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🇨🇳 Chinese · 🏙️ Beijing

🥚 Tea Eggs (Cha Ye Dan)

6 servings · 90 min

The dish's story

China's most famous Peking roast duck institution, founded in 1864 and credited with developing the hung-oven roasting method that gives the duck its golden, crisp skin.

📋 Wikipedia

🍴 Traditional Chinese street-snack recipe — Quanjude

📋 recipe source: The Woks of Life

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Ingredients

  • eggs 6
  • black tea leaves 2 tbsp
  • light soy sauce 1/3 cup
  • dark soy sauce 2 tbsp
  • star anise 2
  • cinnamon stick 1 small
  • Sichuan peppercorns 1 tsp
  • rock sugar or brown sugar 2 tbsp

Method

  1. 1 Hard-boil the eggs 8 minutes, cool in ice water, then gently crack the shells all over (keep shell on).
  2. 2 Simmer tea, soy sauces, spices, sugar, and 2 cups water 5 minutes.
  3. 3 Add the cracked eggs and simmer on low 1 hour, turning occasionally.
  4. 4 Steep off heat at least 30 minutes (or overnight) for deeper marbling. Peel and serve.
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