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Hair Vegetable and Dried Oyster Braised Pig Trotter

Braised with fat choy, dried oysters, and pork front trotters, the dish yields a tender, melt-in-the-mouth texture that is silky, soft, and richly savory.

2 hours
Easy
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Hair Vegetable and Dried Oyster Braised Pig Trotter

Ingredients

Pork front trotter (singed and scraped clean, split and chopped into pieces, blanched) 750 g
Hair vegetable (wet, soaked and washed clean, blanched, simmered) 200 g
Cleaned dried oysters (soaked and washed clean, blanched) 225 g
Ginger (sliced) 1
Scallion 3
Fine salt 3 tsp
MSG 1.5 tsp
Light soy sauce 8 cup
Dark soy sauce 0.5 tbsp
Shaoxing wine 0.5 tbsp
White pepper powder 1 tsp
Clear water 8 cup
Peanut oil 100 g

Instructions

1

Step 1

Soak and wash the hair vegetable and dried oysters clean, then blanch each separately in a pot of boiling water.

2

Step 2

Singe and scrape the pork front trotters clean, split them open, chop into pieces, and blanch.

3

Step 3

Heat 0.5 tbsp of peanut oil in a wok, sauté the ginger slices and scallion segments until fragrant, splash in the Shaoxing wine, add stock and fine salt, place in the hair vegetable to simmer, then drain off the liquid.

4

Step 4

Reheat the wok with another 0.5 tbsp of peanut oil, sauté the ginger slices, scallion segments, dried oysters, and pork trotter pieces until fragrant, splash in the Shaoxing wine, then pour in the clear water.