Herbal Tea Eggs Recipe (茶叶蛋)

Published on June 4, 2014 | By Foodclappers |

- Cook Time
- 180 Minutes
- Difficulty Level

This rich and fragrant Chinese herbal tea egg recipe was contributed by a Taiwanese friend. Her herbal tea egg is always full of praise from loved ones, friends and even acquaintance. She is always remembered as 茶蛋妹 (tea egg lady).

Recipe contributed by:
Ms Sunny
Taiwan

Recipe Rating

(4.7 /5)
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Ingredients

25 eggs
Buy any brand of ready-made herbal egg ingredients
300g red dates
5-10g radix anglicae sinensia (optional)
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoon dark soya sauce
2 tablespoon light soya sauce
40g rock sugar
Water level – enough to cover all the eggs

Instructions

1. Wash the eggs and put eggs into a large pot to boil for 15 minutes.
2. Bring water to a boil in another pot, add in herbal egg ingredients, red dates and radix anglicae sinensia (optional).
3. Lightly crack the eggs shell and transfer the eggs into the herbal water pot.
4. Turn on medium flame for about 15minutes to boil the eggs.
5. Lower the flame to continue to cook for another 45 minutes.
6. Add in salt, dark and light soya sauce and sugar.
7. Continue to simmer the eggs in low flame for 2 hours.
8. Serve or transfer the eggs to slow cooker or rice cooker to keep warm.