Introduction to Tea Eggs

Tea Eggs, a famous Han Chinese snack, one of the traditional foods of China, most parts of the country have the snack. It is a kind of flavored boiled eggs with tea leaves added during the cooking process, because of its simple practice, easy to carry, more at the station, the end of the street, tourists and pedestrians more places to set up a small pot of boiled eggs for sale at a good price. Can do meals, leisure time can be a snack, practical and fun both. Because tea has the function of refreshing the brain, so add a little tea in the process of boiling, boiled eggs will be brown in color. However, some experts point out that tea and eggs with the stomach stimulation, is not the right way to eat eggs.

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How to Make Tea Eggs

How to Make Tea Eggs

Ingredients: 10 eggs, tea, 1000cc of water, 1 cup of soy sauce, 2 tsp of salt, 1 packet of universal marinade.

2. Add 1 tsp of salt to the water and bring the water to a boil over high heat, turning the eggs several times while cooking to keep the yolks concentrated in the center of the eggs. When the water boils, turn down the heat and cook for 10 minutes, then remove from the heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

3, the universal marinade package and all the other ingredients together in a pot to boil, the blunt end of the egg gently cracked out of the cracks, into the pot, with a low fire slowly cook about 1 hour, remove from the heat and then soak for 2 hours.

How to Make Tea Eggs

Ingredients: 500 grams of eggs (about 8), 2 star anise, 1 tbsp of cinnamon sticks, 100 grams of licorice, ? cup of black tea leaves

Seasoning: ? cup of soy sauce

Directions:

1. Boil 4 cups of water with the black tea leaves and reduce the heat to a low boil for 10 minutes. minutes, then remove the tea leaves, tea broth add to the gauze wrapped star anise, cinnamon sticks, licorice.

2, add soy sauce to taste, and then put the eggs with boiled, 10 minutes after the eggs out, use chopsticks to tap the eggshell, so that it produces cracks, and then put back into the soup to cook for 10 minutes.

3. Turn off the heat and leave the eggs to soak in the tea until the soup has cooled.

Tea eggs how to do nutrition will be lost

1, the first time the egg is cooked, do not cook too much, boil for about five minutes, because after adding the tea and seasoning, but also to cook for a period of time to make it taste, too long to cook the egg is too hard and not delicious.

2, tea eggs after cooking must first be removed, and then the soup soak eggs can be, if the tea has been soaked, tea tannins will be released, so that the taste becomes astringent.

3, boiled and cooled tea eggs, if you need to heat, just boil the soup, and then put the eggs into the soaking can be put off the heat.

4, before cooking eggs, first use a spoon to gently beat the eggs, gently beat the eggs is the purpose, so that each egg has cracks, so that cooking is easy to flavor, boiling time is not too long.

5, add salt to the boiled eggs can make cracks in the eggs of the egg will not overflow, so the tea eggs will be cooked very complete.

6, boiled tea eggs when adding cola can not only make tea eggs have a light cola flavor, but also make tea eggs in the tea flavor is more intense.

7, boiled tea eggs and one thing to note, is that the brine must be diffused over the eggs, otherwise back to the pot to boil a time or two, tea eggs into the iron face of the package Longtu, not only ugly, but also the protein is stiff and difficult to chew, not tasty and not easy to digest it.

Tea eggs in the treatment of the ingredients

First of all, you have to choose fresh eggs, one by one, clean, and then put into the water boiled to eight mature. This fire can be very delicate, less than the tender, too much is old. Fish out the eggs, have to dip in cold water for two minutes, and then out of the water, you can gently crack the egg shell into the program of boiled tea eggs.

The best tea eggs with black tea, because black tea is strong and not bitter, bright color, cooked eggs aroma, color and lustre uniformity, excellent appearance. Green tea is more or less a little bitter, boiled eggs will have astringent flavor, and green tea cold, not suitable for stomach problems, weak and pregnant women to eat. Black tea, it is not necessary to use a particularly good black tea, such as Lipton, the car of the black tea bag is very good, after cooking the tea bag out of the throw away on it, will not make a pot full of tea residue, and easy to grasp the amount. Overnight tea eggs are the most flavorful.