Dinner - Traditional chinese tea egg recipe

Author: Rae Burton

Marbled Chinese Tea Eggs are a traditional lucky food for Chinese New Year. Salty, savoury hard boiled eggs soaked in a soy and tea based liquid flavoured with Chinese Five Spice.

Chinese Tea Eggs (w/ Soft and Hard Boiled Eggs, 茶叶蛋)
Chinese Tea Eggs
Chinese Tea Eggs 茶葉蛋
Marbled Chinese Tea Eggs
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Chinese Tea Eggs (w/ Soft and Hard Boiled Eggs, 茶叶蛋)

To make this dish gluten-free, use tamari instead of soy sauce.
Provided by: Maggie Zhu
Total time: 30 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Prep time: 15 minutes
Yields: 12 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Number of ingredients: 11

Ingredients:

12 large eggs
4 tablespoons light soy sauce ((or soy sauce))
2 tablespoons dark soy sauce ((or soy sauce))
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns
1 star anise
1 small cinnamon stick
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 black tea bags ((or 2 tablespoons black tea leaves))
2 1/2 cups water

Nutrition:

How to cook:

Mix all the marinade ingredients in a small pot. Cook over medium heat until bringing to a boil. Turn to medium-low heat. Simmer for 10 minutes. Remove the pot from your stove and let cool completely. Once done, remove and discard the tea bags.
To boil the eggs, heat a pot of water (enough to cover all the eggs) over high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat. Carefully place the eggs in the pot using a ladle, to prevent the eggs from cracking.
Boil 5 minutes for soft-boiled eggs, 7 minutes for medium eggs, or 10 minutes for hard-boiled eggs.
While cooking the eggs, prepare an ice bath by combining ice and tap water in a big bowl.
Once the eggs are cooked, immediately transfer them to the ice bath to cool for 2 to 3 minutes. If you don’t have ice on hand, simply run cool tap water over the eggs for a couple minutes until they cool down.
Gently crack the eggs using the back of a spoon. You want to make sure the egg shells are cracked enough so the marinade will reach the interior, without cracking the eggs apart (especially if you made soft boiled eggs). If you’re in a hurry, you can also peel the eggs and marinate them peeled. The eggs will be ready in 12 hours this way.
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 24 hours for cracked “marble” eggs.
Peel the eggs and enjoy them cold or at room temperature!
You can store the leftover eggs in the marinade for 4 to 5 days in the fridge. The marinade will help with preserving the eggs. Note, the eggs will become more flavorful and saltier over time.

Notes: Chinese Tea Eggs (Cha Ye Dan), Ingredients · 6 large eggs · ¼ cup soy sauce (I used light soy sauce, but use dark soy sauce if you would like a more defined pattern) · 2 cups

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Chinese Tea Eggs

Chinese Tea Eggs. Salty, savoury hard boiled eggs soaked in a soy and tea based liquid flavoured with Chinese Five Spice. A delicious side to any meal.
Provided by: christieathome
Total time: 60 minutes
Cook time: 55 minutes
Prep time: 5 minutes
Yields: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Number of ingredients: 10

Ingredients:

Nutrition:

How to cook:

First you want to soak your eggs in a small pot of room temperature water for 5 minutes. This prevents the egg shells from cracking when you boil them.
Then bring the pot to a boil and boil for 5 minutes. Rinse and cool your eggs under cold water so they're cool to touch.
Using the back of a spoon, lightly (and I mean lightly) crack the shells so they create a "web" pattern. If you crack it too hard the shell will break loose and all your soy sauce will seep inside. You will get that beautiful cracked pattern on your eggs.
Once you've cracked them, place them back into the pot.
To the pot, add all your marinade ingredients and lightly stir.
Bring this pot to a boil, then simmer over medium heat for 40 minutes covered.
Allow your eggs to cool. If you're in a hurry or you're impatient like me, spoon your eggs from the broth and rinse it under cold water to peel.
Peel carefully and enjoy!

