Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, black tea marinated eggs & tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The tea eggs have a beautiful marbled surface. They are simmered in a savory liquid with star anise, cinnamon sticks, Sichuan peppercorns, and black 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.
Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black tea marinated eggs & tofu using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu:
- Get 8 eggs
- Prepare 1 pack hard tofu
- Prepare 1 tsp peppercorn
- Make ready 1 tbsp sichuan peppers
- Make ready 25 g cubed rock sugar
- Get 2 slices crushed ginger
- Make ready 10 g cinnamon
- Get 4 star anise
- Get 4 bay leaves
- Prepare 4-5 black tea bags
- Prepare 80 ml dark soy sauce
- Prepare 40 ml soy sauce
- Get 1 tbsp salt
- Prepare 30 g rice wine/cooking wine
- Take 1 liter water
I also save the marinade for the next batch of tea eggs I want to make. I also found that adding a small amount of sugar makes it taste better. 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. Chinese Tea Egg is a famous Chinese street food which is also known as marbled egg.
Instructions 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!
Eggs are braised with spices and Chinese teas thus have a Traditional tea eggs are usually heating on a stove and has been boiled for quite a long time, possibly server hours. As a result, the egg white becomes. Marinated or seasoned eggs is one of my favorite ways to eat soft boiled eggs (and even hard boiled eggs). I've tried different versions of seasoned eggs - pickled eggs and Chinese tea eggs being two that I really like. But Ramen Eggs (Ajitsuke Tamago) have always been my favorite!
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