Marbled Eggs

by Sweet Pea · Published September 27, 2019 · Updated September 27, 2019

This is a staple snack in China, popular in many provinces. Or, you can turn these into healthy kid friendly breakfast on the go.

It’s essentially soy sauce, tea and spices infused hard boiled eggs. This simple process gives boring hard boiled eggs really nice and rich deep flavor and aroma, paint the eggs with this very artistic marble looking designs and it is so fun to look at and eat.
The making process is super easy, literally not much more than hard boiled eggs.

Ingredients:
8 free range eggs

1 cinnamon stick

2 or 3 star anise

2 bay leaves

1/4 cup of soy sauce

2 TBSP dark soy sauce for color

optional, 2 tea bags, any mild flavor kind, such as green tea, jasmine tea, black tea or red tea, I used earl grey, that’s what I had on hand.

Method:

Fill a pot with cold tap water and carefully put the eggs into the water. Ensure the water just cover eggs. Put the pot on the stove, on high heat, drop in all the spices and soy sauces.

Bring the pot to a boil, kill the heat, put the lid on and let the eggs sit for 10 minutes.
Use 2 spoons, one to scoop up an egg from the liquid, use the back of the other spoon to lightly tap on the eggs and crack the shell. Rotate the egg until all sides of the shell is cracked. No need to hit hard, the goal is to crack the shell so the flavor and color can seep into the egg shell cracks and give the lovely marble design and the rich flavor to the eggs.

Once the egg is cracked all the way around, put it back into the broth. Repeat until all the eggs are cracked. Leave the eggs on the stove over night, or put in the fridge for up to 3 days.