Eggs 7 Old soy sauce 4 tablespoons
Cooking wine 1 tablespoon Fragrant leaves 2 tablets
Star anise 1 Zanthoxylum bungeanum 6-8 capsules
How to make braised tea eggs #Spend 10 minutes to make a dish!# Illustration of how to make braised tea eggs 1

Step 1

Wash the eggs first, be careful! Fragile items! Soak in water and rinse several times. #Take 10 minutes to make a dish!# Braised Tea Egg Illustration of how to do it 2

Step 2

Prepare a cooking pot, pour enough water and add eggs. The key is to put the pot under cold water! Bring to a boil over medium heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 4-5 minutes. Note that the egg whites are easy to cook and there is a stewing process later. Don't cook the eggs too high, as they may burst! #Take 10 minutes to make a dish!# Braised Tea Eggs Illustration of how to do it 3

Step 3

Remove the hard-boiled eggs and put them into cold water. This is also the perfect way to peel an egg. It expands with heat and shrinks with cold.When done, the egg white and eggshell will separate, and a smooth and complete egg can be peeled off. #Spend 10 minutes to make a dish!# Braised Tea Egg Illustration of how to do it 4

Step 4

After running under cold water, we need to gently crack the eggs into some cracks, but do not peel them out completely. When preparing the ingredients for the sauce, you can use soy sauce, dark soy sauce, etc., plus cooking wine, star anise, bay leaves, and Sichuan peppercorns. Among the spices, star anise is irreplaceable! No need to add anything else. What’s more important is the tea. Green tea and black tea are more suitable. I only have jasmine green tea at home, so the fragrance of jasmine is brewed. Try to avoid Pu'er tea, white tea, oolong tea and the like. #Take 10 minutes to make a dish!# Braised tea eggs Illustration of how to do it 5

Step 5

Pour the sauce into the cooking pot, add enough water, and add the beaten eggs to cover at least 60%. Cook over medium heat for 20-30 minutes and turn off the heat. The longer you cook it, the more flavorful it will be. Turn off the heat and let it sit overnight, and you can have it for breakfast the next day! Keep it refrigerated if you can’t finish it! Cooking tips for braised tea eggs

For those who want to make Taiwanese-style braised eggs, instead of adding tea leaves, you can stir-fry some pork belly and stew the sauce and meat flavor into the eggs, which will give you an endless aftertaste. To make braised eggs, you need to boil the eggs, peel off the shells, and make a few knife marks on the outer wall of the eggs. During the marinating process, the soup can pass through the egg whites and penetrate deep into the yolks, revealing the brown eggs, which are super delicious! If you like spicy food, you can put some dried chili peppers in the marinade. The marinade for boiling tea eggs can be reused, and the old soup can be sealed and refrigerated or frozen, which is a good way to save time.