Smoked eggs - a product with an original taste, which can not always be found on the counter in the store.
And the price for him in terms of a dozen is quite biting. Therefore, it is much more interesting and profitable to cook smoked testicles at home.
Smoked Eggs - General Cooking Principles
The easiest way to cook smoked eggs is to put it in a smokehouse with other products. Find a place among the fat or fish, spread boiled eggs and after a couple of hours you can enjoy a delicacy. But if desired, it can be easily prepared separately.
Three components of successful smoking:
1. High-quality eggs.
2. The presence of smoke or domestic counterpart.
3. Good mood.
And for those who do not have the opportunity to produce a classic smoking, there is a wonderful product - liquid smoke, with which you can quickly and easily make an aromatic snack. Food colors are used to impart color, but it is better to take a natural analogue — onion peel.
In addition to eggs and smoking equipment, you may need fragrant spices, good sawdust (preferably from fruit trees or alder), foil, but it all depends on the chosen method of preparation and is indicated in the recipe. Store smoked eggs preferably in the refrigerator, in a tightly closed container no more than a week, but it is better to use immediately.
Recipe 1: Classic Smoked Eggs
Prepared in the smoking machine without any additives and fragrant spices. Such smoked eggs are used in various snacks and Minsk salad, the recipe of which is given below. But you can simply use in its pure form, with various sauces and spices.
Ingredients Required
• 10 eggs;
• 3 tablespoons of salt;
• litere of water.
Cooking method
1. Boil eggs for 5-6 minutes. Then pour it with cold water, cool it and clean it from the shell.
2. Preparing saline solution, put the eggs and stand for 2-3 hours.
3. We take out of the water, wipe dry with napkins, lay the smokehouse on the grate and cook until the surface becomes golden brown.
Similarly, you can cook smoked eggs in the shell, but the taste and aroma of the purified product is much brighter.
Recipe 2: Smoked Eggs
The peculiarity of cooking these eggs is soaking in a special marinade that enriches the taste of the product. Popular molodetsky eggs of the Belarusian Soligorsk poultry farm are prepared according to this technology.
Ingredients Required
• eggs;
• 3 spoons of sugar;
• 2 tablespoons of salt;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• mustard spoon;
• litere of water;
• black pepper.
Cooking method
1. Eggs are immersed in cold water, put on the stove, bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes, cool, clean from the shell.
2. From the water, salt and sugar, boil the brine, cool. Add chopped garlic, a spoon of mustard, a little black pepper to taste. If you wish, you can add any other spices.
3. Dip eggs in marinade, withstand at least 5 hours. Then rinse with running water to wash the spices off the surface, wipe dry or dry them in air.
4. Put in the smokehouse and cook in a cold way for 2-3 hours, hot for 20-30 minutes. The time depends on the temperature in the unit and you can simply focus on the color of the product.
Recipe 3: Smoked Eggs with Liquid Smoke
Fragrant, extremely tasty and beautiful smoked eggs cooked in a simplified way. The recipe is a large number of spices, but if you want, you can exclude some of them or replace them with other seasonings.
Ingredients Required
• 5 -7 boiled eggs;
• 2 spoons of liquid smoke;
• 10 peppercorns;
• a piece of ginger;
• 0.7 liters of water;
• 1 spoon of salt;
• 1.5 tablespoons of sugar;
• a handful of onion peel;
• small onion.
Cooking method
1. Put the saucepan on the stove with water, bring to a boil.
2. Grind the onion, pour it into the pan, add all other spices, chopped ginger and onion peel. Bring to a boil, cook for 5 minutes, remove from heat, strain the broth and cool to room temperature. Add liquid smoke.
3. Eggs are cleaned, put in the prepared broth and hold for 4-5 hours. You can put in the fridge for the night. Then remove the eggs, wipe and can be served at the table or used to prepare various dishes.
Recipe 4: Smoked Quail Eggs
You can cook not only chicken smoked eggs, but also quail. They are much more useful and interesting look on the table. And in salads and appetizers they can be put in whole or cut in half. Option cooking smoked eggs with liquid smoke, which is used for coloring tea brewing.
Ingredients Required
• 10 quail eggs;
• 0.5 liters of water;
• 2 teaspoons tea leaves;
• 1 spoon of liquid smoke;
• 1 spoon of salt;
• 5 allspice peppers.
Cooking method
• Boil quail eggs for 3 minutes, cool and clean.
• Cooking a decoction of water, spices, tea brew. Boil it all together for 1-2 minutes, then insist, filter and pour it back into the pan. Add liquid smoke.
• Put the peeled quail eggs in the broth, bring to a boil, turn off the stove and leave to cool completely. Then remove from the liquid and dry.
Similarly, you can cook and chicken eggs, you need only add the time of the first boiling up to 5 minutes. This method is good because it does not require long marinating the product.
Recipe 5: Hot smoked eggs in 7 minutes
The option of cooking smoked eggs for those who do not have a smokehouse, but wants to enjoy the product with this smoke. It will take a large cauldron and lattice, which can be placed at a height of 10-15 cm from the bottom.
