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Ingredients
Soft-boiled eggs
- 6 eggs, B-sized, with shell
- water, to fill to 1L mark
- ice water, for cooling eggs
Marinade
- 900 g water
- 1 nutmeg, cracked open
- 2 dried bay leaves
- 1 Chinese black cardamom pod (cao guo), cracked open
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 star anise
- 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns
- 100 g white onion, cut in pieces
- 50 g dark soy sauce
- 60 g light soy sauce
- 5 g salt (about 1 tsp)
- 30 g sugar
- Nutrition
- per 1 piece
- Calories
- 305.8 kJ / 73.2 kcal
- Protein
- 6.7 g
- Carbohydrates
- 2 g
- Fat
- 4.3 g
- Saturated Fat
- 1.4 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 168.1 mg
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