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A whole pork knuckle is boned, rolled and pressure-braised with aromatics, yielding a traditional sliced cold cut with firm, savory jelly.
Instructions
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Prepare a pig's knuckle and clean it thoroughly.
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Shave out the bone in the middle.
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Score the surface with cross cuts.
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Clean thoroughly, soak for one hour, and remove the blood.
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Put cold water in a pot, add slices of ginger, green onions, and cooking wine, and blanch.
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Cook for 10 minutes, skimming off the foam.
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Remove and rinse thoroughly with warm water.
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Transfer into the electric pressure cooker, add all the ingredients from the auxiliary ingredients and seasonings, along with the original broth used to cook the pork hocks.
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Cover the pot with a lid and cook for 30 minutes.
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Take out the pork knuckle, use a clean cloth to wrap it, and tie it tightly (you can also use plastic wrap).
- 11

Roll into a cylinder and place in the refrigerator to chill overnight.
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Take out the refrigerated pork hock.
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Open it.
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Slice.
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Plate it, and it's ready to eat.
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Ingredients
Main Ingredients
- pork knuckle1 piece
- Spice bag1 piece
- Hawthornto taste
Auxiliary Ingredients
- Scallionto taste
- Gingerto taste
Seasonings
- cooking wineto taste
- rock sugarto taste
- Cinnamonto taste
- Star aniseto taste
- Bay leafto taste
- dried chilito taste
- Sweet bean sauceto taste
- Saltto taste
- dark soy sauce1/2 bowl