Recipe: Yummy Chinese tea egg!

Chinese tea egg!. Chinese tea eggs were one of my favorite snacks growing up. Yes, while you might have been The tea eggs have a beautiful marbled surface. They are simmered in a savory liquid with star anise.

This authentic recipe for Chinese tea eggs yields not just a flavorful egg (from lots of spices, soy sauce, and rice wine), but also a soft yolk! I love Chinese tea leaf eggs. Always takes longer to make than you'd think though. You can cook Chinese tea egg! using 26 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chinese tea egg!

1. It's Half of a dozen eggs.
2. You need 3/4 cup of medium soy sauce.
3. You need 1/4 cup of dark soy sauce.
4. It's 1 tsp of fennel seeds.
5. Prepare 1 stick of cinnamon.
6. Prepare 2-3 of star anise seeds.
7. It's 1 tbsp of brown sugar.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of Szechuan peppercorns.
9. Prepare 1 of bay leaf.
10. You need 1/2 tbsp of green tea leaves.
11. You need 1 of tea bag.
12. You need of Salt.
13. It's of Black peppercorns.
14. You need Half of a dozen eggs.
15. It's 3/4 cup of medium soy sauce.
16. You need 1/4 cup of dark soy sauce.
17. It's 1 tsp of fennel seeds.
18. You need 1 stick of cinnamon.
19. You need 2-3 of star anise seeds.
20. You need 1 tbsp of brown sugar.
21. You need 1 tsp of Szechuan peppercorns.
22. It's 1 of bay leaf.
23. It's 1/2 tbsp of green tea leaves.
24. You need 1 of tea bag.
25. It's of Salt.
26. It's of Black peppercorns.

What I usually do is that I just throw the eggs in with the sauce in the initial boil and simmer for a few. This Marbled Tea Egg recipe serves up eggs with a beautiful marbled surface. They look beautiful and taste divine! Why This Chinese Tea Egg Recipe Is So Good.

Chinese tea egg! instructions

1. So that's alot of ingredients, but they give you this beautiful fragrance trust me..
2. So, let's hard boil some eggs for 10 minutes.
3. Take em out, cool em with cold water. And with the aid of a spoon, gently tap the egg to crack the shell..
4. Crack the shell around the entire egg and place each egg in an empty pot..
5. 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.
6. When ready to eat, take out, cool, peel, voilà!!!.
7. So, let's hard boil some eggs for 10 minutes.
8. Take em out, cool em with cold water. And with the aid of a spoon, gently tap the egg to crack the shell..
9. Crack the shell around the entire egg and place each egg in an empty pot..
10. 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.
11. When ready to eat, take out, cool, peel, voilà!!!.

Tea egg 茶叶蛋 (a type of soy sauce egg 卤蛋 ) is a popular snack in the Chinese community. You will find street food vendors selling tea egg in the electric rice cooker, Hainanese chicken rice stores. Chinese Tea Egg is a famous Chinese street food which is also known as marbled egg. Eggs are braised with spices and Chinese teas thus have a unique and strong tea flavor. Chinese tea eggs are packed with flavour and have a beautiful marble look.