Cooking hard-boiled quail eggs in rarely mixed water, soy sauce and sugar produces lovely little tea-colored crumbs that contrast firm whites with buttery yolks.
Ingredients
16 fresh quail eggs
1/2 cup of water
2 tsp of soy sauce
1 tsp of sugar
1/4 tsp of asian sesame oil
Steps
Boil the quail eggs and peel them.
Add water (1/2 cup), soy sauce and sugar and cook for about 20 minutes with shaking.
Remove from stove and stir in sesame oil. Ready to serve at room temperature.