How to make five-spice pork trotter

Cooking is a very happy thing. You can enjoy the delicious food you make yourself. Five-spice pork pig's trotter is a simple home-cooked delicacy that does not require high cooking skills. When making this dish, you only need to prepare simple seasonings. When it comes out of the pot, you will smell a strong aroma of the vegetable, which will make you salivate.

1. Prepare the ingredients

2. Soak the dried shrimps for 4 hours in advance and set aside.

3. Choose the pork hind leg meat, cut off the trotter part in front of the joint, and wash the part with more meat. Remove the middle leg bone, leaving the skin intact.

4. Pour clean water into the pot, add pork leg, shallot, ginger slices, peppercorns, star anise and bay leaves and cook together. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook for 10-15 minutes.

5. Take out the cooked pork leg and let it cool, wipe off the moisture with kitchen paper, and use a toothpick to poke many small holes on the surface of the skin.

6. Keep the meat sauce in the pot for later use.

7. Apply a layer of aged vinegar evenly on the surface of the skin.

8. Pour peanut oil into the pan and heat it, then fry the pork belly with the skin facing down. Because of the frying process with water, the oil will splash everywhere and you need to cover the pot.

9. When the pork leg skin is fried until browned, take it out and soak it in the soup used to cook the meat. If the soup has cooled down, heat it up until warm.

10. Stir-fried dried shrimps: Heat oil in a pan, pour in dried shrimps and stir-fry until fragrant, add white wine to remove the fishy smell of dried shrimps. Add light soy sauce and oyster sauce in turn and stir-fry until tasty. Add appropriate amount of water and cook for a while. When the soup is thick, pour it into a bowl and set aside.

11. Prepare the sauce: chop the lemon and yellow tangerine peel, crush the fermented bean curd; crush the shallots and keep only the shallot juice.

12. Take a clean bowl, add light soy sauce, oyster sauce, onion juice, lemon shreds, yellow peony peel shreds and rock sugar to make a sauce.

13. Cut the soaked pork leg into small square pieces with the skin facing down. Make sure the skin remains connected and cannot be cut off.

14. Place the pork legs with skin side down in a bowl and pour in the prepared sauce.

15. Run your fingers around the perimeter of the bowl, pressing the pork in a circular motion. Repeat several times to fully blend the pork and sauce. Drain off excess sauce and marinate for half an hour.

16. Place the fried dried shrimps on the pork leg and drizzle some dried shrimp soup on it.

17. Pour water into the steamer, place the bowl into the pot, and steam over high heat for two hours.

18. Take out the steamed pork trotter meat, drain off the excess soup, cover the bowl with a round plate, and turn the bowl and the round plate over.

19. Pour clean water into the pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Remove the Shanghai Qingfei and serve as a decoration on a plate.

Looking at the delicious food on the table, do you feel interested in cooking? The method of making five-spice pork trotter is simple. With the help of cooking tools, you can quickly prepare the delicious food. You don’t need to wait and you can enjoy it immediately.