Many people like to eat pig's trotters, which are rich in collagen. The taste is fragrant and glutinous. The more you eat, the better. You don’t have to worry about getting fat if you eat too much. But there is too little pork trotters and the price is not cheap. A good pig's trotter costs about twenty or thirty yuan. The chef below teaches you braised pork trotters. Remember you can do it at home. It tastes delicious after being cooked.

Spice formula: 10g star anise, 8g cumin, 5g bay leaves, 5g kaempferol, 5g amomum villosum, 5g angelica, 3g grass fruit (seeds), 3g licorice, 2g nutmeg, 2g cardamom, 2g cloves .

Other ingredients: 10 kilograms of bone soup, 5 kilograms of pig trotters, 100 grams of green onions, 150 grams of ginger, 100 grams of soy sauce, 50 grams of white wine, 30 grams of rock sugar, and 100 grams of salt. If you don't have big bone soup, you can cook it with stick bones and chicken racks in advance, and cook on high heat for 2-3 hours.

First mix the spices, soak in water for 5-10 minutes, wash off the floating dust, and then put it in gauze for later use (or not use it). Cut green onions diagonally, slice ginger and set aside.

Pig’s trotters bought outside look very white, but they are generally not clean. Turn on the gas stove, burn the pig's trotters on the fire into a circle, and then scrape them off with a knife. Then prepare a pot of water, put the pig's trotters into the pot, pour in cooking wine, blanch them for 5 minutes, take them out, inspect them, use clips to remove the remaining pig hair, and clean them thoroughly.

Then stick chopsticks on the pig's trotters a few times, or cut the pig's trotters into small pieces directly. Prepare a large pot, put the pig's trotters, cooking wine, green onions, ginger and white wine. Mix well. In this step, you can directly rub it for a while and marinate it for about 2 hours.

Prepare a large pot, pour 10 kilograms of bone broth, add cleaned spice bags, and boil over high heat for 30 minutes. When the color changes and the flavor is strong, add marinated pig trotters. Take another sip, pour in oil and rock sugar, stir-fry the sugar color, pour it into the big pot, then add soy sauce, cook on high heat for half an hour, pour in salt, simmer on low heat for 1 hour, finally turn off the heat and continue to simmer for 1 hour .

The chef teaches you how to pickle pig's trotters, and you need to collect the recipe. After cooking, it will be fragrant and soft, beautiful and delicious. A pot of braised pig's trotters is ready. The color may be lighter the first time, which is normal. After a few times, add sugar and soy sauce appropriately, and the color will gradually become darker. Also, adding salt is important. For the first time, add 10 grams of salt to 500 grams of brine. This will make the pig's trotters more flavorful and the brine less likely to go bad. After each braised pork, add 500 grams of pig trotters, equivalent to 8 grams of salt.

The above is a detailed introduction. Finally, a little tip. When marinating pig trotters for the first few times, you can prepare a few pieces of pig skin and put them in the pot at the same time. Don't take out the pig skin, cook it thoroughly so that the marinated pig's trotters look shiny and moist, look good and taste fragrant.