Ajitsuke Tamago

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 1/4 cup mirin
  • 1/4 cup cooking sake
  • 1/4 cup light soy sauce
  • 1 tsp sugar

Procedure

Soft boil the eggs, which if you don't have an egg cooker means bringing a pot to a roiling boil, carefully dropping the eggs in and starting the timer, then after 7 minutes or less taking them out. Once boiled, put them in cold water to make peeling easier.

Add the liquid ingredients to a small pot and boil them for about a minute so as to dissolve the sugar and alcohol. Once everything is cooled, put the eggs and liquid in a ziploc bag and keep them in the fridge overnight.