Eggs are a familiar and easily available part of our diet, and this nutritious food can be turned into many tasty dishes. Recently a popular foreign recipe has added a new dimension to home cooking: Chinese tomato egg scramble. It is a very familiar home-style dish in China and is now becoming quite popular in Bangladesh too.

It combines soft scrambled eggs with the mild sweet-sour taste of tomatoes and usually tastes best with hot rice. As nutritious as it is quick to make, it can be an ideal meal for busy lives. If you want something tasty from simple ingredients in little time, try this recipe. Here is how to make the viral tomato egg scramble.

Break the eggs into a bowl, add a little salt and beat them well with a fork. Heat a little oil in a frying pan and pour in the beaten eggs. Scramble them softly over a low flame, then take them out and set aside, taking care that they do not dry out too much.

In the same pan, add more oil as needed, then add chopped garlic and chopped onion. Fry until the onion is soft and lightly golden. Then add the tomato pieces, with a little salt, soy sauce, ketchup, sugar and green chillies. Keep cooking slowly until the tomatoes soften and thicken like a sauce.

Now add the scrambled eggs to the tomato mixture. Mix well and cook over a low flame for one minute so that the eggs and sauce blend together nicely.

Before taking it off the heat, sprinkle over a little ground black pepper and chopped coriander leaves. Serve the Chinese tomato egg scramble piping hot with roti, paratha or rice.

Source: Jagonews24. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.