Description
A stamina meal where pork trotters (Zhu Jiao) are simmered for hours with soy sauce, rock sugar, star anise, and spices until meltingly soft, served with the rich broth over rice.
Restaurants serving Braised Pork Trotter Rice
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Pork trotters
- Soy sauce
- Rock sugar
- Star anise
- Cassia
- Scallions
- Ginger
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Cut pork trotters (collagen-rich hooves or meaty hocks) into chunks, blanch in boiling water to wash off blood and scum.
- Heat oil in a wok, sauté scallions, ginger, garlic, and chilies for aroma, add trotters and sear surfaces.
- Add soy sauce, thick soy sauce (Jiangyou Gao), rock sugar, and rice wine. Drop in 'Lu Bao' (spice pouch with star anise, cassia, licorice, etc.), the keystone of Taiwanese cooking.
- Pour water to cover, cover, and simmer on low for 2-
- hours (or use a pressure cooker). Boil down until the trotter skin cuts with chopsticks and the broth is a gooey, gelatinous amber.
- Top rice with a braised egg, mustard greens, and greens, slam the giant trotter in the center, and drizzle the collagen-rich broth.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Star anise and Cassia
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Pork belly block (substitute with braised pork belly)
Pairing
Radish Soup(Luobo Tang)
Trivia
[Hardcore] One of Taiwan's three great rice bowls alongside Lu Rou Fan and Pai Gu Fan. In Taiwan, eating 'pork trotter mianxian' for birthdays or warding off evil is a custom; trotters are highly auspicious.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Suck all the jiggly gelatinous skin off the bones, and with glossy lips, shovel in the broth-soaked rice!
Allergen
Wheat, Pork, Soy