Create a classic and unforgettable Beginning of Summer Egg = Spiced Tea Egg

Overview

Time flies like water, and summer begins in a blink of an eye. Spring in the South is very short, just like the fleeting years of youth. Every year, it seems to flash from winter to summer, skipping the most beautiful and comfortable spring. It's hard to react, and it jumps to the furnace-like hot summer. Speaking of the Beginning of Summer; the Beginning of Summer in 2015 is May 6, which is the eighteenth day of March (small) in the lunar calendar of 2015. It marks the end of spring and the beginning of summer. This day was called the end of spring in ancient times. These simple and clear words herald the end of spring. Traditionally, people often regard the Beginning of Summer as an important solar term when the temperature rises significantly, the heat is approaching, thunderstorms increase, and crops enter the peak growth season. The most classic food during the Beginning of Summer is the Beginning of Summer egg. The ancients believed that eggs are round and smooth, symbolizing the perfection of life. Eating eggs at the beginning of summer can pray for peace in summer and withstand the test of summer. The Beginning of Summer usually falls in the fourth month of the lunar calendar. Eggs in April are as cheap as vegetables. People put the eggs in leftover Qijia tea and boil them to become tea eggs. As the saying goes, eggs are hung on the breasts at the beginning of summer, and children will not survive the summer. It means that as the temperature rises and hot summer approaches, children are particularly prone to physical fatigue, weakness of limbs, loss of appetite, and gradual weight loss. This is the symptom of summer heat. It is said that as long as you eat eggs on the day of the Beginning of Summer, you can prevent this disease. Of course, no one knows who this statement came from, but after being passed down from generation to generation, it eventually became a custom at the beginning of summer, and eating eggs is good for the heart, which coincides with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine that the beginning of summer nourishes the heart.

Tags

• snacks
• home cooking
• old man
• breakfast
• beginning of summer
• chili
• cinnamon
• cooking wine
• egg
• light soy sauce
• old soy sauce
• refined salt
• star anise
• tieguanyin
• white sugar
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• cumin

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Choose small eggs and use free-range eggs to taste better.

   

2. 2 In a bowl, add Tieguanyin, salt, sugar, Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon, cooking wine, cumin, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and chili pepper. Rinse the marinade with water and set aside.

   

3. 3 Place the eggs in a basin, clean them and set aside.

   

4. 4 Add salt to the pot, add water and cook the eggs until the egg whites solidify. Boil the egg water over medium heat first, then lower the heat and cook for 5 minutes. The first time you cook whole eggs, you don't need to overcook them; about five minutes is enough.

   

5. 5 Pour water into the pot and bring to a boil, add Tieguanyin to soak. I ran out of black tea at home; I weighed between Tieguanyin and green tea, and finally decided to use Tieguanyin.

   

6. 6 When Tieguanyin bubbles until the color and aroma are fragrant, add the washed marinade.

   

7. 7 Add cooking wine.

   

8. 8 Add an appropriate amount of dark soy sauce. The color of dark soy sauce is darker, and Tieguanyin also has a coloring effect. Be careful when adding dark soy sauce.

   

9. 9 You can add light soy sauce or extremely fresh flavor, mainly to enhance the freshness.

   

10. 10 You can add light soy sauce or extremely fresh flavor, mainly to enhance the freshness.

    

11. 11 After the eggs are cooked, take them out and soak them in cold water for 2 minutes, then gently break them with a spoon until the skin and membranes are connected to each other. Crack the eggs lightly so that each egg has cracks, so that the flavor will be absorbed easily during cooking and the cooking time will not take too long.

    

12. 12 Put the beaten eggs into the marinade pot.

    

13. 13 Add water to cover the eggs, bring to a boil over high heat and then heat over low heat for 10 minutes. Don't cook the eggs for too long, otherwise they won't taste good if they're too hard.

    

14. 14 Wait five hours after turning off the heat before eating. The main purpose is to allow the marinade to slowly penetrate into the eggs during the cooling process.