Spicy Hawthorn Pork Trotters

Overview

It’s been a long time since I’ve had hometown-style dishes on the dining table at home. I really wanted to eat something spicy and spicy. I made up my mind to make spicy pig’s trotters today. I remembered seeing the bright red hawthorns on the shelves in the supermarket yesterday, and suddenly I had an idea. This sweet and sour elf is just right for my spicy pig’s trotters. Well, thinking about it, I took action immediately. While I was thinking about how to make this dish, I was also worried, what would it taste like if hawthorn was added to this dish? After finally making it, it was even more delicious than I imagined. It was spicy, sweet and sour, fragrant and appetizing, and the hawthorn just melted the greasiness of the pig's trotters. Now I will quickly upload the results of my first attempt to share with you.

Tags

• private kitchen
• cooking wine
• dried chili pepper
• garlic
• hawthorn
• light soy sauce
• old soy sauce
• onions
• pig's trotters
• rock sugar
• spicy sauce
• star anise
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• ginger
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare the ingredients;

   

2. 2 Wash the hawthorn and cut it in half and remove the core;

   

3. 3 Pour cold water into the pot and add an appropriate amount of Sichuan peppercorns (Sichuan peppercorns can remove fishy smell);

   

4. 4 When the water boils, blanch the pig's trotters for 1 minute;

   

5. 5 After the pig's trotters are splashed in the water, rinse them with cold water and wipe them dry;

   

6. 6 Heat oil in a pan;

   

7. 7 Add rock sugar;

   

8. 8 Cook over low heat until the rock sugar melts and turns yellow;

   

9. 9 After the sugar liquid starts to bubble, immediately pour in the pig's trotters and stir-fry until they are all evenly colored;

   

10. 10 Add hawthorn and stir-fry evenly;

    

11. 11 Add chopped green onion, shredded ginger, garlic, Sichuan peppercorns, star anise and dried chili and stir-fry;

    

12. 12 Add spicy sauce;

    

13. 13 Pour in dark soy sauce;

    

14. 14 Add cooking wine;

    

15. 15 Add light soy sauce;

    

16. 16 Add salt;

    

17. 17 Stir-fry the pig's trotters and the above seasonings evenly;

    

18. 18 Pour in warm water that covers the ingredients, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over medium to low heat for 1 hour, until the pig's trotters are soft and waxy;

    

19. 19 Before serving, add a few chopped hawthorns and cook for three minutes.

    

20. 20 The addition of hawthorn gives this spicy pig's trotters an unexpectedly rich and delicious taste. Hawthorn also plays a role in resolving greasiness and stagnation. Do you like it?