Ingredients Required
Boiled eggs in any quantity.
For the marinade:
• Spoon of salt;
• black pepper;
• asterisk cloves;
• pinch of coriander;
• 1 liter of water.
For smoking:
• a handful of sawdust;
• sugar cube;
• teaspoon of tea leaves.
Cooking method
1. Prepare the marinade from the spices and one liter of water, boil for 3-4 minutes, cool.
2. Fill the peeled eggs with marinade and leave for 1 hour.
3. We put foil on the bottom of the pot, pour sawdust, put a piece of sugar and tea brew. If the sawdust is completely dry, then you need to sprinkle with water. Turn the stove on the middle fire.
4. Remove the eggs from the marinade, spread on a wire rack. Cover the pot with a lid. As soon as smoke appears, we mark 7 minutes and turn off the stove. We leave smoked eggs to stand for an hour and you can take a sample.
Recipe 6: Classic Minsk salad with smoked eggs
The salad recipe, in which smoked eggs are an indispensable ingredient. Some housewives improvise and try to replace this product with smoked cheese, but the taste is not the same.
Ingredients Required
• smoked eggs 4 pcs .;
• 0.3 kg Peking cabbage;
• 0.2 kg of ham;
• 0.15 kg of cheese;
• 0.15 kg salted cucumbers;
• mayonnaise for refueling;
• 70 gr. pine nuts.
Cooking method
1. Beijing cabbage shred is not very shallow. Instead, you can also use iceberg lettuce.
2. Cut ham, cucumbers and cheese into thin strips. Eggs are also straws, but thicker so that it keeps its shape.
3. Mix everything with mayonnaise, put it in a salad bowl and fill with pine nuts on top. If desired, they can be replaced by cashews.
Recipe 7: Salad with smoked eggs and salmon "Fireworks"
Unusually bright and beautiful salad with smoked quail eggs. Also includes fresh vegetables and salted salmon. As a dressing, light sauce based on olive oil and lemon juice. Sheet salad is also used, but you can add any greens to taste.
Ingredients Required
• smoked quail eggs 5-7;
• 0.15 kg of salted salmon;
• red onion;
• 1 sweet pepper, better yellow;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 15 olives;
• a bunch of lettuce.
For the sauce:
• 1 tsp. honey;
• 3 tablespoons of olive oil;
• salt to taste;
• ½ lemon juice.
Cooking method
1. Wash vegetables with greens under running water, lay them on a napkin to dry.
2. Peel the onion, cut into thin, transparent half rings. Also chop the Bulgarian pepper.
3. Cut the salmon into thin strips. Salad tear into pieces.
4. For the sauce, mix lemon juice with honey, add some salt, add olive oil. We fill the prepared products and lay out on a flat dish. Slightly level with a spoon for the same layer thickness.
5. Cut the tomatoes into slices, smoked eggs and olives in half. Spread mixed vegetables with salmon. Top salad can be a little salt.
Recipe 8: Smoked eggs with red / black caviar
Smoked eggs go well with caviar, based on this, you can make a simple but very beautiful appetizer. It is desirable to use natural red or black caviar, but in the absence of, you can use artificial. It is tasty with pike caviar, but not so beautiful.
Ingredients Required
• 5 eggs;
• spoon of mayonnaise;
• fresh parsley;
• salt;
• 50-70 gr. caviar
Cooking method
1. Cut eggs in half, extract the yolk.
2. Fold the yolks in a bowl, add mayonnaise, chopped parsley and grind everything carefully.
3. We fill the halves of eggs prepared mass. In the filling we make a small notch and place half a teaspoon of caviar in a pile. Put the parsley leaf. Simple, but unusually tasty snack is ready!
Recipe 9: Vitamin salad with smoked eggs
Healthy salad with dietary dressing, which will especially appreciate slimming people. The taste of smoked eggs is well set off by soy sauce, which is used as a dressing and also replaces salt. A great option for a healthy dinner or as an addition to dinner.
Ingredients Required
• 2 eggs;
• 1 cucumber;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 6-7 radishes;
• half a lemon;
• soy sauce;
• Dill and onion greens.
Cooking method
1. Wash vegetables and herbs, chop randomly.
2. Fill with lemon juice and soy sauce, mix well.
3. Eggs cut into slices, each into 6-8 parts, lay on the salad yolk up. Can be served on the table!
Smoked Eggs - Tricks and Tips
• The fresher the egg, the worse it breaks with the shell, after cleaning the surface is damaged and not very attractive. Therefore, for smoking, it is better to use a product that has lain for several days in the refrigerator.
• Onion peel is often used to dye artificially smoked eggs. After cooking the decoction, it must be removed so that there are no stains and stains of various colors on the surface.
• Smoked eggs can leave red spots on the hands and dishes, so they need to be slightly dried before serving, laid out on a napkin.
• To make the eggs better marinated and smoked, you can poke them in several places with a toothpick. But only if the artificial version with coloring broths is not used, otherwise brown spots will be visible when cutting on the squirrel.
