Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu
Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, black tea marinated eggs & tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu is something which I have loved my whole life.

The tea eggs have a beautiful marbled surface. They are simmered in a savory liquid with star anise, cinnamon sticks, Sichuan peppercorns, and black Transfer the eggs to a quart-size ziplock bag, then carefully pour in the marinade along with the dry ingredients. Marinate overnight for peeled eggs, or.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have black tea marinated eggs & tofu using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu:
  1. Make ready 8 eggs
  2. Make ready 1 pack hard tofu
  3. Make ready 1 tsp peppercorn
  4. Make ready 1 tbsp sichuan peppers
  5. Prepare 25 g cubed rock sugar
  6. Take 2 slices crushed ginger
  7. Get 10 g cinnamon
  8. Take 4 star anise
  9. Make ready 4 bay leaves
  10. Make ready 4-5 black tea bags
  11. Get 80 ml dark soy sauce
  12. Take 40 ml soy sauce
  13. Prepare 1 tbsp salt
  14. Get 30 g rice wine/cooking wine
  15. Take 1 liter water

I also save the marinade for the next batch of tea eggs I want to make. I also found that adding a small amount of sugar makes it taste better. Tea egg is a typical Chinese savory food commonly sold as a snack, in which a boiled egg is cracked slightly and then boiled again in tea, and sauce or spices. Chinese Tea Egg is a famous Chinese street food which is also known as marbled egg.

Steps to make Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu:
  1. Boil the eggs (medium heat) for about 5 minutes. Cool it down with cold water, let it sit while preparing the pot of marinade
  2. Put everything into the 1 litre of water aside from the cooking wine, eggs, & tofu. If you have a bag to put everything to cook, it will be easier to remove all the spices. Cook for 15 minutes over medium heat
  3. Using a spoon, make crack patterns to the shells of the eggs so that when you peel it later, it has pretty zigzag patterns and the marinade absorbs nicely into the eggs. Cut up the tofu into small strips or pieces to also be soaked in the marinade.
  4. Remove all the spices from the marinade, put the eggs and tofu into the pot of marinade and cook with the tea bags for about 10 minutes.
  5. Remove the tea bags and turn off the heat. Add in the cooking wine and stir to have it blended. The eggs & tofu should sit in the marinade for at least 6 hours before it is ready to be served.
  6. Recommend peeling the egg shells after 6 hours. I prefer enjoying the marinated eggs & tofu cold. Some people like to reheat the bowl before serving. Enjoy!

Eggs are braised with spices and Chinese teas thus have a Traditional tea eggs are usually heating on a stove and has been boiled for quite a long time, possibly server hours. As a result, the egg white becomes. Marinated or seasoned eggs is one of my favorite ways to eat soft boiled eggs (and even hard boiled eggs). I've tried different versions of seasoned eggs - pickled eggs and Chinese tea eggs being two that I really like. But Ramen Eggs (Ajitsuke Tamago) have always been my favorite!

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