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Chinese Tomato and Egg Noodles

Name: Chinese Tomato and Egg Noodles
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 4 eggs; 200 g dried flat rice noodles; 350 g ripe tomatoes; 2 spring onions; 2 cloves garlic; 10 g fresh ginger (optional); 15 ml soy sauce; 1 tsp caster sugar; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 tsp sesame oil; Salt, to taste; Ground white pepper, to taste (optional)

Soft scrambled eggs folded through a savoury tomato sauce and tossed with rice noodles.

Total: 15 min
Hands on: 15 min
Serves: 2
Method: hob
Cuisine: Chinese

Per serving · estimated

Energy: 640 kcal
Protein: 22 g
Fat: 24 g
Carbs: 80 g

Freshly cooked Chinese Tomato and Egg Noodles

Method

Step 1 of 10
Boil a kettle of water, pour it over the rice noodles in a bowl and leave them to soften.
- Dried flat rice noodles
7 min
Step 2 of 10
Cut the tomatoes into rough dice.
- Ripe tomatoes
Step 3 of 10
Mince the garlic and ginger and slice the spring onions, keeping green and white apart.
- Garlic
- Fresh ginger
- Spring onions
Step 4 of 10
Beat the eggs with a pinch of salt until evenly yellow.
- Eggs
- Salt
Step 5 of 10
Heat half the vegetable oil in a wide pan over high heat.
- Vegetable oil
Step 6 of 10
Pour in the eggs and push them into soft folds, cooking until set to 71 °C, then tip them onto a plate.
- Eggs
71 °C / 160 °F2 minEggs and egg dishes (quiche, frittata) to 71 °C / 160 °F
Step 7 of 10
Add the remaining oil, then the garlic, ginger and spring onion whites, and stir until fragrant.
- Vegetable oil
- Garlic
- Fresh ginger
- Spring onions
1 min
What ‘ready’ looks like
Step 8 of 10
Add the tomatoes, sugar and soy sauce and cook until the tomatoes collapse into a loose sauce.
- Ripe tomatoes
- Caster sugar
- Soy sauce
4 min
What ‘ready’ looks like
Step 9 of 10
Drain the noodles and toss them through the sauce with the sesame oil.
- Dried flat rice noodles
- Sesame oil
Step 10 of 10
Fold the eggs back in, season with white pepper and scatter over the spring onion greens.
- Eggs
- Ground white pepper
- Spring onions

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