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Chinese Purple Tomato Fried Rice

DoT’s Thot:  Reminder: Chinese Purple Tomato Homage to Fried Rice

I had some of these beautiful tomatoes on hand a few days ago, when I had the urge to eat fried rice.  I selected my largest slicer and decided to enhance my regular fried rice with this special tomato.  That turned out to be a fantastic idea.  It worked so well and we ate the rice down to every grain that I decided to share this in the review as an idea you might want to try with your special homegrown tomatoes and leftover rice.  Having written about the tomato characteristics on a previous post, I have now written the recipe down for you.

Chinese Purple Tomato Fried Rice Ingredients

Chinese Purple Tomato in Fried Rice Cooking in the Wok

Recipe for Leftover Rice Elevated to a Fine Dish with the Addition of Chinese Purple Tomato

I use my leftover rice, but you can make fresh  rice and then make the fried rice using that.  You can use other varieties of rice, but I happened to have medium grain brown rice leftover from two meals:  about 1.5 cups of steamed brown rice and about the same amount of  saffron buttered steamed brown rice.

• Ingredients Chinese Purple Tomato Fried Rice
  • 3 cups of leftover steamed ice
  • 1 garlic clove sliced
  • 1 -2 tablespoons of olive oil (use lesser amount if your leftover rice has any oil in it, like ny saffron buttered rice)
  • 1/2 cup chopped round onion (I used red, but any will do)
  • 1 cup chopped celery
  • 1/2 cup frozen peas
  • 1 Chinese Purple Tomato (about 8 oz.) washed, cored, cut into wedges and cut wedges in half for nice big chunks
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • a small cup of water (keep it handy to keep rice from burning or getting too dry) Read the rest of this entry »

Day's Harvest of Chinese Purple Tomato 9 July 2009

DoT’s Thot:  Don’t confuse these beautiful red yummy Chinese Purple tomatoes with the genetically modified purple tomato — I was shocked at the eggplant purple color when I found it in a picture on the site cited below.

I tried to find more intormation about the tomato seedling that I bought this year and found very little on it, so decided to make my own notes and go from there.  So here is what I have figured out so far.

Chinese Purple Tomato with Flowers July 9, 2009

Chinese Purple Tomato with Green Tomatoes on the Vine 9 July 2009

Chinese Purple Tomatoes Ripening on the Vine

Chinese Purple Tomato Plant and Tomato Characteristics

The plant is an indeterminate (I) plant and is relatively rare.  This is the first time I had seen it for sale anywhere and was intrigued, since “Chinese” was not too common (lots of other countries I see more often) and “purple” is not a color used very often either.  The tag related that this tomato would have outstanding and sweet flavor, yield 8 to 16 oz. fruits, and was listed as a slicer tomato.

I found the plant to be reasonably vigorous and reasonably productive.  The fruits have a nice shape and develop into a beautiful deep red.  I can see why “purple” in the deepening hues, although I keep thinking that it is more accurately a deep red with some blue undertones.  I did not get super large fruits, but 8 ounce fruits were forthcoming.

Chinese Purple Tomato Homage to Fried Rice

I had some of these beautiful tomatoes on hand yesterday, when I had the urge to eat fried rice.  I selected my largest slicer and decided to enhance my regular fried rice with this special tomato.  Read the rest of this entry »