Description
A traditional, mellow salty soup packed with collagen, where bone-in pork trotters and raw peanuts are simmered long until the broth turns cloudy white.
Restaurants serving Peanut and Pork Trotter Soup
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Pork trotters
- Raw peanuts
- Ginger
- Scallions
- Rice wine
- Salt
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Soak raw peanuts (skin-on) in water overnight.
- Prep pork trotters (collagen-rich part) by removing hairs, parboil, and wash clean of scum and blood.
- Put plenty of water, trotters, soaked peanuts, sliced ginger, green scallion parts, and a little rice wine in a pot.
- Bring to boil, simmer very slowly on low for 2-
- hours (pressure cooker saves time).
- When the trotter skin turns jelly-gooey and peanuts are fluffy enough to crush with fingers, season with salt only.
- Plate, optionally garnish with cilantro or white pepper.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Sweet peanut aroma and pork richness
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Pork belly block (collagen texture is inferior)
Pairing
Classic pairing is eating with Mianxian(ultra-thin noodles)
Trivia
[For Women] Historically believed in Taiwan to 'improve breast milk and hydrate skin', a must-drink medicinal soup for postpartum women (Zuo Yuezi). Loved daily too; the cloudy soup emulsified with trotter fat and peanut oil has deep richness like Tonkotsu ramen broth.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Prepare a small plate of Taiwan's unique garlic soy sauce (Suanrong Jiangyou), dip the gooey trotters and peanuts to taste like a side dish!
Allergen
Pork, Peanuts