The taste of pickled salted eggs varies according to the tastes of people in each region, so each region has invented different methods of pickling salted eggs. The main raw materials used to pickle salted eggs in Sichuan are alcohol and salt. In the Loess Plateau area, yellow mud is preferred for pickling salted eggs. If you make pickled salted eggs at home, you can choose different production methods according to your needs.

How to pickle salted eggs

1. Salted eggs

When pickling, first dissolve salt in boiling water until it reaches a saturated state (that is, salt water A bit salty and bitter). After the salt water cools, put the washed and dried eggs into the salt water one by one, pour a small cup of white wine into the salt water, seal the mouth of the jar, and you can open the jar and take it out for cooking in about 30 days. This method of pickling salted eggs is simple and quick, and the yolks are rich in oil, making them especially fragrant and delicious.

2. Pickled eggs in white wine

When pickling, first dip the washed and dried eggs in white wine one by one, then roll in refined salt and put them in a container. It will be ready in about 30 days. This method is the easiest.

3. Five-spice eggs

Put an appropriate amount of peppercorns, five-spice anise, garlic seeds, ginger, and refined salt into water, boil for 20 minutes, and pour into a porcelain jar. Then soak the washed eggs, seal the jar tightly, and serve after 40 days. This pickled duck egg is rich in fragrance, slightly salty and delicious.

How to pickle salted eggs

4. Pickle with plant ash

Mix the plant ash with salt and coat the eggshell with water (most of the ones sold in the market are made with salted eggs) Pickled in this way)

5. Pickled in rice soup

Use rice soup or the soup after cooking rice noodles, add yellow mud or red mud, and add salt (the amount of salt There is no proportion, you can add it according to your requirement of saltiness or lightness). It is said that this kind of pickled salted egg yolk produces the most oil.

6. Pickle in a pressure cooker

It only takes 3-4 hours to pickle! The method is: first prepare a saturated salt solution with cold boiled water and salt, and then put the undamaged Put fresh eggs into a pressure cooker and pour in saturated salt solution to submerge the eggs. The volume occupied by eggs and salt solution does not exceed three-quarters of the total capacity of the pressure cooker. Then install the rubber ring on the pressure cooker lid, cover it on the pressure cooker, and tighten it. Then take an air pump and connect its air guide tube to the air outlet of the pressure cooker lid, and inject air into the pot. Then remove the pump, cover the high-pressure valve, and leave it for 3-4 hours. Finally, remove the high-pressure valve, open the pressure cooker, take out the eggs and serve. Since the eggs are soaked in saturated salt, under the action of high-pressure air, the salt solution quickly penetrates into the eggs, so they are quickly pickled in a short time, and the pickled duck eggs are more evenly salty.