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

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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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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