Spiced Tea Quail Eggs

Overview

Tea eggs are a traditional snack. Generally, eggs are used to make tea eggs. This time I replaced them with small quail eggs. Because quail eggs are small, they are easier to taste and save time.

Tags

• snacks
• home cooking
• old man
• breakfast
• spring recipes
• cinnamon
• dried chili pepper
• light soy sauce
• old soy sauce
• quail eggs
• rock sugar
• star anise
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• fragrant leaves
• tea

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Raw material picture.

   

2. 2 Clean the quail eggs, boil them in cold water, take them out, crush the shells and set aside.

   

3. 3 Boil water in a pot, add tea leaves, star anise, cinnamon, peppercorns, bay leaves, and dried chili peppers and bring to a boil over high heat.

   

4. 4 Add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and appropriate amount of rock sugar and bring to a boil.

   

5. 5 Add prepared quail eggs.

   

6. 6 Cover the pot and simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes, then turn off the heat and soak for another 2 hours until the flavor is absorbed.