How to make braised pork trotter in pressure cooker

Braised pig's trotters is also a common way to cook pig's trotters. In order to save time, you can put the braised pig's trotters in a pressure cooker, which will take less time. When making braised pig's trotters, you should prepare more seasonings, such as star anise, pepper, cinnamon, etc. In order to make the pig's trotters look good and taste fresh, you should prepare an appropriate amount of rock sugar, soy sauce, etc. The braised pig's trotters should not be cooked for too long. If you cook them for too long, the meat will be too rotten and it will not be chewy.

How to make braised pork trotter in pressure cooker

Main ingredients: 4 pig's trotters, 1 pig's ear. Accessories: 5-6 scallions, 2 spoons of salt, 5-6 slices of ginger, 6-7 cloves of garlic, 1 piece of cinnamon, appropriate amount of bay leaf powder, 2 star anise, 20 crystal sugars, appropriate amount of soy sauce, appropriate amount of cooking wine.

1. In foreign countries, it is difficult to buy any part of the animal except meat. So I ordered two large boxes of pig's trotters and pig's ears online.

2. In order to keep them fresh, meat products are mailed in freezers, so they are frozen hard when you open the box.

3. Pick out four pig trotters and one pig ear and soak them in cold water for 60-90 minutes. The waiting time is long enough for you to prepare other ingredients and pots. (Because the factory here handles it very cleanly, it saves the trouble of personal handling. If the pig's feet you buy have hair, you need to burn the hair off and then soak it.)

4. Throw the soaked pig's feet into a large pot, add new cold water, bring to a boil over high heat and then cook for another 3-5 minutes. If there is foam, skim it off. (At this time, boil a pot of hot water for standby use)

5. Heat up a pan with oil. Put the rock sugar into the hot oil and stir constantly over low heat until it turns into golden syrup. Notice! If you get too angry, it will get burnt!

6. Pour the pig's feet and ears into the sugar pot and stir-fry them with sugar, then add the solid ingredients and stir-fry over medium heat. (Steps 5-6 can be omitted and you can also put the rock sugar and ingredients into the pressure cooker together.) Since bay leaves are not sold here, I used bay leaf powder instead, which is the small green bottle in the picture. PS: I’m sorry, I forgot to take a photo of the stir-fry, so please use your imagination.

7. Put the fried pig's feet and ears into the pressure cooker, add the prepared hot water until the height is the same as the pig's feet. Add two spoons of salt, soy sauce (more) and cooking wine (appropriate amount), adjust to high pressure, bring to a boil over high heat, then switch to medium heat and cook for 30-40 minutes. (If you don’t stir-fry, you can throw all the ingredients into the pressure cooker at this step.)

8. After releasing the pressure cooker, open the lid and you will see that the pig's feet are cooked, boneless and evenly colored. At this time, take out the pig's feet and ears and put them in another wok.

9. Scoop a large spoonful of the pork bone soup in the pressure cooker and put it into the wok filled with pig's trotters.

10. Turn to low heat and simmer until the sauce thickens. (The pork bone soup is added to allow the original juice to be better absorbed into the pig's feet, making the taste more fragrant)

11. Once the sauce is absorbed, you can serve! I only kept one pig's trotter, and gave the rest to my best friend to eat, so there is only a photo of this one.

Cooking tips: If you like to eat boneless and cooked pork trotters, just follow the steps above. If you like chewier pig's trotters, you can shorten the time in the pressure cooker to 20 minutes, or switch to low pressure and cook for half an hour.