Referring to famous Chinese dishes, many people know about Bac Thao eggs. But, How to make herbal eggs Not everyone knows how, because this egg dish has a very special way of making. In this article, Long Phuong Porcelain I will share with you the steps to make Bac Thao eggs and suggest you some of the most delicious ways to prepare this egg dish to enjoy!
1. How to make herbal eggs in 5 simple steps
Ingredients to prepare (for 30 eggs)
- Duck eggs: 30 eggs
- Brimstone powder: 1/2 teaspoon
- Cinnamon powder: 3 teaspoons
- Cloves: 1/2 teaspoon
- Long tea: 50gr
- Spiny amaranth: 1 bunch
- Cypress leaves: 40 leaves
- Alum: 3 teaspoons
- Bodhi: 4 - 5 fruits
You can buy brimstone powder and cypress leaves at traditional medicine stores. Alum can be easily purchased at grocery stores.
Bac Thao eggs can be made from duck eggs, chicken eggs or quail eggs. You can choose depending on your dietary preferences. Duck eggs are usually larger and fatter than chicken eggs. When making herbal eggs, they will be greasy and very delicious.
You can check the quality of duck eggs by:
- Shake the egg: If the egg does not make a sound, it is a new egg. If the egg is old, there will be a small sound.
- Drop eggs into salt water: Sinking eggs are good eggs
Come on, let's start making herbal eggs!
Steps to make herbal eggs
Step 1: Soak duck eggs
After buying and washing duck eggs, drain them and soak them in a solution of 1 liter of water and 3 teaspoons of alum. Soaking time is about 3 days.
After 3 days, the egg white will turn transparent like jelly, liquid red and yellow.
Step 2: Prepare the soaking mud mixture
First, you take cloves and grind them (can be grilled or not).
Brew tea with 800ml of boiling water. Squeeze out the juice and discard the residue.
Burn the amaranth to get ash, then mix it with cinnamon powder and brimstone powder.
Finally, mix it all together to get a soaking mud mixture.
Step 3: Cover with mud
After 3 days of soaking the duck eggs in alum water, take the eggs out and wipe clean. Use a brush or your hands to spread the mud mixture over the entire egg and then roll it evenly through the rice husk layer.
Step 4: Incubate eggs
Put the eggs in a sealed jar or jar, or you can dig a hole and bury the eggs directly in the ground. The eggs are incubated for 3 - 5 months, the mud layer will dry. You can take it out and eat it gradually.
Step 5: Enjoy
Bac Thao eggs, after 3-5 months of soaking in mud, are black. The outer shell is transparent and soft, the inner layer is fatty. Because the incubation time for eggs is very long, you need to determine the occasion when you want to eat herbal eggs, from there, we can make eggs at the right time.
In addition, each time you make Chinese eggs, you should also make a large quantity of eggs to eat gradually.
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2. Video instructions on how to cook Chinese eggs?
3. Origin and uses of Bac Thao eggs
When is the origin of corn eggs?
Bac Thao eggs originate from China and are called by many names such as Botanical eggs, Bac Ninh eggs, and Natural Botanical eggs. This dish is considered the black pearl of Chinese cuisine, with a very unique and distinct flavor.
The mixture of "mud" ingredients used depends on the region. However, the main indispensable ingredients when making Bac Thao eggs from past to present are burned coal ash, salt, slaked lime, rice husks, and in some places, mixed with black tea or mud... It is these special ingredients that have made creates a beautiful black color for botanical eggs. The longer the eggs are incubated, the darker, more delicious and fatty they become, and on the outer layer there can be beautiful natural patterns like snowflakes.
Is it good to eat Chinese eggs?
In Chinese cuisine, this egg dish is used as an appetizer or combined with vegetables. Botanical eggs are known for many health benefits such as:
- Lung Lung: Bac Thao eggs are rich in vitamin A, nourish blood, enhance immunity, and prevent respiratory diseases.
- Relieving heat: With a light taste and yin properties, Bac Thao eggs have the effect of clearing heat for people
- Alcohol relief: Botanical eggs have extremely good hangover relief properties, helping to reduce the amount of alcohol in the stomach, reduce blood poisoning, relieve headaches, blush...
- Hemostasis: Northern herbs eggs have the ability to increase red blood cell production and effectively stop bleeding. Therefore, Bac Thao eggs are very good for women who have just given birth or those with irregular menstruation.
4. How to eat Chinese eggs properly?
Eat herbal eggs directly
The eggs are fermented underground for many months, so they are transformed into cooked eggs that can be used directly without boiling. Depending on your taste, you can eat it directly or process it into many different dishes.
You should eat 3-4 eggs per week
Chinese eggs are very good for people who: do heavy labor and sweat a lot; people with hemophilia; Women with irregular menstruation, postpartum anemia...
Although it has many good health benefits, according to nutritionists' recommendations, you should only eat a maximum of 3-4 fruits per week, which can be eaten at any meal of the day. Eating too much will cause indigestion, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity...
Subjects should not eat a lot of herbal eggs
- Pregnant women: With high cholesterol and salt content, pregnant women should not eat a lot of Chinese eggs, as they are susceptible to high blood pressure, causing preeclampsia.
- Children under 3 years old: their weak digestive system makes it difficult to digest foods rich in nutrients such as Bac Thao eggs, easily causing digestive disorders, bloating and indigestion...
- Elderly people: high salt content in Chinese eggs is also not good for the elderly, increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
Arrange and enjoy Chinese eggs
Bac Thao eggs have a characteristic jet black color, and will become much more beautiful when placed in pristine white porcelain plates from Long Phuong Porcelain. You can use white round plate simple or flower plate, Scallop-shaped plate, stylized twisted disc. Add a little pickled string, cilantro to decorate around the plate, and you have a plate of Chinese eggs that is both delicious and beautiful!
Types Long Phuong white ceramic plate A great choice for you to get delicious food, beautifully presented and safe for your family's health.
- Long Phuong Porcelain's dishes are crafted from selected natural materials, carefully selected for their ingredients, and fired at temperatures up to 1380 degrees Celsius to help make the porcelain bones strong, durable, and resistant to heat shock. Good, safe to use in microwave and dishwasher.
- Long Phuong Porcelain's products are safe for users' health, do not contain heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, are not catalyzed by chemicals, and do not change the taste of food.
- The shiny outer enamel layer not only helps the dishes are more beautiful, but also protects dishes from scratches and makes cleaning easy.
5. Some ways to prepare delicious Chinese eggs
Northern herbs eggs have a special flavor that not everyone can eat the first time. When you smell it, you will find that Northern herbs eggs have a pungent smell. However, when you eat it, you will feel the greasy, fleshy, and slightly salty taste from the egg yolk inside. The outer shell of the botanical egg is very soft, chewy, and very pleasant to eat.
Botanical eggs are difficult to eat for some people who don't like heavy tastes. However, once you like it, it's hard to stop because the herbal eggs have a very appealing flavor. You can eat eggs immediately after peeling without boiling them or prepare them with other dishes to make them easier to eat such as Chinese egg porridge, Chinese egg crab soup, Chinese egg tofu, Chinese egg rolls, rice. fried eggs with herbs…
Hopefully with the method of making Bac Thao eggs that Porcelain Long Phuong shares above, you will have a special Chinese dish for your family menu. Good luck!
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