DISH RESEARCH · Rice dish
egg fried rice
Chinese home-style rice with egg, green onion and salt.
About egg fried rice
This egg fried rice is Chinese home-style dan chao fan. Maggie Zhu’s version centres on cooked white rice, beaten eggs and green onions, with peanut oil as the selected cooking fat.
Egg and rice supply the main savoury flavour, supported simply by salt. Green onions add freshness and the peanut oil contributes the author’s preferred nutty note.
The rice grains remain separate, with scattered soft egg pieces and lightly golden, crisp surfaces. It is served hot as a side or a light main meal.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Peanuts, Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
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Ingredients in egg fried rice
Maggie Zhu’s plain Chinese home-style egg fried rice.
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Peanut oil: Peanuts. Named source peanut-oil branch selected; no refining/protein-absence assurance
- Eggs: Egg
- Cooked white rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Ready cooked rice; upstream cooking recipe not supplied
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
Origins & food traditions
The author describes this as a Chinese home dish from her Beijing childhood.
Countries
- China
Cuisines & regions
- Chinese Cuisine
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.