Black Vinegar Pork Trotter (猪脚醋)

Black vinegar pork trotter is a dish that either you love it or you hate it!!  I love it so decided to share the recipe with those that love it and wanted to try cooking it yoursef :)

Very simple steps and just few ingredients, you'll be able to tase a nice bowl of sourish fragrant black vinegar trotter! 



 

Serve 4

Ingredients:

1 bottle of Black Rice Vinegar (Chan Kong Thye Brand 双料 if you are Singaporean)

1 Pig Front Trotter (less fat)

300g Old Ginger

200g Young Ginger

2 slices of Sugar Cane Sugar (冰片糖) - can get from any medical hall)

10 Garlic Cloves

10 Stalks of Dried Red Chilli (Soak in water)

2 bottle of water (using the vinegar bottle to measure)

* Optional to add few hard boil eggs if you like.

• Boil trotters in water for 10 minutes.   Remove, drain and rinse clean
• Pour 1 bottle of black vinegar, add 2 bottles of water (using the vinegar bottle to measure) in a big pot.  Add in ginger, garlics, dried red chilli, sugar cane sugar into pot and bring to boil for 30 minutes.
• Add in trotters and continue to cool for another 1 hour.
• Taste and add salt based on your own preferrence
• Add in hard boiled eggs and continue to cool for an other hour will do.