Fluffy, filled with veggies and cooked shrimp topped with a light savory sauce! Egg foo young is a Chinese omelette with eggs and shrimp or pork! It typically uses leftover veggies but I like to use bean sprouts and shredded carrots!
This is a recipe that typically uses up leftover veggies with added shrimp or pork. Think your usual breakfast omelette, but with an asian twist especially with the sauce on top! Topped with sesame seeds and green onions, two of my staples!
Chinese Egg Foo Young (Egg + Shrimp Omelette)
Fluffy, filled with veggies and cooked shrimp topped with a light savory sauce! Egg foo young is a Chinese omelette with eggs and shrimp or pork! It typically uses leftover veggies but I like to use bean sprouts and shredded carrots!
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 6 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
- 2 cups bean sprouts chopped
- 1/2 cup shallots sliced
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 oz chopped prawns or 4 oz minced meat
Sauce
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/2 cup vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon mirin
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mix together cornstarch, vegetable broth and soy sauce.
- Add into a saucepan along with the rest of sauce ingredients; oyster sauce, mirin, sesame oil and garlic powder. Simmer for 1 minute on low heat until thickened, then remove from heat.
- Whisk eggs together in a bowl. Add in soy sauce, bean sprouts, diced yellow onions, shallots and salt and pepper. Mix in chopped prawns.
- Preheat pan to medium heat with 1 teaspoon sesame oil and pour in 1/2 cup portions. Repeat with remaining egg mixture, adding more sesame oil as needed.
- Plate with sauce drizzled on top along with sesame seeds + green onion garnish!
Anonymous
Why are there no measurements for half of the recipe ?
Winnie Kison
Sorry, just made the changes!
Anonymous
I just made this omelet for breakfast. It was so good and very easy to make. I didn’t have bean sprouts so I used finely chopped celery and onion with a little bit of shredded carrot. My husband kept raving about how good this was. I loved it too. There’s just 2 of us so I only used 4 eggs. I will definitely make this again. It’s a keeper. Thank You for this great recipe.
Winnie Kison
i’m so glad to hear you and your husband liked it! 🙂 it’s such a simple recipe and our family loves it too!
S Burg
Just made this. Excellent recipe and so very easy to make. The gravy was perfect and just the right addition to the sticky rice and egg foo young when it was served.
Used 6 eggs and I kept thinking it wasn’t enough but I was wrong. I should have cut it down to 4……but we did the 6 eggs justice!
Thanks for posting this quick, easy and very tasty recipe. I’m giving this recipe a 5 star rating and will be checking your site for other recipes to try.