Main Ingredient:
Pork Trotter: 1.
Ingredients for Marinating Pork Trotter:
Pepper Salt Powder: as needed; Vodka: as needed.
Ingredients for Stewing Pork Trotter:
White Radish: 1; Spring Onion: 1 stalk; Ginger Slices: as needed; Ground Pepper: as needed; Salt: as needed; Mushroom Seasoning: as needed.
Taste: Salty and Fresh; Technique: Marinating; Time: Several days; Difficulty: Easy.
Detailed Steps for Cooking Salted Pork Trotters
Take a fresh pork trotter, make some cuts without breaking it, spray some vodka on the surface, wait for the alcohol to be absorbed. Other high-proof white liquor can also be used.
Evenly coat the pork trotter with pepper salt powder. I used this kind of pepper salt powder directly, you can also fry Sichuan peppercorns and salt together, but the meat will be saltier. When cooking later, boil it first to remove some salt.
Place the pork trotter in a container, refrigerate for 10 days. Check on the third day, if there is any liquid, pour it out and sprinkle some pepper salt powder again. After 10 days, the pork trotter can be eaten directly. If you want to continue storing it, wash off the pepper salt powder, dry the surface moisture of the pork trotter, cut it into pieces, and freeze it in the refrigerator.
I prepared to eat it directly, washed off the pepper salt powder, cut it into pieces, boiled some spring onion and ginger slices to make a broth, added the pork trotter, boiled for 5 minutes to remove some salt. Set aside.
Cut 1 white radish into pieces and set aside.
Put the blanched pork trotter into a soup pot, add some spring onion and ginger slices, pour in boiling water, stew for an hour. After an hour, add the white radish, stew for another half an hour.
The stewed broth is milky white, the lean meat is very tender, and the pork trotter tendon is soft and glutinous, very flavorful. Season with some mushroom seasoning and ground pepper, then enjoy~ Taste the soup first to adjust the saltiness before deciding whether to add more salt. If you don’t have mushroom seasoning, you can use chicken bouillon as a substitute.
