Recipe: Stir fried egg and tomatoes

Stir fried egg and tomatoes. If you've had it, you know why you'd want to make it again and again. If you haven't had it, it may not sound like much. But for many Chinese people, this dish represents home-cooked comfort food, or 家常菜 (jia chang cai).

This dish is one of the most popular home-cooked Chinese dishes but it's not one that's often found at restaurants. I'm wondering if any of you know what the colours of the Chinese Olympic team uniform are. They are red and yellow, representing the national flag. You can have Stir fried egg and tomatoes using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Stir fried egg and tomatoes

1. 1 TSP of cornstarch.
2. 6 of egg.
3. 1 tsp of salt.
4. 1/2 TSP of white pepper.
5. 2 tbsp of rice wine.
6. 1/4 cup of cooking oil.
7. 2 of scallions thiny sliced.
8. 2 of medium size tomatoes, roughly chopped.
9. 2 tbsp of ketchup.
10. 1/4 of tspsugar.

Stir-fried tomato and scrambled eggs (Chinese: 番茄炒蛋/西紅柿炒雞蛋) is a common dish in China. It is usually served as a main course. Because of the simplicity of preparation, it is popular in student canteens. Shakshouka (Arabic: شكشوكة) is a very similar dish eaten in the Levant of the Middle East.

Stir fried egg and tomatoes step by step

1. In small bowl stir cornstarch with 2 tbsp water set a side.
2. In a medium mixing bowl beat the egg with salt and white pepper add the rice wine.
3. Heat 3 tbsp oil in the high heat wok stir fry scallion about 20 second add the egg stir fry until everything eventually cooked and just tender transfer to a plate n set a side.
4. Add the remaining oil add chopped tomatoes to the wok fry until most all of tomatoes has cooked down add the ketchup,sugar, and cornstarch stir around until the mixture has thickened slightly.
5. Add the egg to the wok and stir fry until mixed.
6. Enjoy.

Tomato and egg stir-fry (西红柿炒鸡蛋, xi hong shi chao ji dan) is such a classic Chinese dish that it would feel strange not to write about it. Among the many simple and classic Chinese dishes, this one is the most comforting. It has become a must-have at almost every school and office cafeteria. Eggs, tomatoes, and green onions combine to make this simple and surprisingly delicious vegetarian stir-fry that's a staple in Chinese cuisine. This is one of the most traditional Chinese recipes that happens to be vegetarian.

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