1. After washing the trotters, clean the hair on the surface and cut it in half. You can ask the stall owner in the vegetable market to do it for you, otherwise it will be difficult for our ordinary knife to chop pig's trotters. )

2. Soak peanuts and soybeans in cold water 15 minutes. Put the pig's trotters into the soup pot, and add cold water until the water surface is about 5 cm. Bring boiling water to a large fire and skim off the surface foam.

3. Turn to low heat, or pour pig's trotters into an electronic soup pot. Add onion, ginger, star anise, tsaoko, pepper and other seasonings, cover the pot and stew 1 hour.

4. After the soup gradually thickens and turns white, pour in peanuts, soybeans and soaked water, and continue to stew for half an hour.

5. Add red dates after the soybeans are crisp and rotten, and continue to simmer for 20-30 minutes.