Homemade braised pig trotters 家常紅燒豬腳

Ingredients:

700 g pig trotter

2 flowers of star anise

10 g ginger slices

25 g scallion 

25 g garlic cloves

120 ml water

100 ml thick soya sauce

30 ml chinese cooking wine

1 tbs rock sugar

5 spices powder to taste

Method:

1. Wash clean a pig trotter, boil for 3 minutes.  clean away remaining hair.

2. In a wok, heat up 3 tbs of cooking oil, fried garlic, ginger slices star anise and scallion until fragrance.

3.  Put in the trotter, fry for another 5 minutes.

4. Add soya sauce, cooking wind, rock sugar and 5 spices powder and water.

5.  Cook on medium fire with lid closed until boil.

6.  Cook on big fire with lid open for another 30 minutes

7. Close the lid, and cook on small fire for to minutes.

8.  Serve.

Note:

1.  I use sio tu chiu.

2.  I use gula melaka

3.  I do add white pepper to taste.