Braised pork trotters

Overview

Pig's trotters are the upper part of pig's legs, and some people also call them pig's trotters. The preparation of trotters is usually sauce-based or marinated. Red Braised Hoof Pork is cooked using a braised method. The color of the finished dish is maroon, so it is called red braised trotters. The taste of the dish is soft and glutinous, and the aroma is rich.

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• cinnamon
• cooking wine
• five spice powder
• mushrooms
• old soy sauce
• pork trotters
• rock sugar
• star anise
• ginger

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Remove the hair from the hooves, shave and wash them, remove the stems from the mushrooms and wash them for later use

   

2. 2 Put oil in the pot, add a large piece of rock sugar and stir-fry the sugar color. Wait until the rock sugar melts and forms big bubbles. When the bubbles disappear, turn off the heat. Do not over-fry to avoid the sugar color becoming mushy

   

3. 3 Prepare an appropriate amount of dark soy sauce

   

4. 4 Add the dark soy sauce and cooking wine to the sugar, add the washed trotters, stir-fry repeatedly,

   

5. 5 Make the sauce evenly coated on the hoof

   

6. 6 Chop appropriate amount of ginger into fine pieces

   

7. 7 When the skin of the hoof is colored, transfer it to the pressure cooker and add aniseed, cinnamon, onion, ginger, shiitake mushrooms, and five-spice powder. Add water or stock and season with salt

   

8. 8 Prepare the trotters for 30 minutes, simmer until the hooves are soft and tender, and then take them out of the pot