Tea egg

Easy, Leftovers

Source: Souped Up Recipes [7]

Ingredients

• 6-10 eggs Eggs

• 2-3 black teabags, or 10g of leaves

• Two tablespoons of dark Soy sauce, but any kind is fine

• Two tablespoons of sugar Sugar

• Salt to taste, I add no salt

Aromatics:

• One big slice of ginger

• Two cloves of garlic

Spices:

• 3 pieces of Star anise

• 1 stalk of Cinnamon

• Sichuan peppercorns

• Fennel seeds

Steps

Get a large pot of boiling water, add the eggs and boil for 5 minutes. Immediately remove the eggs to a cold bath. Add all of the rest of the ingredients back to the pot and simmer.

Smack the eggs with the blunt side of a spoon, forming cracks all around. Add them back to the pot, and simmer for 30 minutes.

Cut the heat, and leave it steeping overnight, then peel the eggs and fridge them.

Note

The eggs can be simmered basically indefinitely, go crazy.