Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, marble tea eggs. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Marble tea eggs is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Marble tea eggs is something which I have loved my whole life.
Chinese tea eggs are packed with flavour and have a beautiful marble look. More and more I realize that the memory of my happy childhood is mostly food related. I recently discovered something incredible: marbled tea eggs.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook marble tea eggs using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Marble tea eggs:
- Prepare eggs
- Take 4 large eggs
- Make ready 1 quart water
- Prepare marbling brine
- Get 1/3 cup loose leaf tea
- Prepare 1 quart water
- Take 3 star anise
- Prepare 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 2 tsp brown sugar packed
- Get 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- Prepare 1/2 tsp chives, chopped
This Marbled Tea Egg recipe serves up eggs with a beautiful marbled surface. They are simmered in a savory liquid with star anise, cinnamon sticks, Sichuan peppercorns, and black tea until soaked with. Marbled Tea Eggs are hard-boiled eggs with cracked shells and boiled again in herbs, seasonings, and tea leaves to create that beautiful marbles on the eggs. Chinese marbled tea eggs are almost too pretty to eat.
Steps to make Marble tea eggs:
- In a small pot gently put you eggs in it, then cover with water. Bring to boil. From the time of boiling let it boil 10 minutes. Take to sink let cold water run into pot cooling it down.
- In a pot add water, tea, star anise,sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and chives bring it to simmer.
- When eggs are cool to touch, take the back of a spoon and gently hit eggs. Causing small cracks in shell leave the shell on and put into tea.
- Simmer for 45 minutes. Then let cool. Peel and serve. Hope you enjoy!
Chinese tea eggs are easy to make and are a fun upgrade to your usual lunchbox hard-boiled eggs. 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. Chinese tea eggs are a tasty and beautiful snack, spectacular thanks to their spiderwebded texture. The first time I ate this marbled Chinese specialty I was in Beijing.
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