One, the method of cooking is: brine. Second, the ingredients: pig's feet. Three used to the spices, involving the concept of the spices in the spice compound Jun material. Why is the ground dismantled so fine? Just need to answer is which flavor spices enough. But this is not the case, this question is a systematic problem. To understand something you need to know not only why, but also why.

halogen: cooking cooking a kind. It is said that the Chinese chef cooking skills have seventy-two techniques, fried, choking, cooking, cooking, frying, stewing, braising, steaming, braising, stewing, burning, roasting, brining, saucing, smoking, dipping and so on. Usually the marinade chef will sauce, stew, simmer, dip, smoke, wind, wax and other operations into the whole marinade process system. Different brining processes require different recipes, such as Baiyun pig's feet (hooves) bleaching dip vinegar brine process, Beijing old man pig's feet sauce process. Different processes, presenting different products, different products, using different spices, different spices, different spices, Jun material must also be replaced. Different ingredients are best to use different spices with, for example, brined pork, plum blossom meat, ingredients are characterized by, greasy light dry fishy light, in the use of spices, focus on greasy fragrance. Pig's feet fishy, in the use of spice recipes, generally choose heavy flavors with the fishy odor to increase the aroma.

Instruments, pig's trotters commonly known as pig's feet, ingredients characteristics: long time in captivity place what are stepped on, you know, can be said to be the most fishy parts of the pig. At the same time pig's feet and rich in collagen, low fat content. In layman's terms, the meat and bones are divided in half, hooves and collagen more, less meat.

The spice mix - since ancient times, medicine and food have the same origin, pay attention to the king and minister and make. From the Shennong Ben Cao Jing, the above record, one hundred and twenty kinds of medicine for the king, the main life support. One hundred and twenty Chinese medicines are ministers, mainly for nourishing the sex. One hundred and twenty of the lower medicines are the adjuvants, mainly for treating diseases. The so-called "ruler" is the herb that plays the main role, the so-called "minister" is the herb that plays the auxiliary role, and the so-called "zuo" is the herb that assists the ruler and minister to make up for their deficiencies, or even to enhance their abilities. The so-called make is mainly play a role in harmonization, Chinese medicine is often called "medicine guide"

In the brine industry using spices in the king, may be a flavor may also be a combination of several flavors. But I put forward to their own point of view, that is not according to the amount of how much to distinguish which is the king, that is the subject. It's like an army, the soldiers are the most numerous, the general is the only one, but the majority of the battlefield is decided by the general or the general plus the think tank. However, the ratio of cavalry to infantry corresponds to the ratio of aromatic spices to bitter spices in a spice recipe. The general minimum ratio is three to two.

Now to Beijing old man pig's feet and Guangdong Baiyun pig's hands as a case study

Beijing old man pig's feet, net red brand, claiming to be from Beijing Tianfu building teacher. In Cuiyun Road that family home, every day two big pots estimated to have more than 200 pounds of pig's feet and elbow flowers, sold out in 20 minutes, customers even three or four hours in advance to line up, I went to taste for the first time, did not buy on, buy a little bit of soup, and buy the soup alone is also money.

Review, sauce flavor is strong, no material flavor, highlighting the meat flavor. Soft and rotten off the bone. Suitable for Beijing people's tastes. The bad point is that the time is a little long, the color is black.

Pig's feet production (reprint)

Preparation of ingredients a pig's hoof (imported domestic can be, the old man pig's feet with imported pig's hooves)

Spices - star anise, fennel, dahuric dahurica, cao gui, cinnamon, nutmeg Glycyrrhiza glabra, fragrant sand, peppercorns, ginger, cloves, sand nut, grass kou, ginger

Seasoning, sugar, Haitian straw mushroom soy sauce, salt, Lao Cai Chen cooking wine

Processing, defrosting - soaking in bleeding water - blanching in cold water in the pot - out of the pot Electric fan blowing cool blow dry burn skin to remove stubble - again clean - into the pot brine.

Watch: brine with a lot of grass mushrooms old soy sauce, leaving a small amount of old soup every day, because more old soup, brine out of the black. A veritable sauce!

Highlights: the above spices, to fishy odor mainly, Angelica dahurica, strawberry, good ginger, aroma-enhancing mainly anise cumin cinnamon incense sand. The use of incense sand + dahurica + cumin combination to odor. This inside the Jun material for dahurica + fragrant sand + cumin

Baiyun pork knuckle is one of the old Canton on the pig's trotters, characterized not only has a crisp and crunchy texture, taste is also sweet and sour

Baiyun pork knuckle production

Instrument: pig's trotters

Spices and seasoning, white vinegar, sugar, ginger, lemon, chili peppers, sesame leaves.

Processing technology pig's feet pre-treatment - chopping blocks - into the boiling water to continue to heat the water to boil, keep about 95 degrees 70 minutes - fishing into the flowing water

Vinegar brine processing -- sugar and white vinegar ginger lemon slices chili pepper with water and slow heating, sixty minutes after filtering out the ginger lemon slices, add sesame leaves while hot, let cool.

Highlights: this inside ginger chili to fishy, lemon scented leaves to increase the aroma, which is almost no spices, if you really want to say that there is, juniper ginger