40+ Chinese Tea Egg Recipe Background. Traditionally, tea eggs need to be cooked twice. Tea egg 茶叶蛋 (a type of soy sauce egg 卤蛋 ) is a popular snack in the chinese community.
One by one, take each egg and tap it gently with the blunt end of a knife or the back of a spoon until the entire surface is lightly cracked.
A chinese tea egg has about 85 calories and about 6 g fat. A chinese tea egg (cháyèdàn) is a traditional snack food commonly sold by street vendors or in markets throughout chinese communities. If this is your first time trying tea eggs, i recommend making them as the recipe is written, but for a darker color and deeper flavor, you can also store the eggs in the cooled tea marinade overnight. The shell cracking method is an important feature in this recipe that not only lends to a beautiful design, but allows the tea and spices to seep into the egg.