Fried Eggs and Tomatoes

This recipe is a variation from the previous post.  Meat is omitted but if you wish to have some sweet sausages, then remove brown sugar as the sweet component.

2 more variation to come.  At the meantime enjoy and happy cooking!

4 medium size tomatoes – quartered
1 medium red onion – chopped
4 eggs – lightly beaten

2 sprig spring onions – chopped
2tbsp oil
100 ml water
salt to taste
2 tablespoon oil
1 teaspoon brown sugar

Method: 

1. Heat oil in wok.  Fried the onion until soft before adding the chopped tomatoes.  Fried for 2 minutes.
   
2. Dissolved brown sugar in water then mix with egg.  Pour the mixture  into the wok and sprinkle some salt.  Turn heat down to medium.
   
3. Gently fold edge of the mixture as it cooks.  Keep folding until the eggs mixture is cook.  Plate up and sprinkle chopped spring onions.  Serve hot with some rice.

It is a simple summer dish to relieve Liver Yang Rising manifest as mild hypertension, or a hot day causing heat dizziness.
 

Functions and Benefits:

1. Tomatoes – clears heat, tones yin, produces fluid, and quenches thirst.
2. Red onion – benefits and regulates Qi.
3. Egg – lubricates Dryness, tones Yin.
4. Spring onion – clear heat, and disperse Qi.
5. Brown sugar – tone Middle Burner.

Precautions and Contraindication:

1. Excess consumption of egg is NOT recommended.

If you have any doubt or want to know more about this recipe, contact your TCM practitioner or myself.

Thank you for reading.

Kenny Law
Australia Registered TCM Practitioner.
DISCLAIMER:
Information given are purely for references and it is not intent to diagnose medical conditions or to be used for self-diagnosed. Always consult medical health personnel for proper medical diagnosis.

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