Methods and Steps for Making Tea Leaf Eggs

I. Wash the Eggs Put the eggs into a basin, add water, and wash off the stains on the shells one by one. The washed eggs are less likely to break when cooked. Even for the sake of hygiene, wash the eggs early. Don't mind the trouble!

Two, boiled eggs

1, each egg is cleaned we began to cook eggs! Eggs into the pot. Note that each egg should be held lightly to prevent the eggs from cracking, add the water that does not exceed the eggs. Cook the eggs for about 3-6 minutes. Then fish out the eggs and crack the shells with a spoon.

2, pour off the boiled egg water, put the pot to add star anise, cinnamon, sesame leaves, black tea, ginger, water, a little sugar, chicken essence, salt, soya sauce, soy sauce, cooking wine, high heat boil enough to turn off the fire. Finally put in the hard-boiled eggs, cover and soak. If it is a supermarket to buy marinated egg material, according to the number of eggs appropriate to add marinade package boil can soak eggs.

Three, soak the eggs

Boiled eggs and soup together can be soaked for three hours to 8 hours or so, soak the good tea eggs are more flavorful. Of course, the soaking time depends on your material juice, degree of saltiness, if the flavor of the soup is heavier, you can soak for a period of time, the flavor of the soup is more when some, you can soak for a few hours. The longer the tea egg soaks, the more fragrant it tastes, and the better the color. The yolk of the tea egg absorbs the aroma of the tea and spices, and the very strong aroma fills the mouth and nose, even if it has been swallowed, it still has a lingering aftertaste.

Boiled tea eggs tips: boiled eggs are best cooked in cold water, easy to peel. Eggs and tea leaves are not best cooked together for a long time at the same time. After a long time to cook out of the tea eggs. The color presented by the yolk is gray-green, just because the ferrous ions in the yolk and the sulfur ions in the protein combined to form a difficult to melt and ferrous sulfide caused by this ferrous sulfide will not be absorbed by the human body, people consume the phenomenon of malabsorption, and even lead to the symptoms of zinc deficiency anemia.

Warm tips: tea eggs although delicious, try to eat as little as possible try not to eat overnight tea eggs, their own home made home made tea eggs, eat how much to do how much. Because of the fully cooked eggs after the overnight nutrition of which will breed bacteria, if you eat such spoiled eggs will be harmful to health. Because the protein has been destroyed when cooking, and overnight, so the nutritional value will be reduced a lot. Eating overnight eggs is not good for the stomach and digestive system. General eggs are not spoiled most will not be bad for the body, eat overnight tea eggs must eat heated eggs, can make the bacteria or harmful substances inside the destruction, to prevent food poisoning and intestinal bacterial growth. Eggs contain protein and a variety of minerals, daily intake can increase their own immunity and resistance, can reduce the disease infection.