How to pickle tea salted duck eggs How to pickle tea salted duck eggs

Tea eggs are a traditional Chinese delicacy. They can usually be made with chicken eggs, and sometimes duck eggs. However, pickled tea salted duck eggs are relatively rare. Many people are puzzled by its pickling method. Today, the editor will introduce it to you in detail.

Pickled Tea Salted Duck Eggs Tutorial

Prepare the Materials

When pickling tea salted duck eggs, you need to prepare 20 to 30 grams of fresh duck eggs, 10 grams of green tea, and an appropriate amount of star anise, cinnamon and peppercorns. In addition, you need to prepare five or six slices of ginger, two to three bay leaves, 200 grams of dark soy sauce, 15 grams of cumin powder, and 20 grams of white sugar.

Marinating steps

1. Wash the prepared duck eggs with clean water, put them in a pot and add clean water to boil. After boiling, cook for about fifteen minutes and they will be cooked. After cooking, take them out and quickly put them in cold water. After about three minutes, take out and peel the duck eggs.

2. Prepare a clean toothpick and poke a few small holes in different parts of the peeled duck eggs. Wrap the prepared spices with a clean gauze, put them in a pot, add clean water and heat to cook. After boiling, put the processed duck eggs into the pot.

3. Continue to cook them together, turn off the heat after about 20 minutes. Don't open the lid at this time, let it cool down in the pot, and let the duck eggs soak in the soup for a while. After about seven or eight hours, the duck eggs will be seasoned. The longer the marinating time, the stronger the tea aroma and salty taste, and the better the taste will be when eaten.

Other approaches

There is also a relatively simple method for pickling tea salted duck eggs. Before making them, you need to go to the store to buy the seasoning packet of five-spice tea eggs. After returning home, prepare the duck eggs, wash the eggshells with clean water, put them in a pot and add clean water to boil. Put a handful of the seasoning packet in after the pot boils, and continue to cook. You can smell a rich aroma after about ten minutes. At this time, use a spoon to break the eggshells of the duck eggs in the pot, and then cook for about ten minutes and turn off the heat. Let the duck eggs marinate in the soup for about a day. The homemade tea salted duck eggs will be tasty, and you can remove the duck egg shells when you want to eat them.