Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Chef Mireille
Vietnamese Tomato Rice is an easy breakfast dish using up leftover rice with the additions of egg, garlic and tomato paste. Quick and Easy Breakfast recipe.
Vietnamese Red Rice is an easy breakfast recipe with bold flavors that comes together in just minutes, making use of leftover rice.
Do not substitute tomato puree or tomato sauce. It is not as intensely flavored as the paste and the result will be much more delicately flavored and not this traditional version.
Ingredients
- oil
- cooked rice
- garlic
- tomato paste
- chicken bouillon powder
- fish sauce
- eggs
- bouillon powder
- sugar
- salt
How to Make Vietnamese Tomato Rice
- In a wok, heat oil.
- Add garlic and fry for 10 seconds.
- Add tomato paste and fry for a few minutes
- Add eggs and bouillon. Start to scramble them. As soon as they start to firm up, add rice.
- Cook until the rice is well coated with the tomato paste.
- Add fish sauce, sugar and salt.
Cook until the rice is well coated with the tomato paste and heated through.
Notes: Use salt sparingly because there is salt content in the fish sauce. If your cooked rice already has salt, you most likely won’t need to add any additional salt, at all.
Com Da Ca Chua (Vietnamese Tomato Rice)
Ingredients
Instructions
- In a wok, heat the oil.
- Add garlic and fry for 10 seconds.
- Add tomato paste and fry for 2 minutes to cook the paste a little bit.
- Add eggs and bouillon powder.
- Start to scramble them.
- As soon as they start to firm up, add rice.
- Cook until the rice is evenly coated with the tomato.
- Add fish sauce, sugar and salt, if needed.
Love to try this rice , Looks very tempting, in first line, you wrote garlic instead of oil.
Thanks – I fixed it!
Thanks for the tour Mir, I am enjoying your virtual trips around the globe with this simple yet interesting theme..
wow thats an fantastic Vietnamese rice 🙂 looks very inviting !!
Yummy Mir and tomato rice looks mouthwatering
Such a beautiful vietnamese rice, the colour of the dish itself is just inviting me.
That is such a yummy looking tomato rice with just a few ingredients. Will definitely try it out soon. What do you think I can sub fish sauce with — would vegan worcheshire sauce work??
It should be salty and fermented. Maybe try kinchi juice. Or Chinese mushroom sauce
Love the deep color of this dish.
I am not too keen about the fish sauce however that rice is so so inviting. good one Mer. Love the theme too.
Same food, cooked so differently with adding some more extra spice/flavors, i m not sure how the added egg would taste in the rice, it definitely looks appetizing!! 🙂
Hi, the tomato paste you talk about- is this a recipe or it is just a product you buy? if so can I have the recipe or name of the product? Thanks
It’s a basic supermarket item here – usually right next to tomato sauce. Its a very thick tomato concentrate