Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu
Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, black tea marinated eggs & tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

One of my favorite dishes when I head back home; it combines hard-boiled eggs with the subtle flavor of anise and the deep brown hues of black tea and soy. The cracked patterns from the broken shells make these quite attractive! I eat these sliced in quarters and chilled as a side dish, appetizer, or snack.

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To begin with this particular 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 cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu:
  1. Get 8 eggs
  2. Prepare 1 pack hard tofu
  3. Take 1 tsp peppercorn
  4. Make ready 1 tbsp sichuan peppers
  5. Get 25 g cubed rock sugar
  6. Prepare 2 slices crushed ginger
  7. Prepare 10 g cinnamon
  8. Make ready 4 star anise
  9. Make ready 4 bay leaves
  10. Prepare 4-5 black tea bags
  11. Get 80 ml dark soy sauce
  12. Make ready 40 ml soy sauce
  13. Prepare 1 tbsp salt
  14. Get 30 g rice wine/cooking wine
  15. Prepare 1 liter water

Tea eggs are usually infused with a number of spices, so there's room to play around with flavor combinations. Chinese tea eggs, traditionally served during Chinese New Year celebrations, are easy to make. Simply prepare some boiled eggs and steep them in tea marinade. After a few hours, you can enjoy the flavourful and tasty eggs for tea time.

Instructions to make Black Tea Marinated Eggs & Tofu:
  1. Boil the eggs (medium heat) for about 5 minutes. Cool it down with cold water, let it sit while preparing the pot of marinade
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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!

Which leads me to this soft Chinese Tea Egg recipe. I was looking to emulate the method that the Japanese use to boil eggs for ramen. The cooking method is pretty ingenious, as these eggs turn out flavorful yet soft in the middle. I decided to borrow the technique and did a little daring revamp on traditional Chinese tea eggs. Chinese Tea Eggs Cooked in a flavorful marinade of soy sauce, star anise, and cinnamon, these tea-stained eggs are a Lunar New Year staple and a favorite everyday snack in China.

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