Tomato is both a vegetable and a fruit. It is a major dietary source of the antioxidant, lycopene, which has been linked to many health benefits including risk of heart disease and cancer. It is also a great source of Vitamin C (essential nutrient in the repair of tissues), potassium (helps regulate fluid balance, muscle contractions and nerve signals), folate (needed to make red and white blood cells in the bone marrow, convert carbohydrates into energy, and produce DNA and RNA) and Vitamin K (plays a role in blood clotting, bone metabolism, and regulating blood calcium levels).I am sure at any one time, we would have tomatoes in our refrigerator. We can use them to make tomato egg, tomato pork, curry, tom yum soup, ABC soup, pasta sauce and so on or to eat them fresh in our salad. Have you tried making Tomato Rice? If you have not, give it a try and you will see how tasty it is.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups cooked rice
- 2 large eggs
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 large tomatoes
- 2 tbsp tomato sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1-2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 stalk green onion or more
- Cooking oil
Method:
- Cook some rice so that you will have 2 cups of it for frying.
- Wash and chop the garlic.
- Wash and dice the tomatoes.
- Wash and cut the green onions into 1 cm long.
- Heat up a wok with some cooking oil.
- Break 2 eggs into the wok and fry them and break them up. Scoop them up when cooked and set them aside.
- Add some cooking oil and saute the garlic.
- Add the tomatoes. Press the tomatoes until they are all mashed up. Add a bit of water to the tomatoes if they are too dry. (Note: this is a slightly wet fried rice.)
- Add the rice and stir it until it is evenly mixed with the tomatoes.
- Add tomato sauce to the rice and stir.
- Add oyster sauce to the rice and stir.
- Season the rice with light soy sauce (to taste).
- Add the eggs back to the wok. Stir.
- Add the green onions. Stir.
- The Tomato Rice is ready to be served.