When I was doing my shopping at the Chinese supermarket, the butchery section had a huge stack of piggy trotters and I was tempted. Luckily I stopped myself from buying more than 1 packet. It has 3 trotters inside. We Chinese do not like the number 4 you know.
I was thinking hard of what to cook with them because I don’t fancy cooking Sweet Sour Vinegar. However I wanted to cook something hubby will eat, if not the trotters then at least the sauce. I decided to cook the trotters braised with fermented red beancurd instead. Hubby loves fermented red beancurd sauce. So he will be happy with an omelette dosed with sauce.
But……….. but I would be in heaven ‘cleaning’ all the collagen off the sexy bones. Also because I wanted to blog this recipe because I get older and more forgetful. I have to admit I was a bit tired after being on my feet for a good 3 hours cleaning and cooking this dish but I ate it for 2 days in total enjoyment and with every mouthful I felt my wrinkles disappearing. – kekekekekeke
However I do wonder if I dare to order or eat trotters not clean by myself after this!
Note – No soy sauce, oyster sauce etc were used. I wanted the ‘clean’ taste of fermented red beancurd. Please season to your own taste.
Pig Trotters with fermented red bean (腐乳)
Ingredients
First Clean
- Pig Trotters
- Flour
- Salt
- Water
Second Clean
- First cleaned pig trotters
- Water
- Ginger
- Spring onions
- Rice Wine
- Peppercorn
Third Clean
- Second cleaned pig trotters DRAINED
- Washed under running cold water
- Fry in clean wok and torched the skin (pics)
Braising ingredients
- Cleaned and Prepared pig trotters
- Nam Yue (Fermented red bean curd)
- Star Anise
- Cinnamon Stick
- Salt & Pepper
- Ginger
- Garlic
- Shallots