Tea eggs are our traditional cuisine, many regions have such a snack, in fact, the production method of tea eggs is very simple. But can't stand the delicious flavor of vegetable leaf eggs, and carry is also very convenient. It became a snack for all kinds of stations and streets.
Generally speaking, the production of tea eggs, can not directly put the whole egg into the pot to cook, but need to first cook the egg, after the egg shell cracked. After that, the eggs will be placed in the sauce marinade for stewing, so that the stewed eggs, not only with the flavor of the seasoning, but also in the surface of the eggs will be left after the cracked shell, the corresponding good-looking brown texture.
Tip 1: Boil the eggs in white
It is necessary to cook the tea eggs before the need to wash the eggs, and then put them into the pot, pour in the right amount of water, the amount of water is almost no more than the surface of the eggs can be. At first, you need to use high heat to boil the water, and then reduced to medium heat to simmer for about 5 minutes.
But you need to boil the eggs quickly out, and then immediately use water to rinse, wait until the eggs cool down, you can gently knock the eggs on the hard. Almost the egg shell appears broken, the appearance of dense cracks is the best.
Tip 2: Make seasoning packets
Prepare a size when the gauze, will be tea, pepper, incense, cinnamon, soy sauce and sugar are wrapped. Then put the processed eggs into the pot, add water that can not exceed the eggs, do not forget to prepare the tea bag, put it into the pot, and then you can start to stew.
Tip 3: long time simmering
When the fire boiled, you can pour in the right amount of soy sauce and salt, but it is important to note that, at first, the first big fire simmering, wait until the water boiled, you can change into a medium-low fire continue to simmer for about 10 minutes. After that, don't be in a hurry to open the lid, you need to simmer for about 4 hours, so that the sauce can be very good marinade into the flavor.