Low-carb Chinese Egg Dishes

Eggs are an excellent source of protein and essential nutrients. These authentic low-carb Chinese egg dishes make a quick, inexpensive, nutritious meal, whether for breakfast or lunch. Like most Chinese home cooking, these are delicious and efficient, combining multiple ingredients in a simple, single dish.

My personal favorites are the pork egg rolls, which are easier to make than they appear, and the scrambled eggs with spinach. All are delicious. When you are pressed for time, these egg recipes offer a fast and healthy meal.

Each recipe listed here is less than 20 grams carbohydrate per serving. Most dishes can serve 2 to 4 people. (The egg pancake recipe easily yields enough to fill the bellies of four people.)

Low-carb Chinese egg dishes

1

Scrambled Eggs with Spinach

This is a healthy and quick breakfast or brunch dish, full of protein and iron. Blanch the spinach after rinsing thoroughly, scramble the eggs and set aside, then saute the green onions and blanched spinach for a few seconds before adding the eggs to combine and finish.

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2

Pork Egg Rolls

What do you think of pork and eggs? This is a nice combination, do you want to know what kind of cuisine we can create using these two ingredients in Chinese food? Today we will be making pork egg rolls. This is a simple but complex dish. Why is it simple? Mainly because it is minced pork rolled in egg, similar to an omelet. However, preparing the meat and rolling the omelet into an egg roll does require a bit of skill. We start by mincing the meat with a knife. You can skip this step if you have ground pork on hand. If you make this dish well, you will definitely gain a lot of fans. The taste of the egg roll with pork is light and salty, there is absolutely no spiciness or bitterness at all. In China, this is a popular dish. I hope you like it.

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3

Scrambled Eggs with Garlic Chives

Scrambled eggs with garlic chives is a common recipe in the family because it is simple to cook and requires few ingredients. So, for home-cooked lunches, people are willing to cook scrambled eggs with garlic chives as one of their lunch dishes. This recipe uses jiǔ cài (韭菜), which are also called Chinese chives, garlic chives, Chinese leeks, or Oriental garlic. The flavor is more like garlic than chives. The leaves are strap-shaped, with a triangular base, and not tubular like scallions, green onions, or Western chives.

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4

Breakfast Egg Pancakes

In China, we usually eat steamed buns, fried dough sticks, and soy milk for breakfast. Of course, each region also has its own special breakfast variety.Today we’re going to make a breakfast egg pancake. Flour and eggs are the main ingredients, and the ingredients used in this recipe are all healthy. So you can try to make such a breakfast for the family, if you have a pan, it will be simpler,

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5

Chinese Long Beans and Scrambled Eggs

Today I’m making a simple dish: Chinese long beans and scrambled eggs. This economical dish stretches two healthy ingredients to feed a small family, and is easy to prepare. Chinese long beans are rich in vitamins and dietary fiber and are low in calories. Cook beans thoroughly before eating. Beans are legumes, and most beans contain lectins that can have toxic effects (this is true of chickpeas, soybeans, lentils, navy beans, kidney beans, and many others). When making Chinese long beans and scrambled eggs, we will first fry them in a little oil until they change color, then add water and simmer them until the water cooks off. Once this part is done, we can add the eggs and stir-fry to scramble them with the beans.

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6

Scrambled Eggs and Onions

There are many egg recipes on My Chinese Home Kitchen, because eggs are a common ingredient in Chinese family kitchens. Today we are adding a simple and healthy scrambled eggs and onions recipe.In this recipe, I used onions and eggs because I had some onions left over from my last dinner. This simple combination allowed me to save some food in the fridge while still making a dish. Red onions are a very healthy ingredient, containing quercetin and antioxidants. Eggs are an excellent source of omega fatty acids and protein. So scrambled eggs and onions is both simple and healthy.

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7

Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes

My friend’s mom comes home from work and she needs to cook lunch, but she’s tired, she doesn’t want to cook some complicated dishes, she just wants to have lunch right away. So she opens the fridge and she sees the eggs. Oh, and she immediately decided she was going to make an egg dish. She usually makes eggs with green peppers or tomatoes. Take out 4-6 eggs and some green peppers or tomatoes to make a lunch dish. Today we share my friend’s moms recipe for scrambled eggs with tomatoes, because her daughter, my friend, loves eggs with tomato!

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