IRON EGG

Taiwan unique and famous snack iron egg.they can be make from both quail egg or chicken egg. The dish consists the egg cooked and recooked many time.they shrink with multiple cooking time,and harden quite a bit making the egg white get very chewy,very flavour compared to boiled egg.

IRON EGG

Ingredients;
12 quail"s eggs
Condiment Ingredients;
5 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp rock sugar
2 star anise
some chinese five spice powder
2 stalk spring onion
5 pip garlic
600ml water.

Method:
1. wash quail egg surface until clean,cook in boiling water until it is cooked thoroughly,remove the shell.
2.Boil all the condiment ingredients in pot,put in the hard boiled quail egg and cook over low heat for about 30 min,dish out and set in on a shallow plate,put it in airing area and allow it to air dry naturally.
3.by then put air dried quail egg back into condiment,continue to cook over heat for another 30 mins,again remove it and set in plate to air dry,repeat this step for 8 to ten rounds,until the outer layer of quail egg darken and the texture becomes slightly elastic,only then it is done.
note; when the condiment water getting lesser by cooking a few times,add some water and bit of black soy sauce.depend on how dark and chewy you want your quail egg to be.