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Spicy Pork Trotter Hotpot

Spicy Pork Trotter Hotpot

Pig trotters are pressure-cooked with a fragrant spice bundle and a punchy sauce of soy, oyster sauce, and fermented bean curd until meltingly tender, then served as a spicy, numbing hot pot base for dipping vegetables and soybeans.

Instructions

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    Half a kilogram of pig's trotters, cut into four pieces, soaked in water for two hours, you can add some white vinegar.

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    After stewing the pig's trotters, cook some soybeans. Soak them in advance; after about three to five hours, they will be well soaked. In hot weather, soak them in the refrigerator.

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    Prepare some spices, this is casual, having fewer varieties doesn't make much difference: Sichuan pepper, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, and chili are enough. Also, prepare some green onions and ginger.

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    Stir-fry the dry ingredients over low heat, then put them in a cheesecloth to make a spice bag.

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    Blanch the pig trotters, drain them after blanching, and place them in a pressure cooker.

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    Sauce: soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, Chu Hou sauce, fermented bean curd, salt, mixed evenly.

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    Reheat the oil left from frying the dry ingredients, and fry the prepared sauce briefly to make it more fragrant.

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    Pour the fried sauce into the pork trotters in the pressure cooker, add the seasoning packet and rock sugar.

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    Add boiling water until it covers the pig's trotters, add a bit more soup, which can be used for blanching vegetables and cooking some soybeans as a cold dish.

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    Press at 90 Pa for 20 minutes, take out the material pack, and soaking it for two to three hours will make it very flavorful.

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    It's hot, and the soybeans soaked in the fridge overnight have completely expanded.

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    After making the soup with pig trotters, you can make some braised soybeans. They are great as a cold dish or mixed with rice. Drain the soybeans and cook them in the soup for 15 minutes, and they will be done.

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    Cooked soybeans.

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    Reduce the soup over high heat.

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    Pressed pig trotters.

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    The remaining soup and pig trotters can be made into hotpot. After eating the pig trotters, cooking some vegetables and noodles is also quite good.

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • Pig's trotters
    1000g
  • Ingredients for hot pot
    to taste