Name: Spiced Tea Egg
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 10 egg; 1 small packet Tieguanyin; a little chili; Some Soy sauce; Some Fennel; 1 tablespoon Cooking Wine; 1 Cinnamon; 25 capsules pepper; 3 cloves star anise; 3 tablespoons Sugar; 4 tablespoons Refined salt

Spiced Tea Egg

by GODOFMERCY

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

Time is like running water, and the summer begins in a blink of an eye. The spring in the south is very short, like the fleeting years of youth, every year it seems to flash directly from winter to summer, past the most beautiful and comfortable spring. People couldn't react to it, so they jumped into the stove-like hot summer.
Speaking of Lixia; the time of Lixia in 2015 is May 6, the eighteenth of March (small) in the lunar calendar 2015. It marks the departure of spring and the beginning of summer. This day was called "the end of spring" in ancient times. The simple and clear words indicate the end of spring. Traditionally, people often regard Lixia as an important solar term when the temperature rises significantly, the summer heat is approaching, thunderstorms increase, and crops enter the peak season to grow.
Lixia’s most classic food is "Lixia Eggs". The ancients believed that eggs were round and smooth, which symbolized the completeness of life. Eating eggs in the summer can pray for the safety of summer and endure the test of "summer summer". Lixia is usually in April of the lunar calendar, "April eggs are as cheap as vegetables". People put their eggs into the leftover "Qijia Tea" and boil them to become "tea eggs".
As the saying goes, "Li Xia has eggs on her breasts, and children don't scroful in summer". It means that as the temperature rises and the scorching summer approaches step by step, children are particularly prone to fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, and gradual weight loss. This is the symptom of "Sexia". It is said that as long as you eat eggs on the day of Lixia, you can prevent This disease. Of course, no one knows this kind of statement, but it has been passed down through generations and eventually became the custom of Lixia, and "eating eggs and cheering heart" coincides with the theory of "Lixia nourishing the heart" in TCM theory.

Spiced Tea Egg

1. Pick a small egg and a bit of soil is good for the taste. Fill a bowl with Tieguanyin, salt, sugar, pepper, star anise, cinnamon, cooking wine, cumin, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and chili. Rinse the halogen material with clean water for later use.

2. Put the eggs in the basin and clean them for later use. Put the eggs in the basin and clean them for later use.

3. Pour water into the pot to boil, add Tieguanyin to soak. There is no black tea at home; after weighing between Tieguanyin and green tea, I finally decided to use Tieguanyin. When the Tieguanyin bubble is full of color and aroma, put in the washed halogen material.

4. Put in the cooking wine. Put in the right amount of the dark soy sauce, the dark soy sauce is darker, and Tieguanyin also has the effect of coloring, so you need to be careful when you put it in.

5. You can add light soy sauce or extremely fresh flavors, mainly for freshness. Put in sugar. After all the ingredients are put in; bring it to a boil. Put the beaten eggs into the marinade pot.

6. After the eggs are cooked, remove them and soak them in cold water for 2 minutes, then gently break them with a spoon until the egg membranes are connected to each other. Tap the eggs to make each egg have cracks, so that it is easy to taste when cooked, and it does not take too long to cook. Put the beaten eggs into the marinade pot.

7. Add water to submerge the eggs, then boil on high heat and heat them on low heat for another 10 minutes. Don't cook the eggs for too long, they won't taste too hard. Only eat after five hours after turning off the heat. The main reason is to slowly soak the marinade into the eggs during the cooling process.

Tips:
1. After the eggs are cooked, remove them and soak them in cold water for 2 minutes, then gently break them with a spoon until the egg membranes are connected to each other. Tap the eggs to make each egg have cracks, so that it is easy to taste when cooked, and it does not take too long to cook.
2. Pick a small egg and a little bit of earthen egg to taste.
3. Add water to submerge the egg, then boil on high heat and heat it on low heat for another 10 minutes. Don't cook the eggs for too long, they won't taste too hard.
4. Only eat after five hours after turning off the heat. The main reason is to slowly soak the marinade into the eggs during the cooling process.
Note: Experts point out that tea and eggs should be eaten less, because tea contains acidified substances, which combine with iron in eggs, which will stimulate the stomach and affect the digestive function of the gastrointestinal tract. [Experts recommend eating less tea eggs; what the experts say~~~~]