Chinese tomato and egg stir-fry
- Vegetarian
- Lactose free
- Gluten free
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
- Good for breakfast
- Good for dinner
Less suited for lunch, as a snack.
Gentle Chinese home-style eggs with tomatoes and spring onion; 4 servings without an uncounted side.
4 servingsFinal yield 1,180 g
Ingredients
- 480 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
- 800 gTomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average
- 90 gOnions, spring or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw
- 32 gOil, peanut, salad or cooking
- 12 gSugars, granulated
- 3 gSalt, table
Method
- Cut tomatoes into 2 cm wedges and spring onion into thin diagonal slices. Beat eggs with 2 g salt; measure sugar and the remaining 1 g salt separately.
- Heat a wok to 190 °C, add 20 g peanut oil and move the eggs with a wide spatula for 90 seconds into large soft curds. Transfer eggs to a plate.
- Add the remaining 12 g oil and the white spring onion to the wok. After 1 minute add tomatoes, sugar and 1 g salt and cook 4 minutes, until tomatoes release juice but wedges still hold their shape.
- Return eggs, stir in green spring onion and heat for 60 seconds until eggs are glossy and reach 71 °C in the centre. All oil and tomato juices remain in the served dish.
Recipe tradition
Not yet verified
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 1,188.5 kcal
- Protein
- 69 g
- Fat
- 79.4 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 53.2 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 11.9 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 20.7 g
- Sodium
- 1,898.9 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 4.7 g
Per serving
- Energy
- 297.1 kcal
- Protein
- 17.2 g
- Fat
- 19.9 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 13.3 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 3 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 5.2 g
- Sodium
- 474.7 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 1.2 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 100.7 kcal
- Protein
- 5.8 g
- Fat
- 6.7 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 4.5 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 1 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 1.8 g
- Sodium
- 160.9 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.4 g
Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.
A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.
Calculation limitations
- Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
- The final yield is an editorial estimate.
- The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
- Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
- Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.
Allergens
Contains: Egg, Peanuts
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Food data sources
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal