Skin eggs, also known as loose eggs, eggs, etc., is a very peculiar taste of egg processing food, skin eggs are duck eggs as the main raw material, and then with quicklime, yellow dan powder, tea leaves, soda ash, grass ash and salt, etc., plus the diluted parcel processing and become. Skin eggs are rich in nutrients, appetizing and detoxifying, and have certain medicinal value.

Use of eggs in alkaline solution, can make the properties of protein gel, so that it becomes elastic solid. The skin egg is a very alkaline food, has a certain health effect, but not too much to eat, most of the skin eggs purchased on the market contain lead, eat more easily lead poisoning. Nowadays, there are also some lead-free eggs for sale, but it is impossible to prove the authenticity of the eggs. Today we make our own skin eggs at home, because duck eggs and eggs are too long to marinate, so I made some with quail eggs, in time for the Spring Festival to do a good job, to make a fish sauce skin eggs.

Homemade eggs

Materials Preparation

Quail eggs 2 pounds, 100 grams of powdered eggs, 100 grams of water, 20 grams of salt

Operating steps

Steps 1: Prepare 2 pounds of quail eggs, quail eggs, quail eggs, because of the skin is thin, it is very easy to break, so do not need to be cleaned and put directly on a plate of standby. If it is an egg or duck eggs can be cleaned and dried surface water spare.

Step 2: Prepare 100 grams of powdered eggs, 20 grams of salt, 100 grams of water. Pour the egg powder into a large bowl, add salt and mix well, add water while mixing, add all the water in one direction after all the mixing has been 10 minutes, in the process of mixing the egg paste gradually thickened, if there is a tendency to become dry, then add a small amount of water. Some egg batters need to be mixed with tea, but this one is mixed with tea powder, so just add water. Mix well and set aside for half an hour.

Step 3: Prepare a cardboard box and a Ziploc bag, put the Ziploc bag into the cardboard box and set aside.

Step 4: half a child, wearing gloves, quail eggs into the egg paste, evenly coated with egg paste, if you think the egg paste is too thin, you can add a little bit of egg powder, until the surface of the quail egg egg egg paste has a certain thickness, quail eggs, all wrapped in egg paste, after the sealing bag sealed mouth, and then the carton sealed. 20 ℃ room temperature sealing placed about 7 days, the egg 10 days, duck eggs Duck eggs need about 20 days. If the room temperature is around 30℃, quail eggs can be kept for 5 days, eggs for 7 days and duck eggs for 10 days. The lower the temperature, the longer the time, but when the time is up, take one out and observe the condition first.

Step 5: 7 days after opening the carton, take out the sealed bag, open and look at the quail eggs above the skin egg paste has dried, this time it is almost done, you can also take out the two cleaned and peeled to check, if not done wait two more days.

Step 6: put the quail skin under the faucet, with live water to clean off the skin and egg paste, skin and egg paste corrosive, the process of contact must wear gloves.

Step 7: Wash them all and then rinse them as a whole, there may still be residual skin and egg paste at this time. Drain the eggs into a bowl, add white vinegar not over the eggs, put aside to soak for 20 minutes to let the white vinegar and egg powder reaction for a while.

Step 8: After soaking and cleaning, quail eggs are ready. Peel the quail eggs to see, inside the egg white completely solidified, and crystal clear, quail skin egg is done successfully. If the egg white is liquid, the marinade time is not enough. If the egg whites become crumbly or hard, they have been pickled too much.

Step 9: Cut and look inside, the yolk is slightly loose, this state is the best, pickled for a long time the yolk will become hard.

Tips

1, buy egg powder to choose lead-free, online egg powder of many kinds, some need to use tea to adjust the egg paste, some of which is mixed with tea powder, so read the instructions carefully, the specific proportion of the operation should also be in accordance with the instructions of their own purchase.

2, the egg paste should not be adjusted too thin, otherwise the surface of the egg paste is too thin, not easy to marinate successfully, and too much water egg paste dry very slowly.

3, you can use quail eggs, eggs or duck eggs to make eggs, quail eggs have the shortest time, duck eggs have the longest time, according to the room temperature, but also look at the ratio of the instructions of the powdered eggs you buy in detail.

4, make sure to wear gloves, leather egg powder will have some corrosive.

5, do a good job egg white solidified and crystal clear, pinch very flexible, but very soft. If the pickling time is short, the egg white and yolk will be liquid. If the pickling time is too long, the egg white and yolk will become hard, some egg white will become slag.

6, well done eggs to the outside of the skin egg paste clean can be stored at room temperature for a month, if the surface is not broken, a little longer is okay.