Braised Pig Trotter Taiwanese

Name: Braised Pig Trotter Taiwanese
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 2 h 10 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Taiwanese
Ingredients: 2 pig trotters, halved by butcher; 4 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp dark soy sauce; 3 tbsp rice wine; 2 tbsp rock sugar; 1 tsp five-spice; 4 cloves garlic; 2 star anise

Soy-braised pig trotters with rock sugar, rice wine and five-spice — meltingly gelatinous and deeply flavoured.

Total time

140 min

Prep

10 min

Cook

130 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Taiwanese

Ingredients

2pig trotters, halved by butcher

4 tbspsoy sauce

2 tbspdark soy sauce

3 tbsprice wine

2 tbsprock sugar

1 tspfive-spice

4 clovesgarlic

2star anise

Instructions

Blanch trotters 5 minutes. Rinse.

Combine all other ingredients with 600ml water in a pot.

Add trotters. Bring to a boil, then simmer covered 1.5–2 hours until very tender.

Uncover. Simmer 30 more minutes until sauce is thick and glossy.

Serve over rice with braising liquid spooned over.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

Protein

3.9g

Fat

1.7g

Carbs

7.2g

Fiber

1.7g

Sodium

1184mg

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