Tea Eggs

Tea Eggs, originally uploaded by Lakenvelder.

These eggs had light brown shells before i cooked them and now look at them. Wow. these are so easy to make!! Do not worry about the teas taste is only taste very lighly or tea and you moslty have a eff taste. There are many recipes out there but I came up with my own with the ingredients I had on had using another recipe. You use black tea and can use any type you like.

Tea Eggs (cha ye dan)

6 eggs
5 tablespoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons alt
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tablespoons black tea or 2 tea bags
1 teaspoon Chinese 5 spice mix



Put the eggs into a suacepan with enoght cold water to cover. Bring to a boil, and then simmer for 2 minutes.

Remove the eggs. with a knife tap each egg to slighly crack the shells into two or three places ( you can roll them on a towel) . Place them back in a sucepan.

Add the other ingredients and stir. cover and simmer for 3 hours, adding water as necessary. Drain, serve hot or cold.