How to make delicious braised pork
Jellied meat is a traditional dish of the Northern people every Tet holiday. It is delicious and not boring when eaten with pickled cabbage and pickled onions.
Ingredient:
- Whole pig's trotter: about 1 kg
- Wood ear: 5-6 ears
- Shiitake mushrooms: 5 pieces
- Dried onions: 4 bulbs
- Spices: pepper, seasoning powder, fish sauce, cooking oil
- Carrot: 1/2 (to carve flowers for decoration)
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Finished jellied meat dish. |
Making:
- Scrape off the hair from the ham hock, wash it, and filter the meat. Chop the nails into small pieces.
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- Put all the filtered meat and bones into a large pot, add some boiling water and then pour this water away to reduce the smell of the pig's feet and clean the dirt. Rinse the meat and bones with water again.
- Put the bones in the pot, add water and simmer to get the sweet bone broth. Marinate the filtered meat with a little pepper, seasoning powder, fish sauce, and half of the chopped shallots.
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- Soak wood ear mushrooms, wash, cut off stems and chop finely. Crush and chop shallots.
- After 20 minutes of simmering the bones (simmer in a bone broth pot or pressure cooker), drain the water and discard the bones.
- Put chopped onions in a pot and saute with a little cooking oil. Pour all the previously filtered and marinated meat into the pot and stir-fry until firm. Pour all the bone broth into the pot. If there is not enough water, add more water until the meat is covered. You should stew the meat in a pressure cooker or slow cooker to save time. When you first put it in the pot, do not close the lid immediately, but let the meat boil, skim off the foam and close the lid tightly to keep the water clear.
- When the meat is tender, season to taste. Next, add wood ear and shiitake mushrooms, cook for a while longer.The water in the pot should be up to the meat level, at this point the meat is soft and fragrant. The time to stew the meat is about 30 minutes in a stew pot. If stewing in a regular pot, it will take about 40-50 minutes or longer, when testing the meat is soft it is done.To keep the broth clear, occasionally open the lid to skim off the foam (if using a regular pot).
- Carve carrot flowers, put in pot of water and blanch.
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- Prepare a large bowl (or jelly mold), arrange carrot flowers at the bottom, sprinkle some pepper and then scoop the meat into the bowl, one by one until all the meat is in the bowl. Then use a sieve, place it on the bowl of meat, pour the water through the sieve to remove the residue to make the meat juice clearer.
- Leave the meat outside to cool and solidify, then wrap it tightly and put it in the refrigerator to eat gradually.
- When eating, use a small knife to run around the edge of the bowl (or meat jelly mold), shake gently to loosen the bottom, then turn upside down on a large plate, it will be very beautiful.
