【Five-spice tea eggs】

Overview

Tea eggs, often referred to as tea eggs in northern China, are a processed egg product with a long tradition. They are a snack widely spread in China and one of China’s famous products. In Taiwan, tea eggs are usually a popular product in convenience stores. The smell of tea eggs every morning often whets your appetite. Boiling tea eggs is quite simple. As a popular folk snack, it is fragrant in the folk alleys. You can often see it in restaurants in the streets and alleys. Every time you go to a snack bar to eat, you can't help but drool when you see it. It is said that tea eggs should not be eaten too much. It seems that eating too much will cause symptoms of anemia. Even we don’t eat this every day, and we can’t eat it a few times a year. It’s okay to satisfy our cravings occasionally. Of course, if you pay attention to health, you have to consider it. Experts also say that beef and tomatoes cannot be eaten together. Don’t we also have ketchup when we eat steak? Well, vitamin C cannot be eaten with shrimps. Aren’t fruits high in vitamin C often eaten with shrimps? As long as you don’t overdose on anything, there’s no big problem

Tags

• snacks
• black tea bag
• cinnamon
• clear water
• egg
• five spice powder
• old soy sauce
• star anise
• sugar
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• fragrant leaves
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Rinse the eggs (please ignore the two colors of my eggs, hee)

   

2. 2 Put the washed eggs into the pot, add water, the water should cover the eggs, and then cook over medium-low heat for about 4 to 5 minutes (do not use high heat, as boiling over high heat will easily cause the eggs to crack)

   

3. 3 After cooking, pour away the water and rinse the eggs with cold water. When the eggs are rinsed to a temperature that is not hot, use a spoon to gently crack the egg shell (don't use too much force, otherwise it will break completely, just crack the surface of the eggshell to make it easier to taste)

   

4. 4 Refill the pot with water and add all the seasonings except the black tea bags

   

5. 5 After boiling over high heat, put in the black tea bag (ordinary tea leaves are also acceptable, but the tea leaves in the black tea bag will not be all over the pot when boiling, and the fragrance is not bitter. If you are using tea leaves, it is recommended to put the seasoning balls in it and then put it in the pot for cooking. After cooking, just open the seasoning balls and discard the spices inside, so that the whole pot will not be covered)

   

6. 6 Boil again for 2~3 minutes until all the brown color of the black tea bag is soaked, then take out the black tea bag

   

7. 7 Put the eggs with cracked shells in (keep the soup covered with the eggs, so that the cooked eggs will not be dark on one side and shallow on the other)

   

8. 8 Then cook over medium-low heat for 30 minutes, turning the eggs from time to time to let the flavor evenly absorb. Turn off the heat and soak for more than an hour before eating (because the eggs are soaked in the soup for a long time, the eggs will have a richer flavor. If you can’t finish them all at one time, you can store them in the refrigerator. Just boil them when you eat them. It is best not to cook too much at one time. After all, you can’t eat too much, just to satisfy your cravings)