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Fried Egg Pie

Name: Fried Egg Pie
Cuisine: Ghana
Ingredients: 3 cups of Flour; ½ teaspoon of nutmeg; ½ teaspoon of salt; 1 tablespoon of margarine; 5 tablespoon cold water; 2 tablespoons of oil; 1 bunch onion scallions / onion leaves; 1 can tuna; 8 tablespoons Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix; ½ teaspoon pepper flakes; ½ teaspoon paprika; Salt, to taste; 6 boiled eggs; Oil for deep frying; 2 cups dry long chilies; 1 medium size onion; 1 small piece fresh ginger; 3 garlic cloves; Vegetable oil; 4 tablespoons Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix; 2 whole star anise; Shrimp seasoning stock cube; Salt to taste

Ghana ↗Main Dishes ↗

Most cooks have tried baking pies before. Fried pies, however, are an entirely different delicacy. This creative meal which comes with a dip uses boiled eggs in a completely unique way to create a recipe that is a delicious surprise. Tasty Tom was used to make the sauce for the chunky tuna filling and the pepper dip.

Ingredients: 23
From the kitchen: Ghana

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Preparation

To make pie dough

Combine flour, nutmeg and salt in a bowl and mix well.
Add margarine and rub into crumbly texture.
Add little water and knead to form a stiff dough.
Place in the refrigerator to rest for 30 minutes.

To make chunky tuna sauce for pie filling

Heat oil in a pan and fry onions until translucent then add Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix and 2 tablespoons of water, fry for about 3 minutes.
Add drained tuna and seasoning and continue to fry until sauce in water is evaporated. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
Roll dough and cut into round circles.
Place sauce in the middle of the dough and place egg on top.
Fold over dough and crimp over to fold.
Deep fry pies until golden brown.

Pepper sauce

Blitz chili into chucky shreds and sieve out the seeds by using a colander.
Blitz your onions, ginger and garlic.
Heat one-half cup of vegetable oil and fry out your Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix, for 3 mins, add your blitzed ingredients, spices, seasoning and continuously stir as it cooks for 5 mins. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
Pour your sauce into jars. Enjoy your sauce with fried egg pies.

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Recipe notes

Using Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix gives the pie filling and the sauce an appealing colour, enhanced taste, and great texture

Gives an appealing colour to the sauce

Enhances the taste

Enhances the texture of the sauce (acts as a binder)

Gives an appealing colour to the sauce

Enhances the taste

Adds a smooth touch to the soup (smoothens)

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Nutrition estimate

USDA ingredient data

Partial recipe · included ingredients only

The source does not provide a verified serving count. The summary uses original recipe quantities before any batch multiplier, not per serving. Enter your own serving count in the full label to see per-serving amounts.

Calculated automatically from 8 of 23 ingredients. This is an incomplete subtotal, not the full recipe’s nutrition.

Calories: 1,672 kcal
Fat: 31.6 g
Carbohydrate: 300.6 g
Protein: 40.7 g

Oil assumption: Unspecified cooking oil is estimated as USDA soybean cooking oil. The full measured amount is included; fatty-acid composition can differ with the actual oil type.

Not included: margarine, 1 bunch onion scallions / onion leaves, 1 can tuna, Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix, pepper flakes, Salt, to taste, 6 boiled eggs, Oil for deep frying, dry long chilies, piece fresh ginger, Vegetable oil, Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix, whole star anise, Shrimp seasoning stock cube, Salt to taste.

margarine: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
1 bunch onion scallions / onion leaves: This ingredient has a choice, mixed foods, an unspecified package or an unquantified amount. Review the food and edible grams.
1 can tuna: This ingredient has a choice, mixed foods, an unspecified package or an unquantified amount. Review the food and edible grams.
Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
pepper flakes: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
Salt, to taste: This ingredient has a choice, mixed foods, an unspecified package or an unquantified amount. Review the food and edible grams.
6 boiled eggs: Preparation or edible yield differs from an unqualified food. Review the matching USDA food and edible grams.
Oil for deep frying: Optional ingredients and uncertain retained amounts need a confirmed edible weight.
dry long chilies: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
piece fresh ginger: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
Vegetable oil: No unambiguous numeric quantity is specified.
Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
whole star anise: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
Shrimp seasoning stock cube: No unambiguous numeric quantity is specified.
Salt to taste: This ingredient has a choice, mixed foods, an unspecified package or an unquantified amount. Review the food and edible grams.

Full nutrition label & calculation notes

Nutrition Facts

Estimated subtotal · included ingredients only

8 of 23 ingredients included. Excluded ingredients are not counted in the amounts or % Daily Values.

Servings in original recipe (optional)

Serving count is unknown. Amounts and % Daily Values below apply to the whole original recipe’s included ingredients.

