Halloween Deviled Tea Eggs

Serve these Halloween Deviled Tea Eggs at your Halloween party. I'm pretty sure they would magically vanish.

This post and recipe were created for #HalloweenTreatsWeek! I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions are 100% mine. 

Chinese tea eggs are traditionally boiled twice, first in water, and then, after cracking the shells, in a mixture of tea, soy sauce, and spices. They are often sold by street vendors. They are subtly flavored with the fragrance of tea, the sweet dark soy sauce, and Chinese five-spice powder.

I've always wanted to try making these marbled tea eggs, but I've balked at the idea of simmering the eggs in the tea mixture for the one to two hours it normally takes for the tea mixture to permeate the cracks in the shells.

For these eggs, I decided to try soaking the cracked eggs in the tea mixture in the refrigerator overnight. It worked! The marbling was subtle, but the eggs were fragrant from the tea and spices, and the yolks were still bright yellow with no greenish tinge.

To crack the shells, you can tap the eggs on the counter, but not so hard that it cracks the eggs themselves or causes pieces of the shells to come off (I speak from experience). I found that using the back of a soup spoon to crack the eggshells worked pretty nicely. I only had one casualty.

You can serve marbled tea eggs as is with a little of the tea mixture mixed with a little mayo on the side, or you can have fun with them and make these fun Halloween-themed treats!

For fun, I used some candy eyes from Wilton to decorate the serving plate with the eggs. Cute, right? Check the candy eyes out on these Starfish Cookies.

How to make perfect hardboiled eggs:

Check out this post for Smoked Trout Deviled Eggs. This method works for me every time. The eggs peel easily, and the yolks never have any greenish tinge. 

After the recipe, be sure to check out the rest of the Halloween Treats Week recipes. They are amazing. If you love all things Halloween, you will love these recipes.

If you love this concept, you'll love my Chinese Tea Eggs. 

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Yield: 12 servingsAuthor: Karen Kerr

Halloween Deviled Tea Eggs

ingredients:

• 7 cups water
• 1/2 cup dark soy sauce, such as Pearl River Bridge
• 2 tablespoons chili oil
• 2 tablespoons loose black tea leaves (you can cut open tea bags)
• 1 tablespoon Chinese five-spice powder
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 12 large eggs
• 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
• 2 teaspoons Chinese mustard (you can mix it from the powder with water)
• 2 teaspoons Sriracha
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Orange gel food coloring
• Black sesame seeds for garnish

instructions

1. In a large saucepan, bring the water, soy sauce, chili oil, tea leaves, Chinese five-spice powder, salt, and sugar to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, uncover, and let cool. 
2. Hard boil the eggs (see note above), immediately chill them in ice water, and crack the shells with the back of a spoon or by tapping them on your kitchen counter. Completely submerge them in the tea mixture and refrigerate for 24 hours. 
3. Peel the eggs and cut a thin sliver of white off the wider bottom of the eggs so that the eggs can stand up. Slice the top off of the eggs and remove the yolks to a bowl. 
4. Mash the egg yolks with the mayonnaise, mustard, Chinese mustard, Sriracha, salt and pepper, and food coloring. 
5. Pipe the yolk mixture into the egg whites and garnish with the sesame seeds. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator until ready to serve. 

https://www.karenskitchenstories.com/2018/10/halloween-deviled-tea-eggs.html

Karen's Kitchen Stories, adapted from Food Network Magazine, Oct 2018

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