Pickled Quail Eggs

[big brown horse]

Recipe from "Local Harvest"

Pickled quail egg recipe
I made a batch of pickled quail eggs last week and my husband decided to share them with some friends at work. Our friend requested this recipe, so here it is. This will work with hard-boiled chicken eggs as well. These are a dilled pickled egg. Quail eggs have soft outer shells with tough inner membranes. They can be peeled like a chicken egg, but it is easier to soak them in vinegar overnight rendering the shells rubbery. They are super easy to peel this way.

Pickling Ingredients:

36 boiled quail eggs, 1 1/2 cup vinegar, 2 cups vinegar for soaking. 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon dried dill, 1/4 teaspoon white pepper, 3 teaspoons salt, 1/4 teaspoon mustard seed, 2Tbl. minced onion, 1 clove minced garlic. For spicy pickled quail eggs add 1/2 teaspoon of dried red pepper or any liquid Hot Sauce. For extra spicy flavor add more red pepper, a chopped habanero pepper, or hot sauce.

Check for cracked eggs. Use only uncracked eggs.

Wash eggs in warm water and drain.

Put eggs in a pot and cover with cold water.

Bring water to a rolling boil.

Allow eggs to stand in hot water for 3 minutes.

Drain water and cover eggs with white vinegar (at least 1" above the eggs). .

After 12 hours the shells should be partly dissolved in the vinegar leaving them rubbery.

Rinse the eggs thoroughly and peel them. Make sure you get all of the inner membranes off of the peeled eggs.

Rinse again after peeling. Put peeled eggs in a 1 quart canning jar.

Place pickling ingredients in a pan and simmer for 5 minutes.

Pour the pickling liquid into the quart jar, completely covering the eggs.

When the eggs and mixture have cooled, cover and refrigerate for at least 24 hours before eating. The longer they marinate the better. Serve cold with sea salt.

Quick question, can I use ACV instead of white vinegar?

 

[Occamstazer]

We always have a jar of these in the fridge. Josh looks like a little kid stealing cookies when he eats them

I use ACV in the pickling, never had any probs. I used balsamic once because it was all I had, and they came out all grey

 

[big brown horse]

thanks!

Do you have your own quail?

The guy I got them from told me that they begin laying at 6 weeks of age!! I'm starting to think I might need my own quail!

 

[Occamstazer]

I want quail bigtime bad!
I get cans of quail eggs for cheapo at the asian market.

 

[big brown horse]

Already pickled quail eggs? What do you mean in a can? I've seen them in tiny egg cartons before.

Anyway, I think I'm going to start a quail thread. I want them bad too! Wifezilla says you can even keep them if you live in an apartment building. Sounds like the ultimate urban SSer's dream!

Mine are bubbling away in the vinegar, and now they are completely white! Crazy!

 

[Occamstazer]

Nah, not pickled, just canned hardboiled. We add the pickle goodness :-D
http://www.efooddepot.com/products/Aroy_hypen_D/3848/Quail_Egg__hypen__15oz.html
These! Except they're cheaper than that at the Asian market.


I'm going to be watching your quail thread. I'm sort of hoping that Josh and FIL will build me quail pens for Christmas...

 

[Wifezilla]

You need quail. They are a riot

 

[Aidenbaby]

IS there any way to describe a pickled egg? I've never had one.

 

[big brown horse]

I'll tell ya in 2-3 days.

I've eaten pickled chicken eggs lots of times. Delicious! (If you like pickles that is.)