Secret Dongpo Elbow

Ingredients ?

One pig's trotter, about 900g

20 pieces of rock sugar

One piece of cinnamon, 10cm long

3 star anise

5 slices of allspice

5 cloves

2 strawberries

One nutmeg

Coriander seeds, half a tablespoon

1 tablespoon of peppercorns

1 tbsp orange peel

8 tbsp cooking wine

4 tbsp soy sauce

5 green onions

one large piece of ginger

Man Food Slow Food Secret Dongpo Elbow recipe ?

Slice the green onion, and slice the ginger. Clean the hooves and put them in a pot, add water that can pass through, add half of the green onion, half of the ginger and 3 tablespoons of cooking wine and boil

The star anise cloves and other small particles of spices with gauze to be used

Open the medium-low heat, put the icing sugar in the crock pot, and then add a small half a bowl of water of about 100 ml, so that the icing sugar heated to dissolve the temperature to become caramelized sugar, the whole process will take time 10-15 minutes

Man food slow language secret Dongpo elbow. 15 minutes

To sugar color into a deep amber color, immediately pour a lot of hot water, the spices are also thrown into the slightly cooked flavor

Put into the hooves, the rest of the wine, green onion and ginger, add boiling water to the broth can be basically submerged in hooves

Cooked to turn the minimum fire, cover and simmer for more than 2 hours, in the middle of the hooves will be a few times to turn over

The hooves have basically soft and rotten. have basically soft, this time fishing out the pot of spices and other debris, and transfer out half of the broth without, in the remaining broth into the soy sauce

this time open the lid, open medium-high heat to begin to collect the juice. Every few minutes will be scooped up and poured all over the surface of the hoof, and from time to time will be turned over, pay attention to observe the degree of uniformity of the color, the whole process will take about 40 minutes

when the soup began to thicken the hoof out of the plate to be used, continue to collect the soup in the pot to the color of the deep and thick and bubbling, poured into the hoof on the can

Tips

1, cook the color of the sugar to be patient! The slow cooking with medium-low heat, until the syrup viscous bubbling began to turn golden to closely observe, careful not to burn. The syrup simmering process does not ~ to ~ stir ~ mixing, but shaking the pot so that it is heated evenly?

2, if you have old marinade at home, you can add a few spoons of it to the simmering hooves?

3, before the juice transfer out of the soup do not throw away, can continue to be used to brine something else, or do braised dishes when the stock used?

4, the juice when the hooves have been skin loose meat rotten, careful to turn do not destroy the overall shape