Snow Pea Hoof Soup
1.
Prepare the trotters and snow peas (the trotters have been chopped and cleaned).
2.
Wash the pig's feet, put in a boiling pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and then add ginger slices and cooking wine.
3.
After the high heat is boiled, continue to cook for five minutes to boil the bleeding foam.
4.
Take out the trotters and wash the blood foam with clean water, check it again, and remove the fine vellus hair.
5.
Wash the snow peas, add an appropriate amount of water to soak overnight, rinse and drain the water for later use.
6.
Put the blanched pig's trotters, soaked snow peas and ginger slices into the soup pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and then add a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar (it is good for the calcium in the bones to dilute into the soup).
7.
After it is boiled, keep it on high heat for 20 minutes, remove the froth on the surface until the soup is white, then turn it to a low heat for about 3 hours.
8.
When the trotters are crispy, season them with salt and sprinkle with chopped green onion for decoration. You can adjust the dipping water according to your taste (use soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, chili oil, pepper powder, and chopped green onion to make dipping water).
Tips:
[Nutrition and Efficacy of Food Ingredients]
Snow peas: Also called white kidney peas, it grows on the snow-covered plateau at an altitude of several kilometers. It has the advantages of large grains, white color, delicious taste, fresh soup, delicate taste, and rich nutrition. It is excellent for stewing meat, stewed chicken, and stewed trotters with snow white. Snow peas are large and hard to be cooked, so soak them in water in advance to soften them.
Trotter: It is rich in collagen and has a lower fat content than fat, which has the effect of beauty and breast enhancement. Trotter is rich in nutrients and tastes delicious. It is not only a common dish, but also a good tonic. When boiling the pig's trotters soup, bring it to a boil on a high fire and continue to boil it on a high fire for 20 minutes to make the soup whitish.
[How to remove fishy pig's feet]
1. Boil the pig's feet in a pot under cold water, which makes it easier to remove blood and smell.
2. Adding sliced ginger and a tablespoon of cooking wine when blanching the water can also remove the smell of pig's feet.
3. Be careful not to cover the pot when blanching the pig's feet, so that the fishy smell of the pig's feet can be dissipated.
[How to remove the vellus hair of pig's feet more easily]
After the pig's feet are blanched, the vellus hair can be plucked better than before, and it can be plucked more thoroughly. Because some vellus hairs are inside the skin before blanching, only after blanching can the vellus show out of the skin.
