Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, pork trotter in black vinegar and ginger. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Old ginger root and sesame oil are must-haves on the post-natal menu. Every dish our confinement lady cooked featured these two ingredients. Black Sweet Vinegar Pork Trotter Recipe 猪脚醋(姜醋猪脚)
Pork Trotter in Black Vinegar and Ginger is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Pork Trotter in Black Vinegar and Ginger is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pork trotter in black vinegar and ginger using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pork Trotter in Black Vinegar and Ginger:
- Make ready 400 g pork trotter or knuckle
- Make ready 500 ml black vinegar
- Prepare 200 g Bentong Ginger / old ginger
- Make ready 600 ml water
- Get 2 tbsp sesame oil
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Get 1 tbsp palm sugar / brown sugar
- Take Some dried chillies optional
Put ginger blocks into the Crock Pot and black beans if you choose to add it in (Preparation instructions behind). Pour boil water into Crock Pot till ¾. Slightly dried ginger is more absorbent. New moms are expected to eat the ginger along with the pork trotters, eggs, and vinegar!
Instructions to make Pork Trotter in Black Vinegar and Ginger:
- Chop pork knuckle into small pieces with bones attached. Wash clean with water and remove hair. Simmer the meat in hot water with ginger and green onions for 30 minutes. Remove and set aside.
- Heat up wok with sesame oil. Add in old ginger or Bentong Ginger and stir fry till fragrance. The ginger is best cut into thick slices or just smashed it in large chunks. Add in some salt. Pour the ginger into a clay pot or any pot for slow cook purpose.
- Add 250ml black vinegar and 300ml water into the pot with the fried ginger and simmer it for 30 minutes.
- Add in another round of 250ml black vinegar and 300ml water and simmer for another 30 minutes. You can add a few pieces dried chillies if you prefer more spiciness.
- Add in the pork and simmer in slow cook mode for 1 hour until meat is soft. Add in sugar and slow cook for another 10 minutes till sugar dissolves. Adjust sugar to taste if you want more sweetness.
- You can remove some oil on the top of the layer of the gravy. Some recipe add in black beans and hard boiled eggs and is optional. The gravy should taste sour and sweet with some spiciness of ginger.
You'll also need some regular Chinese black vinegar, which is more sour. Black vinegar pork trotters is a classic heritage dish made by Cantonese families during confinement month following the birth of a baby. Did you know that vinegar trotters are traditionally cooked in tall earthenware pot due to the acidic vinegar and cooking method leaches metals from metal pots. Pig trotter and ginger stewed in sweet black vinegar is an old traditional Cantonese recipe originally formulated for mothers after birth, to keep new mums warm I love it during winter over here when the weather is very cold out there. Eating a bowl of this vinegary pork trotter will keep me warm and cosy.
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