Cured Egg Yolks (Homemade Salted Eggs)

It is that time of the year where we have some extra time to try out new things, and heh generally the beginning of year is a good time for new stuff. So I have decided to make some cured egg yolks after watching those YouTube video cooking recipes.

Indentations in salt for yolks

The process seems a simple one - packet of salt and some sugar (I didnt add any spices since this is my first trial), And of course EGGS! There were a number of hyper market promotions about chicken eggs, so the cost of eggs is bearable enough to waste a few eggs on a new trial.

I poured the salt and sugar mixture into a plastic container, made two indentation and keep some of the mixture to cover the yolks later. Originally I wanted to make 3 cured yolks, but I over-estimated my skill of sifting the yolks and broke 1. So I have two nice yolks to cure instead.

Broken egg yolk

Cover the yolks with salt

Put the yolks into the two indentations and gently cover them with the remaining mixture. Gentle is the word because I wouldn't want to break yolks now, or the entire container worth of salt, sugar and yolks would have to be discarded.

As per the instructions from those YouTube videos, I put the container into the fridge for 5 days (the timing varies it seems but 5 days looks like a reasonable period). The cured yolks were a bit gooey and still looked somewhat uncooked. The colour is a nice orange amber like shade. So I baked the yolks in oven for a short while under low heat.

Baking the yolks in oven

Cured Egg Yolks (pre-baked)

So are the cured egg yolks tasty? Well, they tasted like the normal salted eggs that we can buy from the hypermarkets - i.e. those cured duck eggs that we used for porridge and mooncakes. Thus for a substitute that I can get for about $0.60 per egg, I think this is too much trouble. Maybe some day I will add some other spices and perhaps the cured egg yolks could be used for say, fried rice instead. Hmm.