During Qingming Festival, girls must eat Ai-flavored tea eggs to ward off the cold and warm the pala
mugwort head 8 | Grass eggs 12 pieces |
Ingredients: fragrant leaves 4 tablets | Star anise 2 |
Cinnamon 2 grams | Cumin 2 grams |
Peppercorns 3 grams | Rock Sugar 30g |
Table salt 20 grams | Soy sauce (dark soy sauce) 18 grams |
Light soy sauce 30g | Black tea 5 grams |
Clear water 800g |
Step 1
Prepare the ingredients, fresh mugwort heads, and you can use grass eggs or foreign eggs for the eggs. Grass eggs are more nutritious and the ingredients should be mixed well. Many friends are not sure how much to put in, so you can use an electronic scale to weigh it.Step 2
Put the eggs into water and wash the shells. If they are eggs just taken out of the refrigerator, you can soak them in water and let them warm up before adding them to the pot.Step 3
Put the washed eggs into a pot and bring to a boil over high heat, then turn off the heat and simmer for five minutes and take them out.Step 4
When boiling eggs, we put all the ingredients except rock sugar, salt and soy sauce into a bowl. After washing them, soak them in warm water for easy flavor, and clean the mugwort.Step 5
Use a spoon to crack the hard-boiled eggs and set aside. Pour the soaked ingredients and water into the water used to cook the eggs.Step 6
Add rock sugar, salt, soy sauce, and light soy sauce, cover with lid and cook until boiling.Step 7
Open the lid, put the cracked eggs into the pot, and put the wormwood into the pot.Step 8
Cover the lid and bring to a boil again, then turn down the heat and simmer for five minutes, then turn off the heat and the Aixiang tea eggs are ready.Step 9
After cooking, simmer it in the soup for 10 hours to make it taste better. I often cook it at night and use it for breakfast in the morning. The taste is just right.Step 10
The fragrant and moderately salty five-spice tea eggs warm the palace and dispel the cold and are delicious. Girls must eat Ai-flavored tea eggs to ward off the cold and warm the palace during Qingming Festival. Cooking tips1. Boiled eggs with mugwort is a traditional custom of Qingming Festival in Shandong. It is just that we usually boil boiled eggs with mugwort and no salt. This time we add five-spice seasoning, and the taste is delicious.
2. Don’t cook eggs for too long, otherwise they won’t taste good if they are overcooked. Tea eggs mainly rely on soaking to get the flavor. The key is to soak them in the soup.
3. For boiling tea egg soup, remove the wormwood and refrigerate it in the refrigerator. The next time you boil eggs, you can reuse it to save waste.