Chinese home cooking

Pork Trotters with Ginger and Sweet Vinegar

Name: Pork Trotters with Ginger and Sweet Vinegar
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 750 g pork front trotters; 250 g ginger slices; 5 eggs; sweet vinegar; 1/2 block slab sugar; scallions; cooking wine; 1 g salt

猪脚姜

Pork trotters, ginger and boiled eggs simmer in sweet vinegar and slab sugar, then soak in the cooking liquid.

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Also known as Zhu Jiao Jiang · Pig Trotters in Ginger Vinegar · Pork Knuckles with Ginger and Sweet Vinegar.

Published 2026-10-12

English adaptation and editing of authorized supplied recipes: Chinese Home Cooking.

Pork trotter pieces and whole brown eggs in dark vinegar broth in a black pot. — Pork Trotters with Ginger and Sweet Vinegar

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Ingredients

Quantities are included where specified in the original recipe.

750 gpork front trotters
250 gginger slices
5eggs
sweet vinegar
1/2 blockslab sugar
scallions
cooking wine
1 gsalt

Step-by-Step Instructions

01
Blanch the trotters in cold water with ginger, scallions and cooking wine. Rinse, then freeze for 30 minutes as directed in the source. Boil the eggs and peel them. Cook the ginger slices in a dry pan with 1 g salt until their moisture evaporates.
02
Put the ginger in a clay pot with the trotters and half a block of slab sugar; the source allows adjusting the sugar to preference.
03
Pour in enough sweet vinegar to cover the ingredients. Bring to a boil and simmer for 1 hour. Add the eggs and cook for another 10 minutes, then turn off the heat and leave to soak for 1 hour.

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Cooking Method

Red-Braising

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