These spicy Korean soy sauce eggs are marinated in soy sauce, sugar and water with scallions, garlic and chili peppers until they’re perfectly cured, pickled and absolutely addictive.
This is a great soy marinated egg recipe for adding to ramen (or instant noodles), as a side for almost any Asian dish or just to eat with your favorite short grain white rice (and they’re really easy to make!).
If you love eggs that are truly pickled with vinegar, you should try these spicy jalapeno pickled eggs, these old-fashioned pickled eggs or this beet pickled egg recipe.
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Pin ItHow to Make Soy Sauce Eggs (Mayak Gyeran)
- Cook the and Peel the Eggs. Boil the eggs for 6 1/2 to 10 minutes (depending on if you want the eggs to be medium-boiled or hard-boiled (I like them both for different dishes). Peel and set aside.
- Make the Soy Sauce Marinade. Mix the soy sauce, water and sugar in a small pot over high heat until the sugar dissolves, then set aside.
- Add Eggs and Marinade into Jars & Refrigerate. After the soy sauce egg marinade has cooled for 30 minutes (or until room temperature), pack the eggs into 32oz jars and add the garlic, scallions, chili peppers and sesame seeds, then fill the jars with the soy sauce mixture until full.
Make-Ahead and Storage Instructions for Soy Sauce Eggs
To Make-Ahead: You can make the marinade ahead of time and keep it in the fridge until you’re ready to boil your eggs.
To Store: Hard-boiled, cured soy sauce eggs can be kept in your fridge, in a sterilized, tightly sealed mason jar for up to 1 month. If medium-boiled, keep in the fridge for up to 1 week.
What to Serve with Soy Sauce Eggs
Okay, I could seriously just pop these in one after another without anything. With that being said, depending on how long they marinate for, they can be pretty salty.
Because of that, they make perfect addition to a lot of asian meals, and are best when eaten with a carb.
- Eat them with noodles! Noodles are about the most perfect food to eat with marinated soy sauce eggs. They incredible with just plain old instant noodles, but my favorite are to eat them with these asian garlic noodles, cilantro lime noodles or these spicy peanut butter noodles.
- Enjoy with plain white rice or fried rice! Okay, hot take, but probably my favorite way to eat soy sauce cured eggs is just with plain old short grain white rice. If you like your rice wok-fried to perfection though, I would highly suggest making them with Filipino garlic fried rice (Sinangag), this pineapple spam fried rice or Thai pineapple shrimp fried rice.
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Equipment
- 1 large 32oz mason jar
Ingredients
- 10 large eggs
- 1 cup soy sauce
- 1 cup water
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 3-4 stalks scallions, chopped
- 3-4 red or green chili peppers, sliced
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
Instructions
- Add the eggs to a saucepan of boiling water and cook for 11 minutes (for medium-boiled eggs, please see the *Notes)
- Transfer the eggs to a bowl of iced water to cool.
- Allow to sit for 5 minutes.
- Pell and set aside.
- To make the brine, add the soy sauce, water and sugar to a pot.
- Stir to combine.
- Bring to a boil over high heat.
- Reduce the heat and simmer until dissolved.
- Remove from the heat.
- Cool the brine for 30 minutes, until it reaches room temperature.
- Pack the eggs into a jar.
- Add the scallions, chili peppers, garlic and sesame seeds to the jar.
- Pour the brine over the eggs, leaving 1/2″ of headspace.
- Close the jar with a nonreactive lid
- Gently rotate to move the vegetables and sesame seeds around then refrigerate.
- Allow the eggs to marinate for at least 24 hours before eating, preferably around one week for better flavors.
- The soy sauce eggs will keep for up to 4 weeks refrigerated (but only when hard boiled). For medium-boiled eggs, keep in the refrigerator for no longer than 7 days.
Notes
- Boil water until it reaches a roiling boil
- Add the eggs and cook for exactly 6 minutes and 50 seconds, stirring the eggs constantly for the first 1 1/2 minutes.
- When they are done boiling, transfer them immediately to an ice bath.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
