What is the Chinese breakfast like? Baozi soybean milk and doughnuts that are often found on the breakfast table of the northern people, as for what the southerners eat, it is not known, because it has not been to the south. But to say that the two places are similar, it should be tea eggs.
That's right, it is the tea eggs that symbolize the Chinese breakfast culture to some extent. Both southerners and northerners should have eaten tea eggs, and a dollar and a half a tea egg is a standard at breakfast stalls.
The origin of the tea egg is no longer proven. Because tea eggs are a kind of folk snack, so there is no detailed record of its origin. It may be a long time ago, a cook has nothing to do want to eat, take out the fresh eggs to the pot, and suddenly feel the eggs tasteless added salt added tea. And so the tea egg was born.
Of course, the above is just made up. Tea eggs are indeed very tasty, but can not eat more. After all, there is a substance in the tea has a stimulus to the stomach, so it can not eat more, and can not eat often. This is just a little advice when eating tea eggs. In fact, tea eggs are very nutritious. Because of the many effects of tea, eggs are also very nutritious. That is why tea eggs are very nutritious. Tea eggs are not only loved by people because they are rich in nutrients. The main thing is that tea eggs are very delicious ah!
Think about it, when you walk on the street in the morning hungrily, the roadside snacks of all colors are beckoning you. Suddenly, you smell a scent not that of food, but a strong aroma of tea, you instantly awake. Carefully sniff inside there is also anise and other big ingredients of the food fragrance, come closer to see is the color of the strong tea eggs. Think about the flavor of the tea egg aroma that you used to eat? Boss, have a tea egg tea eggs can be bought in the morning to eat, but how do you want to eat at night? Teach you a trick, even at home can make colorful tea eggs.
Materials: eggs, tea, salt, rock sugar, pepper, soy sauce, ginger, anise, cinnamon, sesame leaves. Materials ready to start.
The first step: wash the eggs, put the eggs into cold water and boil for a period of time is about ten minutes, until the inside of the protein solidified, and then the egg skin knocked out of the crack.
The second step: put all kinds of spices also known as star anise, sesame leaves, ginger, cinnamon, pepper into the pot on medium heat and start cooking.
Step 3: Add tea and soy sauce for color. Put rock sugar, salt into it to season Step 4: Cover the pot and start cooking the eggs, the eggs are cooked into tea eggs. After cooking, turn off the fire and put the tea eggs in the pot to soak for an hour to taste.