the side.Looks really great
Amy, Sushma thanks!
Indo , that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!
Dr.Soumya, you mean Sig right :). Those are kumquats and parsely leaves.
beautiful recipe for great cause. whenever i hear turmeric one thing which flashes in my is vicko turmeric ad;) he he he…
by the way is that plum tomato served with rice or something else? looks very pretty:)
Sia, lol I remember those Vicko ads, that tune is playing in my head now… :).
BTW those are kumquats, a recipe using those coming out tonight…
Thanks Sig for your Taste of Yellow entry. It looks wonderful and tumeric is a cancer fighting food.
oh thats a lovely one for yellow. nice pics. will bookmark this recipe.
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hey it turned out to be really YUMMY!!!! Kudos for coming up with such an easy-to-make dish and tasty dish. everyone in our house loved it! Thanks.. keep up the good work!!