Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, pig trotter vinegar. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pig's trotter vinegar is a heritage Cantonese dish is especially good for postnatal recovery during the 'confinement period'. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), ginger is believed to warm the. Pig's trotter in black vinegar and ginger stew is a standard Chinese confinement dish after a woman gives birth.
Pig Trotter Vinegar is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pig Trotter Vinegar is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pig trotter vinegar using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pig Trotter Vinegar:
- Get 10 pieces spare ribs or
- Prepare 1 pig trotter (chopped into pieces by supermarket assistant)
- Take 2 big pieces of old ginger (remove skin and cut into slices)
- Prepare 1 big bottle of black sweet rice vinegar (chan Kong thye)
- Get 8 eggs
- Prepare 1 packet gula malacca (sing long)
- Get 4 tablespoons sesame oil
Making this pig trotter stew with black vinegar and ginger is actually very simple. Usually I will allow myself two days to prepare this. The pig's trotters (aka pork knuckles) are so moist, tender and succulent after the slow cooking in the tasty sweetened black vinegar. The natural collagen of pig's trotters is very good for our health too.
Steps to make Pig Trotter Vinegar:
- Put the room temperature eggs into a pot and fill with water. Amount of water should enough where it is one inch above the eggs. Boil for 6 to 7 minutes and switch off the fire. Let them cool down before peeling the shells.
- Blanch the spare ribs with boiling water for about 5 minutes. Drain the water and set the pork aside. If using the pig trotter, cut away the fats and use twister to remove the hair on the skin after blanching.
- Pour 4 tablespoons of sesame oil and ginger slices into a pot to fry a while.
- Add in half a bottle of vinegar and same amount of water into the pot with the vinegar. The ratio of vinegar to water is 1:1. Cover the pot and let it boil.
- When the vinegar in the pot boils, put in the blanched pork. Turn the fire to medium small and let it boil for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, put one gula malacca sugar in. Continue to cover and boil until sugar melts (about 5 to 10 minutes).
- After the sugar melts, taste to see if OK. If the stock is OK, put the hard boil eggs in. Add a bit of cornflour with water mixture to thicken the stock slightly.
Vinegar Pig's Trotter is believed by the Chinese to heal mother's who gave birth recently. The meat and fat melt down like jelly after boiling for an hour, a perfect comfort food. This can be cooked on a regular day for anybody. The version for confinement is heavier on. Black Vinegar Pork Trotter is a traditional confinement food for the Cantonese.
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