Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, black tea marinated eggs & tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
One of my favorite dishes when I head back home; it combines hard-boiled eggs with the subtle flavor of anise and the deep brown hues of black tea and soy. The cracked patterns from the broken shells make these quite attractive! I eat these sliced in quarters and chilled as a side dish, appetizer, or snack.
To get started 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 cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu:
- Prepare 8 eggs
- Take 1 pack hard tofu
- Make ready 1 tsp peppercorn
- Prepare 1 tbsp sichuan peppers
- Take 25 g cubed rock sugar
- Make ready 2 slices crushed ginger
- Take 10 g cinnamon
- Make ready 4 star anise
- Prepare 4 bay leaves
- Get 4-5 black tea bags
- Make ready 80 ml dark soy sauce
- Prepare 40 ml soy sauce
- Prepare 1 tbsp salt
- Take 30 g rice wine/cooking wine
- Take 1 liter water
Black tea is usually preferred, but other teas could lend interesting flavors as well. While the tea is brewing, feel free to toss in some Chinese five spice, a cinnamon stick, bay leaves, ginger, or any combination thereof. Tea eggs are usually infused with a number of spices, so there's room to play around with flavor combinations. Which leads me to this soft Chinese Tea Egg recipe.
Steps to make Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu:
- Boil the eggs (medium heat) for about 5 minutes. Cool it down with cold water, let it sit while preparing the pot of marinade
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
I was looking to emulate the method that the Japanese use to boil eggs for ramen. The cooking method is pretty ingenious, as these eggs turn out flavorful yet soft in the middle. I decided to borrow the technique and did a little daring revamp on traditional Chinese tea eggs. Chinese tea eggs, traditionally served during Chinese New Year celebrations, are easy to make. Simply prepare some boiled eggs and steep them in tea marinade.
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