first attempt at tea eggs!

[glass_icarus]

Rather than look up a recipe (because lazy), I decided to just eyeball everything. According to my sister's research, the key ingredients are soy sauce, star anise (or five-spice, which includes it), and tea. I estimate that I used about half a cup of soy sauce and maybe 2 tsp of five-spice? for six hardboiled eggs, and enough water to completely cover them. I was loath to waste the good looseleaf my parents got from Taiwan, so I put in used black tea after I made several brews this morning.

I cracked and only partially peeled the eggs, getting rid of the membrane under the peeled bits for better absorption. Leaving them in my rice pot (not cooking, but warming) for the day; I'm curious to see the results!