Stewed Pork Trotters with Golden Needles

Overview

The fifth episode of A Bite of China 2, "Encounter", introduces a Taiwanese delicacy, stewed pig's trotters with daylilies. The daylilies in it are fresh, but in this season, the fresh daylilies have not yet come out, so they can only be replaced by dried ones. The finished product tastes equally delicious, daylily. The vegetable also has another name, forgetwort, which is also a commonly eaten day lily. If you want to make such a delicious soup, it is best to use a deep soup pot. The natural material of the pot itself can effectively release minerals during the stewing process, which can maintain the original flavor of the food and make the soup more delicious. Nutritious and delicious, you can cook it easily. Mothers who like to make soup must have a ceramic pot like this! Pig's trotters and day lily meet together, one is fragrant and the other relieves greasiness. The soup is soaked with thick collagen. It is a delicious delicacy that nourishes beauty and strengthens the body, and is an indispensable food for breast-feeding moms.

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• common dishes
• meat dishes
• cooking wine
• daylily
• dried peppercorns
• green onions
• pig's trotters
• ginger
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Dried daylilies should be soaked in warm water for 2-3 hours, and then rinsed with clean water 4-5 times. Mainly to wash away the remaining pesticides or sulfur fumigated by unscrupulous merchants

   

2. 2 After washing the pig's trotters, put them into a pot of cold water. Bring the water to a boil over high heat. After boiling for one minute, take out the pig's trotters. Be careful not to stick to the blanched foam. The pig's trotters will shrink after being blanched, so if there are untreated pig hairs that will protrude, try to pull them out

   

3. 3 Put the processed pig trotters, green onions and ginger slices into a deep soup pot, add 20ML of cooking wine, then add boiling water, and add until it is 80% full

   

4. 4 Turn up the heat, bring the soup to a boil, remove the scum, add 10 dried Sichuan peppercorns, then turn to the lowest heat, and simmer for 1 hour after the water boils

   

5. 5 Turn up the heat, bring the soup to a boil, remove the scum, add 10 dried Sichuan peppercorns, then turn to the highest heat, bring the water to a boil and simmer for 1 hour

   

6. 6 Open the lid, add daylilies and continue to simmer for 1 hour

   

7. 7 Add salt and cook over high heat for 2 minutes

   

8. 8 .In addition, because there is no salt added when stewing, if you want to eat pig's trotters, you need to prepare dipping sauce. You can use light soy sauce, sesame paste, sugar, vinegar, salt, chili oil, etc. to make a mixed sauce