Tomato Stir-Fry with Crispy Fried Egg
番茄炒蛋
Egg is fried into loose crisp pieces before being combined with diced and chunky tomatoes in a lightly thickened sauce.
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Ingredients
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- 3–4eggs
- 2tomatoes
- garlic
- as neededsalt
- 1 spoonfultomato sauce (番茄酱)
- 1 spoonfullight soy sauce
- a littlechicken bouillon
- a littlestarch slurry
- scallions
- cooking oil
Spoonfuls retain the Chinese recipe measures 勺/匙. Small and large spoonfuls retain 小勺 and 大勺; their volume is unspecified and is not converted to teaspoons or tablespoons.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- 01
Beat the eggs. Heat a generous amount of oil and drizzle in the egg in batches, stirring continuously with chopsticks to make loose fried pieces. Fry for 1 minute, lift out and press off excess oil.
- 02
Finely dice one tomato and cut the other into larger pieces. Heat oil separately and fry garlic.
- 03
Add diced tomato and salt and cook until juicy. Add fried egg, larger tomato pieces, tomato sauce, light soy sauce and chicken bouillon.
- 04
Add a little starch slurry, toss together and finish with scallions.
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Tomato Stir-Fry with Crispy Fried Egg
Egg is fried into loose crisp pieces before being combined with diced and chunky tomatoes in a lightly thickened sauce.
Ingredients
- 3–4eggs
- 2tomatoes
- garlic
- as neededsalt
- 1 spoonfultomato sauce (番茄酱)
- 1 spoonfullight soy sauce
- a littlechicken bouillon
- a littlestarch slurry
- scallions
- cooking oil
Spoonfuls retain the Chinese recipe measures 勺/匙. Small and large spoonfuls retain 小勺 and 大勺; their volume is unspecified and is not converted to teaspoons or tablespoons.
Method
- 01
Beat the eggs. Heat a generous amount of oil and drizzle in the egg in batches, stirring continuously with chopsticks to make loose fried pieces. Fry for 1 minute, lift out and press off excess oil.
- 02
Finely dice one tomato and cut the other into larger pieces. Heat oil separately and fry garlic.
- 03
Add diced tomato and salt and cook until juicy. Add fried egg, larger tomato pieces, tomato sauce, light soy sauce and chicken bouillon.
- 04
Add a little starch slurry, toss together and finish with scallions.
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