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Cooking at home: Chinese Tea Eggs

August 23, 2010 By radmegan 4 Comments

Tastespotting.com has always been one of my favorite places to window-shop recipes I may want to attempt, discover new food blogs to read, and add must-visit restaurants to my travel wish-list.


I bookmarked these Chinese Tea Eggs in 2008, and not long ago, while scrolling through my old faves, I ran across them again and got inspired to try them out. The recipe is about the same difficulty level as your average hardboiled eggs, but appeals to me, since I usually end up breaking one or two eggs anyway. Also, these are prettier.  

Chinese Tea Eggs!

Tea eggs


6 eggs


3 tablespoons soy sauce

1 teaspoon salt


1 tablespoon black tea

5 star anise pods


1 teaspoon Chinese 5-spice


1 teaspoon cracked peppercorns
1 bay leaf


In water just covering the eggs, simmer for 2 minutes. Remove the eggs from the water, and crack them without removing their shells. The more cracks in your eggshells, the more patterned they will be in the end.


Return the eggs with the remaining ingredients into the pot of water. Cover the pot, and simmer together for two hours.
Crack the Par-Boiled Eggs

Let the Eggs Simmer in the Spices
...For Two Hours 


Remove Cooked Eggs
Chinese Tea Eggs Completed
Remove the eggshells and enjoy this tasty and eye-catching snack!

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Comments

  1. Teal Faux says

    August 23, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    cool! how’d they taste?

    Reply
  2. radmegan says

    August 24, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    Very good actually. There’s a subtle soy-sauce and and 5-spice flavor thats really pleasing. No salt and pepper needed on these babies! :)

    Reply
  3. Anonymous says

    April 5, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    My mom used to make these for me for snacks on school trips. They are my favorite. Thanks for featuring this!

    Reply
    • radmegan says

      April 6, 2012 at 7:38 am

      Thank you for the note! I have been wanting to make these again! What a nice snack to have as a child :)

      xoxo

      Reply

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