The Wok: Chinese Scrambled Eggs With Tomato | Kenji's Cooking Show
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Published 2022-06-12
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This recipe is similar to the one from my new book, The Wok: Recipes and Techniques.
Here's the Wang Gang video I mentioned: • 厨师长分享："番茄炒蛋"的6种做法，多种口味做法适合各类人群，吃腻了换一种...
Here's a great article on scrambled eggs and tomato by my friend Francis Lam (paywall): www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/magazine/the-stir-fried…
All Comments (21)
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Dog: "he has that thing on his head. Treat time! 🐶"
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Taking me back to my childhood, watching Yan Can Cook on PBS. He always said 'Hot wok, cold oil: Food won't stick'.
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I love that you're not super strict with ingredients and go "this is just what I had" for the tomatoes, and acknowledge substitutions in general and that not everyone wants to go out and buy one specific thing for a dish, it makes cooking a lot less intimidating! Often when I watch some cooking vids I end up going "I do not have these very specific ingredients and I don't know if I can substitute them"
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Request: I would actually like to see a mostly uncut video of you seasoning your wok. For a lot of people, including myself, the seasoning process is something that's intimidating to do that's why we shy away from cooking vessels that require seasoning.
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Literally had this yesterday 😂 I like to add some ginger to it too since it plays well with the tomatoes, and finish with the tiniest amount of sesame oil at the end. Thanks for the video!
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This brought back a ton of memories for me: my dad used to make this all the time, often with whatever leftovers/other foods we had with us like onions and/or pork belly. I haven’t thought about it for a long time, and now I’m definitely craving some again. Thanks for the recipe Kenji!
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The meal looks absolutely spectacular. Thank you for sharing this with us.
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Awesome. I liked how you discussed the wide-ranging love for tomatoes and eggs. Turkey and the Middle East are great places for it. There's the menemen, but there's also hard boiled eggs with fresh tomato. Other examples I'm too tired to recall. (I'll skip that cilantro.)
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I've been eating this for breakfast every day this week, obsessed with it!
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To everyone never tasted this: Try it. It's so easy and unbelievable tasty. Haven't had it in quite a while so thannks for reminding Kenji. It's on this weeks mealplan now :D
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by far one of my favorite breakfasts. thank you for showing a no nonsense version everyone can enjoy.
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The use of ketchup is super good for getting that uber tomato flavor, especially when most people don't have access to fresh, ripe tomatoes (those supermarket tomatoes are bland af). My mom uses tomato paste instead of ketchup to reduce the sugar content in the dish, especially if you're already using about a teaspoon of sugar in the dish to sweeten it. She does it for her egg tomato soup as well as egg tomato sauce with noodles!
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Yeh I make these all the time and yes the secret sauce is ketchup. Reason? For me it gives the darker red color for the sauce and also vinegar in the ketchup kinda brightens up the flavor. It all depends on the tomato itself. Taste the tomato first and you’ll know how much sugar to add. Awesome recipe!
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Such a simple dish but so divine, my mouth was watering watching this!
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i´ve cooked it yesterday, that dish is truly amazing. love it.
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One of my favorite parts about this dish is how scalable it is/how easy it is to make 1 serving.
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I've been cooking this since you made it and it's just so great. I make it all the time now. It's so simple and so much flavour
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Holy smokes, just tried cooking this and it was a banger! Also it's super easy! Loved that 'little bit of these little bit of those' style recipes.
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Gotta love this more regular posts, it's good to see you teach some easier/faster to cook recipes as well! :)
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I like that you're using a brand new wok for this!
