Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chinese tea egg!. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Huge Selection of Chinese Herbs, Herbal Formulas and Teas. Which leads me to this soft Chinese Tea Egg recipe. I was looking to emulate the method that the Japanese use to boil eggs for ramen.
Chinese tea egg! is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chinese tea egg! is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chinese tea egg! using 26 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese tea egg!:
- Get Half a dozen eggs
- Prepare 3/4 cup medium soy sauce
- Make ready 1/4 cup dark soy sauce
- Get 1 tsp fennel seeds
- Take 1 stick cinnamon
- Take 2-3 star anise seeds
- Take 1 tbsp brown sugar
- Get 1 tsp Szechuan peppercorns
- Get 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp green tea leaves
- Make ready 1 tea bag
- Make ready Salt
- Get Black peppercorns
- Get Half a dozen eggs
- Make ready 3/4 cup medium soy sauce
- Get 1/4 cup dark soy sauce
- Get 1 tsp fennel seeds
- Get 1 stick cinnamon
- Take 2-3 star anise seeds
- Get 1 tbsp brown sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp Szechuan peppercorns
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Take 1/2 tbsp green tea leaves
- Make ready 1 tea bag
- Prepare Salt
- Take Black peppercorns
Tea egg is a typical Chinese savory food commonly sold as a snack, in which a boiled egg is cracked slightly and then boiled again in tea, and sauce or spices. It is also known as marble egg because cracks in the egg shell create darkened lines with marble-like patterns. Commonly sold by street vendors or in night markets in most Chinese communities throughout the world, it is also commonly. Chinese tea eggs were one of my favorite snacks growing up.
Steps to make Chinese tea egg!:
- So that's alot of ingredients, but they give you this beautiful fragrance trust me.
- So, let's hard boil some eggs for 10 minutes
- Take em out, cool em with cold water. And with the aid of a spoon, gently tap the egg to crack the shell.
- Crack the shell around the entire egg and place each egg in an empty pot.
- Add all your ingredients and boillllll, reduce the heat and simmer at low. You can simmer all day if you like, the longer the better
- When ready to eat, take out, cool, peel, voilà!!!
- So, let's hard boil some eggs for 10 minutes
- Take em out, cool em with cold water. And with the aid of a spoon, gently tap the egg to crack the shell.
- Crack the shell around the entire egg and place each egg in an empty pot.
- Add all your ingredients and boillllll, reduce the heat and simmer at low. You can simmer all day if you like, the longer the better
- When ready to eat, take out, cool, peel, voilà!!!
Yes, while you might have been snacking on chips or cookies, back in China, we snack on savory eggs 🙂 The tea eggs are so popular and you can find them everywhere - from a breakfast street vendor who has a big pot of these eggs constantly ready on the side of her cart, or packaged. Chinese tea is good for cleansing our digestive system. Often times, we'd like to have a cup of Chinese tea after a meal. Sometimes, I use Chinese tea for cooking. I got a can of Tieguanyin (鐵觀音茶) from a friend that is perfect to make some tea eggs, my long-time favourite snack.
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