Taste the Flavors of Prawn Fry Egg
Prawn fried egg is one of the most traditional Hong Kong home cooking dish. With only 3 main ingredients in this dish, the umami of prawns, smoothness of eggs and freshness of yellow chives is perfectly combined to give delectable flavors.
How to make perfect Prawn Fried Egg?
When preparing this dish, timing is an important factor to consider. First, given that prawns need at least 5-8 minutes to be completely cooked while eggs need only 1-2 minutes, therefore, prawns should be cooked completely beforehand.
Secondly, in order to get the “lava-like” half-cooked scramble egg texture, the cooking process of egg have to be quick (Within a minute). We can use high heat to heat up the oil then turn to low heat immediately after pouring the egg into pan.
Prawns Fry Egg (Hong Kong Ha Yan Fry Egg 蝦仁炒蛋)
Ingredients
Main Ingredients
- 60 g Prawns
- 3 pieces Eggs
- 2 bunch Yellow Chives
- 2 tbsp Oil
Marinades
- ½ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Sugar
Seasonings
- ½ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Sugar
Instructions
- Prepare all ingredients.
- Dry and marinate the prawns. Cut the yellow chives into length of 2cm.
- Beat the eggs and add all seasonings into the beaten eggs.
- Heat the pan with 1tbsp oil, add yellow chives and then prawns. Fry the ingredients until they are completely cooked.
- Lift the fried ingredients up and put them into the beaten eggs.
- Heat the pan again using high heat with 2 tbsp of oil. Add the beaten egg and all ingredients back into pan.Tips: Once added all the ingredients into the pan, immediately turn the heat to low heat or even turn it off. This step ensures the egg get slowly heated until 70%-80% done which can keep the scumbled egg smooth and tender.
- Yay~ You can enjoy it now!
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