Stewed Pork Knuckles with Lotus Root

Name: Stewed Pork Knuckles with Lotus Root
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 Pig hand; 180g Lotus root; 50g soy; 1 stage shallot; 5g ginger; 5g+5g Cooking Wine; 5g Soy sauce; 4 slices Hawthorn tablets; 1 piece Aniseed; 5g salt

by Snow season (from Tencent...)

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

3

The trotters are nutritious and taste delicious. It is not only a common dish, but also a tonic. According to the analysis of nutrition experts, every 100 grams of trotters contains 15.8 grams of protein, 26.3 grams of fat, and 1.7 grams of carbohydrates. The trotters also contain vitamins A, B, C, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. Especially after the protein in the trotters is hydrolyzed, the content of 11 kinds of amino acids such as cystine and arginine produced is the same as that of bears. The palms are on par. Such a good thing, even people who don't like to eat pork knuckles, are tempted by it. The lotus root has the effect of clearing heat, cooling blood, and digesting food. It is matched with the pig's knuckles, so you don't have to worry that the pig's knuckles will be difficult to digest if they eat too much.

Stewed Pork Knuckles with Lotus Root

1. Ingredients: pork knuckle, lotus root, soybean, green onion, ginger

Stewed Pork Knuckles with Lotus Root recipe

2. Put 5 grams of cooking wine into the pot with cold water for pigs’ hands, boil it for a while, force the bleeding out, remove it, and rinse with cold water

3. Cut lotus root into hob pieces, clean soybeans, slice ginger, and cut green onion into small pieces

4. Turn on the fire, add pork knuckles to the pressure cooker, add water that hasn’t passed the pork knuckles, and add soybeans

5. Add sliced hawthorn, sliced ginger, green onion, aniseed

6. Add soy sauce

7. Add 5 grams of cooking wine, cover the pot, wait for it to get steamed, and press for 15 minutes

8. After the pressure drops, open the lid

9. Re-start the heat, add the lotus root pieces, continue to simmer for 15 minutes, add salt when the lotus root pieces are mature, turn off the heat after the juice is collected on high heat

10. Finished product.

Tips:
If there is no pressure cooker, you can use an ordinary boiling pot, and the time should be extended appropriately. If you like a lot of spices, you can add peppercorns, cloves, etc. The salt should be put last, so that the pork knuckle can be tasty and reduce the amount of salt.