Easy Soy Cured Egg Yolks Recipe

Jump to Recipe Jump to Video Print RecipeEggs are a staple ingredient in every culture and are prepared in hundreds of different ways. Korean and Japanese cultures share a similar decadent egg recipe ~ soy cured egg yolks! Not surprisingly, they just happen to be one of my favorite ways to enjoy eggs!What are Soy Cured Egg Yolks?Soy cured egg yolks are a very popular food in Korea and Japan and it is essentially raw egg yolks that are cured or pickled in soy sauce, sugar, and mirin or cooking wine.Instead of using the whole egg, the egg white and egg yolk are first separated. The raw egg yolks are then cured in a sweet and savory soy sauce mixture until they are slightly firm on the exterior. The high salt concentration in the curing solution draws water from the exterior of the egg yolk and forms a thin, intensely flavored “shell” around an ooey-gooey interior.As the egg yolks sit in the soy sauce marinade, they absorb the flavors of the mixture and develop a deep yellow or orange hue...