Braised Pork Knuckles with Soy Beans

Name: Braised Pork Knuckles with Soy Beans
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 pcs Trotters; 50g soy; 5g salt; 2 tablespoons Soy sauce; 1 small handful crystal sugar; 5 slices ginger; 1 piece star anise; 15 capsules pepper; 5 Dried chili; 2 tablespoons Cooking Wine; 1 Shallots; 3 tablespoons Vegetable oil; 2 tablespoons Yellow sauce; Some water

by Nicole

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

1h

Serving

3

Today’s stewed pork knuckle with soy beans is a new year dish specially made for making a fortune in the New Year. Soy beans symbolize a wealth of money. Together with the pig knuckles who get rich, we hope that each of us will have a lot of money in the new year. There are front and back of the pig's trotter. I generally like to choose the front, which is the so-called trotter, because the trotter has less fat compared to the two pig's feet at the back, and it will not be very greasy to eat. It is relatively less burdensome.

Braised Pork Knuckles with Soy Beans

1. Soak the soybeans in water for half an hour in advance

Braised Pork Knuckles with Soy Beans recipe

2. Boil water in a pot. After the water is boiled, add pork knuckles and blanch until the color changes, then remove and drain.

3. Add slightly more oil than usual for cooking to 30% hotter in the pot, keep the heat at medium and low, add dried chilies and peppers to fry for a fragrant flavor, and then add rock sugar

4. Stir-fry the rock sugar until it melts, pour into the cleaned pork knuckles and stir-fry evenly

5. After the pig’s hands are colored, add green onions, ginger and star anise

6. Add cooking wine and soy sauce, continue to stir fry on medium and low heat

7. Stir-fry until the pork knuckle turns brownish-red, add soy beans

8. Add boiling water to 2/3 of the pork knuckles, bring the soup to a boil over high heat

9. Skim the surface layer of foam, put in soybean paste, cover and simmer for half an hour on medium heat, until you can easily pierce the pig's knuckles with chopsticks, adjust the appropriate amount of salt according to personal taste, and sprinkle with chopped green onion after serving.