Amount per original recipe

Calories1,672

Estimated nutrition facts for included ingredients only
Amount per original recipe	% Daily Value*
Total Fat 31.6 g	40%
Saturated Fat 5.2 g	26%
Trans Fat Unavailable	—
Cholesterol 0 mg	0%
Sodium 1,180.1 mg	51%
Total Carbohydrate 300.6 g	109%
Dietary Fiber 12.8 g	46%
Total Sugars 5.9 g	—
Includes Added Sugars Unavailable	—
Protein 40.7 g	—
Vitamin D 0 µg	0%
Calcium 105.4 mg	8%
Iron 5.1 mg	28%
Potassium 628.3 mg	13%

Nutrient data notes

A nutrient amount is unavailable when any included ingredient lacks that source value.

Trans Fat: USDA data missing for Flour, Nutmeg.
Includes Added Sugars: USDA data missing for Flour, Nutmeg, Salt, Water, Oil, Paprika, Onion, Garlic Cloves.

* Percent Daily Values use FDA reference values for adults and children aged 4 and over, based on a 2,000 calorie diet. They apply to the amount shown above.

— means no % Daily Value is shown. Trans fat and total sugars have no established Daily Value; protein %DV is omitted because protein-quality data is unavailable. Missing nutrient amounts are not treated as zero.

Daily Value reference: FDA ↗

Ingredients used in this estimate

3 cups of Flour
375 g edible ingredient. USDA portion: 1 cup = 125 g.
Assumes white all-purpose, unenriched wheat flour. Choose a different food for other flour types. USDA source ↗
½ teaspoon of nutmeg
1.1 g edible ingredient. USDA portion: 1 tsp = 2.2 g.
Estimate uses USDA Spices, nutmeg, ground. Quantities refer to edible ingredient weight; brands, varieties and preparation can change the values. USDA source ↗
½ teaspoon of salt
3 g edible ingredient. USDA portion: 1 tsp = 6 g.
Table salt. Coarse, sea, or kosher salt can have different household weights. USDA source ↗
1 tablespoon of margarine
Excluded: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
5 tablespoon cold water
73.934 g edible ingredient. Converted with US volume units from USDA 1 liter = 1000 g.
Water and ice contribute no macronutrients. Unspecified ice quantity is excluded. USDA source ↗
2 tablespoons of oil
27.2 g edible ingredient. USDA portion: 1 tbsp = 13.6 g.
Unspecified cooking oil is estimated as USDA soybean cooking oil. The full measured amount is included; fatty-acid composition can differ with the actual oil type. USDA source ↗
1 bunch onion scallions / onion leaves
Excluded: This ingredient has a choice, mixed foods, an unspecified package or an unquantified amount. Review the food and edible grams.
1 can tuna
Excluded: This ingredient has a choice, mixed foods, an unspecified package or an unquantified amount. Review the food and edible grams.
8 tablespoons Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix
Excluded: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
½ teaspoon pepper flakes
Excluded: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
½ teaspoon paprika
1.15 g edible ingredient. USDA portion: 1 tsp = 2.3 g.
Estimate uses USDA Spices, paprika. Quantities refer to edible ingredient weight; brands, varieties and preparation can change the values. USDA source ↗
Salt, to taste
Excluded: This ingredient has a choice, mixed foods, an unspecified package or an unquantified amount. Review the food and edible grams.
6 boiled eggs
Excluded: Preparation or edible yield differs from an unqualified food. Review the matching USDA food and edible grams.
Oil for deep frying
Excluded: Optional ingredients and uncertain retained amounts need a confirmed edible weight.
2 cups dry long chilies
Excluded: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
1 medium size onion
110 g edible ingredient. USDA portion: 1 medium (2-1/2" dia) = 110 g.
Onions are estimated using USDA raw onions. Red and other onion varieties can differ. USDA source ↗
1 small piece fresh ginger
Excluded: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
3 garlic cloves
9 g edible ingredient. 3 × USDA clove; 1 portion = 3 g.
Raw peeled garlic. A bare count is not assumed to mean cloves. USDA source ↗
Vegetable oil
Excluded: No unambiguous numeric quantity is specified.
Unspecified cooking oil is estimated as USDA soybean cooking oil. The full measured amount is included; fatty-acid composition can differ with the actual oil type. USDA source ↗
4 tablespoons Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix
Excluded: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
2 whole star anise
Excluded: No quantifiable edible weight or reliable USDA food match is available.
Shrimp seasoning stock cube
Excluded: No unambiguous numeric quantity is specified.
Salt to taste
Excluded: This ingredient has a choice, mixed foods, an unspecified package or an unquantified amount. Review the food and edible grams.

Values use ingredient nutrients per 100 g and food-specific USDA portion weights. Cups, tablespoons and teaspoons use US measures. Pinches, handfuls, “to taste” and unspecified package sizes are excluded. Common counted foods use the stated size or a documented standard USDA portion when a count is supplied; these assumptions are identified above. Other unspecified counts remain excluded.

Assumes included ingredients are retained. Cooking losses, drained liquids, discarded oil, alcohol evaporation and changes in water content are not modeled. Missing nutrient values are shown as unavailable, not zero.

Source: USDA FoodData Central. Data retrieved 2026-11-08. These are automatically calculated estimates, not a laboratory analysis.

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