How to make braised pork elbow

Braised pork elbow is a famous dish of Shandong cuisine. It tastes mellow and not greasy. The finished braised pork elbow is very bright red in color and has a crispy and soft texture. As a family, when making braised pork, you can keep it simple. Of course, try to prepare enough ingredients so that you can make delicious braised pork elbow. Pork elbow is rich in nutritional value and contains more protein and collagen. Eating some of it regularly is good for your body.

Ingredients preparation: 500 grams of pork elbow, 15 grams of soy sauce, 10 grams of fine salt, 1 star anise, 2 segments of scallion, 2 slices of fresh ginger, 50 grams, a little honey, fungus, magnolia slices, MSG, wet flour, an appropriate amount of second clear soup, and coriander.

Production steps

l. Boil the pork elbow until it is 80% cooked, remove it from the pot, spread a layer of honey on the skin, put it in a wide oil pan, and fry it until the skin has small bubbles and turns dark red, then remove it from the pot.

2. Cut the whole piece of pork elbow into a round shape according to the size of the steaming bowl. Use a knife to cut the lean meat of the elbow into deep, but not transparent elephant-eye pieces. Place the skin side down in a steaming bowl and add scallion segments, ginger slices, and star anise. Take a bowl of second clear soup (pork bone soup), add soy sauce, salt, cooking wine, adjust the taste, and pour it into the bowl of pork elbow. Place in a steamer and steam over high heat for 2 and a half hours. After taking it out of the steamer, pick out the scallion segments, ginger slices and star anise and put them in the soup plate.

3. Place the soup pot on high heat, scoop in two spoonfuls of clear soup, pour in the original soup from the steamed pork elbow, add magnolia slices, fungus slices, refined salt and MSG. It tastes good. Add a little starch with running water and pour it on the elbow after boiling.

Pork elbow is very nutritious and contains more protein, especially collagen protein. Like pork skin, it is an excellent food therapy for making the skin plump and moisturized, and strengthening the body and gaining weight.