Description
Hard-boiled peeled eggs long-simmered in star-anise-scented Lu Zhi infused with pork umami. Unlike Japanese flavored eggs, the whites are characteristically firm and tight.
Restaurants serving Braised Egg (Lu Dan)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Chicken eggs
- Lu Zhi infused with pork umami
- Soy sauce
- Rock sugar
- Star anise
- Cinnamon
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Perfect Hard-Boiled Egg] Bring chicken eggs to room temp, boil firmly from cold water for ~
- mins into 'hard-boiled eggs'. Taiwan Lu Dan must be hard-boiled, not soft, to withstand long simmering. Ice-shock and peel shells cleanly.
- [Lao Lu Sharing Meat Umami] Eggs yield no dashi, so absolutely share the soup of 'rich Lao Lu (soy/rock sugar/star anise/cinnamon base)' from a pot simmering braised pork (Kong Rou) or pork feet (Zhu Jiao), or simmer together.
- [Contraction & Coloring Simmer] Toss eggs in soup, simmer on low ~
- mins. Cook until white moisture escapes slightly and surface tightens brown and hard.
- [Flavor Penetration via Temp Diff] Turn off heat, let cool slowly overnight (at least half a day) completely submerged in soup. This process lets star anise aroma and soy saltiness pierce the white reaching the yolk core, completing the beautiful amber 'Taiwan Braised Egg'.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Sweet medicinal aroma of star anise and cinnamon
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Quail eggs (Lu Niaodan: bite-sized snack)
Pairing
Lu Rou Fan(essential companion)、Taiwan railway bento
Trivia
[For Everyone] The ultimate companion sitting on Taiwan national foods 'Lu Rou Fan' or 'Pai Gu Fan' with almost 100% probability even unasked. Different vector from Japanese gooey soft-boiled flavored eggs; the white's 'bouncy' hard texture and the rustic yolk that takes your moisture perfectly reset greasy Taiwanese dishes.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Place on Lu Rou Fan, split white with chopsticks, coat fluffy yolk gooey-ly with sweet/spicy pork meat juice (Lu Rou Zhi) to shovel down with rice!
Allergen
Egg, Soy, Wheat (from soy sauce)