Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, tea infused herbal egg. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chinese Herbal Tea Eggs (or also commonly known as Tea Leaf Eggs or Marbled Eggs) is a nutritious and healthy snack that can be found throughout China and in most parts of South-East Asia. These are hard-boiled eggs infused with the flavors of tea leafs and various Chinese herbs and spices. Infused Tea Eggs: Eggs are one of my favorite things to eat and cook with, they can take on so many different forms with different flavors.
Tea Infused Herbal Egg is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Tea Infused Herbal Egg is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook tea infused herbal egg using 15 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tea Infused Herbal Egg:
- Make ready 6 Eggs
- Take Herbs
- Prepare Chinese Tea (红茶）
- Take Radix Angelica Sinesis (当归) / Female Ginseng
- Get Radix Glycyrrhizae (甘草) / Liquorice
- Prepare Rhizoma Chuanxiong (川芎）
- Get Cortex Cinnamomi (肉桂) / Cinnamon
- Make ready Fructus Anisi Stellati (大茴香) / Star Anise
- Get Radix Rehmanniae (熟地）
- Make ready Rock Sugar (冰糖）
- Prepare Pepper (胡椒粒）
- Take Seasoning
- Get 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- Get 2 tbsp dark soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp salt
Always takes longer to make than you'd think though. This version is okay but search around for other versions on the internet for I love tea eggs! What I usually do is that I just throw the eggs in with the sauce in the initial boil and simmer for a few hours and just let it marinate in. Tea egg 茶叶蛋 (a type of soy sauce egg 卤蛋 ) is a popular snack among the Chinese.
Steps to make Tea Infused Herbal Egg:
- Boil the eggs for 7 minutes. Remove skin. (You can leave the skin on but shells cracked if you like vein-like pattern on the egg. I prefer it smooth)
- Boil the seasoning. Add the tea leaves and herbs (optional). Turn off fire. Add the boiled eggs and let the flavours infuse for at least 2 hours or more. The longer true better. Serve warm with rice.
Very deliciious, easy to make and nutritious. Everyone likes tea egg because it is easy to prepare, nutritious, and can be prepared in advance (up to three days in the refrigerator). These Tea Infused Marble Eggs would make an interesting alternative to the usual hard-cooked eggs served for afternoon tea and also for the Easter holiday. They are really simple to make, but they need time to sit, for at a least a day, to reach their potential in flavor and appearance. Chinese Tea Leaf Eggs - Eggs steeped in a tea-infused liquid.
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