Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, tea infused herbal egg. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tea Infused Herbal Egg is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Tea Infused Herbal Egg is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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. Chinese tea eggs were one of my favorite snacks growing up.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have tea infused herbal egg using 15 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tea Infused Herbal Egg:
- Get 6 Eggs
- Prepare Herbs
- Get Chinese Tea (红茶）
- Take Radix Angelica Sinesis (当归) / Female Ginseng
- Make ready Radix Glycyrrhizae (甘草) / Liquorice
- Get Rhizoma Chuanxiong (川芎）
- Get Cortex Cinnamomi (肉桂) / Cinnamon
- Take Fructus Anisi Stellati (大茴香) / Star Anise
- Prepare Radix Rehmanniae (熟地）
- Prepare Rock Sugar (冰糖）
- Take Pepper (胡椒粒）
- Get Seasoning
- Make ready 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- Prepare 2 tbsp dark soy sauce
- Take 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 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.
Instructions 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.
Make your own marbled Tea Eggs subtly infused with an aromatic tea and spice blend. They are not only tasty but pretty as well! These eggs can also be dipped in the tea brew itself. Like other Chinese herbal stews, this snack is particularly good in cold weather and helps to warm up the body. Tea egg 茶叶蛋 (a type of soy sauce egg 卤蛋 ) is a popular snack among the Chinese.
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