Homemade Tea Eggs

Accessories: Star Anise, Cinnamon, Tea, Five Spice Powder, Salt, Light Soy Sauce, Sugar, Chicken Essence

1, Star Anise (scientific name: Illicium verum? Hook.f.), is a plant of the family Aniseidae, genus Anise.

2, cinnamon in China has been used as a meat seasoning and ginger. Cinnamon, Guangdong folk called "yinxiang" belongs to the camphor family cinnamon of a kind. China's Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other provinces are produced. Used as an aromatic condiment, but also extract cinnamon oil, an important spice for the food industry, but also into medicine. Cinnamon, also known as cinnamon, is one of the earliest spices used by mankind.

3, five-spice powder is more than five kinds of spices ground into a powder mixed together, often used in the frying, frying before the coating on the chicken, duck meat, but also can be mixed with fine salt to do dipping material. It is widely used in Oriental cuisine for its spicy flavors, and is especially suited for seasoning baked or stir-fried meats, stews, casseroles, simmered, steamed, and boiled dishes. Its name comes from the balance of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty flavors required by Chinese culture.

Expanded Information

Boiling eggs in tea can affect your health. The expert's explanation is that the tea contains alkali components of biological acids, in the boiling will penetrate the eggs, and eggs in the iron combination; this combination, the stomach has a strong irritation, over time, will affect the digestion and absorption of nutrients, is not conducive to human health.

Cooking tea eggs, the best choice of black tea. First, black tea is strong and mellow, no bitterness, cooked tea eggs aroma, bright color.

Then black tea does not hurt the stomach, because tea contains important substances - tea polyphenols have astringent, the stomach has a certain stimulating effect, and black tea is fermented and baked, tea polyphenols in the role of oxidative enzymes under the enzyme oxidation reaction, the content of the reduction of gastric irritation will be reduced.

In contrast, green tea has a slightly bitter flavor, and the boiled tea eggs are slightly astringent. Moreover, green tea is cold in nature and is not suitable for people with stomach problems, the weak and pregnant women.

Reference Baidu Encyclopedia - Tea Eggs

People's Daily Online - Tea Eggs Cannot Be Eaten Too Much Tea Eggs Hazard Inventory