This recipe uses 6 eggs but feel free to make as many or as few as you like!
Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- pinch of salt
- 2 black tea bags (or 1 tbsp black tea leaves)
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- whole cloves, cinnamon & orange peel or ¼ cup mulling spices (allspice berries removed)
- 4 star anise
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- 1 small stick cinnamon (optional)
How-to
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Place eggs in a saucepan of cold water. Add a pinch of salt. Water level should be at least 1½" higher than eggs. Bring to a rolling boil, turn off the heat, cover and let sit for 4 minutes
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Remove the eggs and rinse with cold water. With the back of a spoon, tap each egg to slightly crackle the shells
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Return eggs to a saucepan of clean cold water
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Add tea bags, soy sauce, star anise, mulling spices and fennel seeds and stir. Bring to a boil, lower heat, cover and simmer for 1 hour, adding water as necessary
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Remove eggs from the pot, peel and serve warm or cold
Notes
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Cook longer for a stronger flavor and a deeper color
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Sauce can be frozen and reused
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