Notes: Chinese Tea Eggs (Easy & Delicious), 2 black tea bags · ¼+ ⅛ cup regular soy sauce · 2 cups water · 2 star anise · 1 cinnamon stick · ½ tsp Chinese Five Spice · ½ tsp salt · 1 tsp white

Chinese Tea Eggs 茶葉蛋

If you love eggs and you love art, surely you will love making and eating Chinese Tea Eggs. What other food could provide such a deep artistic satisfaction while at the same providing an eggy snack that is really delicious, filling and unique in taste?
Provided by: Ellen L
Total time: 55 minutes
Cook time: 50 minutes
Prep time: 5 minutes
Yields: 6 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Number of ingredients: 9

Ingredients:

How to cook:

Put eggs in pan with cold water to cover and heat over medium heat until boil. Turn down heat and let simmer for 10 minutes.
Remove and refresh in cold water. When cool enough to touch, gently tap the eggs to crack the shells all over.
Put cracked eggs into a pan with all the rest of the ingredients. Add water to cover.
Simmer for 40 minutes, turning carefully occasionally and adding water if needed.
Turn off heat and let eggs cool in the liquid.
To serve, peel egg and carefully slice into quarters and arrange on plate. Strain cooking liquid through mesh strainer and drizzle a bit onto the plate.

Notes: Chinese Tea Eggs, Now, the traditional method of making Chinese tea eggs calls for them to be cooked twice. Once to hard boil and set the egg white and yolk

Marbled Chinese Tea Eggs

Marbled Chinese Tea Eggs are a traditional lucky food for Chinese New Year. Symbolizing fertility and wealth, they will be prominent on most menus. They are easy to make filling the kitchen with exotic smells of star anise, cinnamon, black tea, Chinese five spice and orange peel. Hard boiled eggs are lightly cracked and soaked in the tea-spice mixture for several hours revealing artistic, delicious eggs.
Provided by: Toni Dash
Total time: 300 minutes
Cook time: 150 minutes
Prep time: 15 minutes
Yields: 8 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Number of ingredients: 10

Ingredients:

8 large eggs
3 ½ cups eater
2 tablespoons loose black tea
2 star anise (broken into pieces)
1 3-inch cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1 tablespoons soy sauce or gluten-free tamari
½ teaspoon Chinese five spice
1 teaspoon Chinese Szechuan Peppercorns (,cracked (black peppercorns can be substituted))
½ teaspoon dried orange peel ((spice))

Nutrition:

How to cook:

Place the eggs in a medium saucepan that allows room for all the eggs and at least ½ inch of water over the top of the eggs. Bring to a boil and lower heat to a simmer. Simmer for 20 minutes.
With a slotted spoon, remove the eggs from the hot water (retain the water in the pan for the tea mixture) and place eggs in a bowl of cold water. Allow the eggs to fully cool. Note: cracking the eggs before they are cold may lead to the shell coming off.
Using the back of a small dining spoon, gently tap the shell all over causing cracks (as shown in the photo). The goal is to crack the shell all over but not dislodge the shell from the egg. Once cracked, set the eggs aside.
Add the remaining ingredients to the saucepan of water: black tea, star anise pieces, cinnamon stick, brown sugar, tamari sauce, Chinese five spice, peppercorns and orange peel. Add the eggs to the saucepan and bring to a low boil; then lower heat to a low simmer.
Simmer the mixture for two hours watching to ensure the water level continues to cover the eggs. Turn off heat and allow the eggs to soak in the tea mixture another 2-3 hours. To deepen the coloration inside the egg further, place eggs and tea mixture in a covered container in the refrigerator overnight.
After soaking, remove the egg shell to reveal the marbled eggs!

Notes: Tea Eggs (Marbled Eggs) Recipe, Place the cracked eggs in an oven baking dish, such as a casserole pot. Fill with enough water to reach 2/3rd up the eggs Add the 70 ml of soy sauce, 2 star