Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chinese tea leaves eggs. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chinese Tea Leaves Eggs is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chinese Tea Leaves Eggs is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese tea leaves eggs using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese Tea Leaves Eggs:

1. Take 1 dozen eggs
2. Prepare 1 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns
3. Get 4 teaspoons dark soy sauce
4. Prepare 3 tablespoons light soy sauce
5. Get 1 teaspoon sugar
6. Make ready 2 teaspoons salt
7. Take 2 tablespoons Shaoxing wine
8. Take 2 slices ginger
9. Get 1 cinnamon stick
10. Get 2 tablespoons black tea leaves
11. Take 2 bay leaves
12. Make ready 3 star anise

I decided to borrow the technique and did a little daring revamp on traditional Chinese tea eggs. While we already posted a Chinese tea egg recipe years ago, I think that this recipe actually yields a tastier tea egg when compared to that original. Tea Leaf Eggs 茶葉蛋 is a traditional Chinese appetizer and often paired with a bowl of rice or served on its own. The tea eggs have a beautiful marbled surface and are rich in umami flavours after being bathing in a savoury marinade consisting of light and dark soy sauce , star anise , cinnamon , Sichuan peppercorns , shaoxing wine and of course black tea leaves.

Instructions to make Chinese Tea Leaves Eggs:

1. Bring the eggs to room temperature by leaving them out of refrigerator for a couple hours.
2. In the meantime, prepare the sauce base by adding the rest of the ingredients to a medium pot. Bring the mixture to a boil, and the turn the heat down to a simmer. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Then turn off the heat, open the lid, set it aside, and let it cool completely.
3. Bring another pot of water to a boil for the eggs. Once boiling, gently and quickly lower the eggs into the boiling water using a large spoon. You want to avoid dropping them and cracking them on the bottom of the pot. Let the eggs cook in the boiling water for 7 minutes (it’s a good idea to set a timer). Once the timer goes off, turn off the heat, quickly scoop out the eggs, and transfer to an ice bath. Allow them to sit in the ice bath until they are completely cool to the touch. The purpose h
4. Once the eggs are cooled, lightly crack the egg shells. The goal here is to make enough cracks to allow the flavor of the sauce base to seep into the egg. I like to use a small spoon to tap the eggs, but be careful! It you tap or crack too hard, you might crack open the egg since the egg yolk is still very soft.
5. Soak the cracked eggs in your sauce base for 24 hours in the refrigerator, making sure all the eggs are completely submerged in the sauce base. After 24 hours, they’re ready! You can also soak them longer for a stronger flavor. These eggs last for 3 to 4 days in the refrigerator.

Tea Leaf Eggs 茶葉蛋 is a traditional Chinese appetizer and often paired with a bowl of rice or served on its own. The tea eggs have a beautiful marbled surface and are rich in umami flavours after being bathing in a savoury marinade consisting of light and dark soy sauce , star anise , cinnamon , Sichuan peppercorns , shaoxing wine and of course black tea leaves. The recipe for Chinese marbled eggs is very simple, but it varies from recipe to recipe and different parts of China. I use strong dark tea leaves and I probably use more than the original recipe, but I love the flavour. If you don't have loose tea, you can use tea bags - anything like strong tea bags will be fine.

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