Main Ingredients:
Pork trotters: 2; Spring onion: as needed; Dried red chili: as needed; Small green chili: as needed; Ginger: as needed; Garlic: as needed.
Seasonings:
Chopped pepper: 50g; Dark soy sauce: 10g; Light soy sauce: 10g; Cooking wine: 10g; Rock sugar: 20g; Sichuan peppercorn: a little; Bay leaf: a little; Star anise: a little.
Flavor: Mildly spicy; Cooking method: Braised; Cooking time: 1 hour; Difficulty: Moderate.
Detailed Steps for Cooking Spicy Pork Trotters with Chopped Pepper
1. Ask the butcher to chop the pork trotters, then soak and wash them at home. Add cooking wine, spring onion, and ginger to blanch the trotters, removing any impurities.
2. Prepare the ingredients, including chopped pepper, small green chili, spring onion, ginger, red chili, and spices, adjusting the quantities based on the amount of main ingredients.
3. Here we have peanut sauce and homemade soybean paste, you can use other sauces as well, it’s quite flexible.
4. Wash the blanched pork trotters and place them in a pressure cooker.
5. In another pot, heat vegetable oil and chicken fat, stir-fry the chopped ingredients with chopped pepper, add a small amount of broth, light soy sauce, and dark soy sauce.
6. Pour the stir-fried ingredients into the pressure cooker, add rock sugar, and mix well.
7. The pressure cooker doesn’t need too much water, but if you prefer a soupier dish, you can add more broth.
8. Set the pressure cooker to the tendon program and start cooking.
9. The fragrant and tempting pork trotters are ready when the pressure is released.
