Hu La Yang Ti (Spicy Braised Sheep Trotters)
Collagen that sticks to your lips! Stewed sheep's hooves
Description
A street food with an intense visual impact, piled high in Xinjiang bazaars and night markets. Sheep trotters (the sheep version of pig's trotters) are braised for hours with massive pepper, chilies, and star anise until the gelatin melts completely. Features violent heat and numbing spice.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Sheep trotters
- White pepper(massive)
- Dried red chilies
- Sichuan pepper
- Star anise
- Black cardamom
- Soy sauce
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- (Astonishing Hair Removal) Burn all hair off the sheep trotters completely using a gas torch. Wash in hot water while meticulously scraping off the char with a knife. Use pliers to rip off the hooves (this prep is life).
- (Blanch) Pre-boil with scallion, ginger, and wine to purge blood and odor.
- (Hu La Broth) In a giant pot, drop massive 'white pepper (Hu)', dried red chilies (La), Sichuan pepper, star anise, cinnamon, and black cardamom.
- Add soy, salt, and rock sugar, brewing a violently spicy, pitch-black liquid.
- Drop in the trotters. Simmer on low for 2-
- hours until the skin and tendons (gelatin) are on the verge of melting off the bone.
- Turn off the heat and let them cool in the broth, forcing the extreme spice to penetrate deep into the collagen core.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Sharp heat of massive white pepper and star anise aroma、八角の香り
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
(Substitute with pig trotters braised in the same spices)
Pairing
Cold Beer / Xinjiang Milk Tea
Trivia
[Trivia] 'Hu' means pepper, 'La' means chili. While pig trotters are eaten everywhere in China, in Muslim cities, 'Sheep Trotters' are the Halal substitute and the supreme collagen source. A demonic street food that forces infinite beer consumption.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Wear plastic gloves, hold the bone, and gnaw directly. There is almost zero lean meat; you are eating purely 'the gelatin of skin and tendons'. When finished, the collagen is so profoundly rich that 'your upper and lower lips stick together like superglue'.
Allergen
Mutton, Soybeans, Wheat (Soy sauce)