Today, the weather is crisp in autumn, which is suitable for eating more meat, relieving hunger, supplementing nutrition and making up for the loss in summer. There are famous pig's feet in every place, such as Qinzhou pig's feet, Zhenxiong red bean sour soup pig's feet, Chengdu mother's pig's feet, Guangdong pig's feet, Zhenjiang crystal gourmet pig's feet, Qingdao Liuting pig's feet, Baoding pot-wrapped elbow, and Beijing sauce pig's feet.
Every once in a while, some pig's trotters will be stewed at home. Pig's trotters are nutritious and contain a lot of collagen, which can prevent dry and wrinkled skin, enhance elasticity, delay aging and promote growth and development. It is a rare beauty food. There are many ways to make trotters, including stewed trotters, roasted trotters, braised trotters and sauced trotters, all of which are delicious.
Pig's trotters are so delicious that you have to pay attention when buying them. The same pig's trotters are also divided into front hooves and back hooves. The food made by the front hoof and the back hoof is also different. Some pig's trotters are suitable for soup, while others are only suitable for braised pork. What's the difference between the front hoof and the back hoof? There are some differences between the front hoof and the back hoof, and they eat completely differently. So when buying trotters, we can buy different trotters according to the way we eat them.
The front hoof has a lot of exercise, and the lean meat is much more than the fat meat, but at the same time it is not very soft and tastes a little dry, so the front hoof is not suitable for stewing pig's trotters. The front hoof will be curved and fat, and there will be enough meat. The front hoof is more expensive. You can see obvious tendons in the front hoof, but there are no tendons in the back hoof. The easiest way to distinguish the pig's feet before and after is to see if there are any broken tendons. You can see obvious tendons in the front pig's feet, but there are no tendons in the back pig's feet. This is the most practical way to distinguish.
There is not so much exercise in the hind hoof, and there is a lot of fat. The hind hoof has some fascia with good taste, which will be more delicious. If you want to stew soup or make it into barbecue or braised pig's trotters, naturally the hind hoof with more fascia and fat is more suitable. The back hoof is straight and the price is cheaper than the front hoof. The toe size of the pig's front hoof is the same, but the toe size of the pig's back hoof is different. The front hoof is fleshy and suitable for stewing or marinating, while the back hoof of the pig is more suitable for stewing pig's trotters soup.
Buy trotters in three steps, and easily buy healthy trotters. Step 1: Look at the color. If you see that the color of pig's trotters is light yellow, although it seems that the "face value" is not so high, it is the color of pig's trotters after normal hair removal. Step 2: smell the smell. Normal pig's trotters will smell fishy and won't smell any medicine. Step 3: Touch the surface of pig's trotters. If the trotters feel slippery and the normal trotters are greasy, then gently press them with your hands, and the normal trotters are soft.
How to preserve pig's trotters? Long-term preservation If you want to preserve trotters for a long time, you can freeze them in the refrigerator. But before freezing, it is best to cut the trotters in half, coat the surface with a layer of cooking oil, wrap them with plastic wrap, and then put them in the refrigerator for freezing.