Claudia Alarcón covers food, drinks and travel in places near and far. Quail eggs have long been perceived as a high-end delicacy, but Spring Creek Quail Farms, a family-owned, zero-waste farm in ...

Just as quails are smaller birds than chickens, quail eggs are a fraction of the size of a typical chicken egg. But what they lack in size, they make up for in flavor. One of the first facts you ...

Quail eggs take less time to cook than chicken eggs. To soft-boil them, boiling for only 1-2 minutes suffices. To hard-boil ...

Cut six 10cm/4in circles for the lids and set them aside. For the filling, cook the quails' eggs in a pan of boiling water for two minutes then refresh in cold water, peel carefully and set aside.

Quails' eggs can be quite tricky to shell so allow extra time to complete this fiddly task.