Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans
If you like to eat pork trotters, then you must not miss today's pork trotter soup with rich soup and soft, tender and delicious taste. Come and make it with me!
What is Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans?
Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans is a traditional nourishing dish. It is made by stewing soybeans and pork trotters together. Soybeans contain rich protein, vitamins and minerals, etc., and have relatively high nutritional value. pork trotters contain rich collagen and are particularly good for the skin.
Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans has always been a popular soup, especially suitable for women to eat after childbirth for recovery. It can not only supplement the nutrients lost by the body but also promote milk secretion.
At the same time, Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans is also suitable for eating in cold winter. It can bring warmth and nourishment to the body. Both the elderly and children can obtain nutrition from this soup.
Ingredients Needed and Substitutions
Main ingredients
Fresh pork trotters: They are the main ingredient for making Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans, providing meat and rich protein.
Yellow soybeans: One of the main ingredients, providing rich protein and fiber and helping to increase satiety.
Additional ingredients
Red dates: Rich in nutrition and sweet in taste, it can help increase the sweetness of Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans.
Dried plums: Dried plums refer to prunes. They provide a unique sour taste for the soup and neutralize the greasiness of the soup.
Seasonings
Oil: For stir-frying ingredients and increasing the taste of the dish.
Salt: Used for seasoning and increasing the saltiness of the soup.
Substitutions:
Soybeans: Can be replaced by mung beans or red beans.
Red dates: Can be replaced by Chinese wolfberry, astragalus and other traditional Chinese medicines.
Dried plums: Can be replaced by aged vinegar or lemon juice.
How to choose pork trotters?
Look at the color
When making Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans, choose pork trotters with ruddy or slightly yellowish color. pork trotters with a white color may have been chemically treated.
Look at the size
Choose pork trotters of appropriate size. Too large pork trotters may be from old sows, and the meat is relatively hard. Too small pork trotters have too little meat.
Also pay attention to observing the skin of pork trotters. Choose pork trotters with intact skin, no damage or bruises. Such pork trotters are relatively fresh.
Look at the texture
When choosing, you can touch the texture of pork trotters. Generally, fresh pork trotters are elastic when pressed by hand and will not be soft. If you press down and there is a pit that doesn't bounce back for a long time, then this pork trotter may not be fresh.
Observe the pork trotter hair
Choose processed pork trotters. If there is hair on the pork trotters, it will be more troublesome to process.
Benefits of Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans
Supplement nutrition
pork trotter and soybean soup is rich in nutrition and contains a large amount of protein, collagen, vitamins and minerals and other nutrients, which can supplement sufficient nutrition for the human body.
Beauty and skin care
pork trotter and soybean soup contains a large amount of collagen, which can promote the metabolism of the skin, increase the elasticity and luster of the skin, reduce the generation of wrinkles and make the skin younger.
Enhance breast and promote lactation
The collagen and protein in pork trotter and soybean soup help promote the development of breasts and maintain the fullness of breasts. For lactating women, it also has the effect of promoting lactation.
Improve sleep
The nutrients in pork trotter and soybean soup can provide the energy needed by the body, relieve fatigue and help improve sleep quality.
Strengthen muscles and bones
The calcium, collagen and other ingredients in pork trotter and soybean soup help enhance the strength and density of bones and prevent osteoporosis.
Nourish the body
pork trotter and soybean soup has the effect of nourishing the body and is suitable for people with weak bodies, those recovering from illness or those who need to recuperate.
Tips for Success
Select high-quality ingredients
To make Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans, choose fresh pork trotters. Choose fresh products with full meat, bright skin color and no peculiar smell. Such pork trotters will have a softer texture and more delicious soup after stewing.
Soybeans need to be selected with full grains, uniform color and no damage to ensure that they can quickly absorb the soup and become soft and delicious during stewing.
Red dates and dried plums can add sweetness and fruity fragrance to the soup and enhance the overall flavor.
Blanching treatment
pork trotters need to be blanched before stewing. Blanching can help remove the fishy smell of pork trotters.
When blanching, put the pork trotters into cold water and heat them slowly. As the water temperature rises, the blood and impurities in the pork trotters will gradually precipitate. After blanching, be sure to drain the water to avoid excessive moisture affecting subsequent cooking.
Heat control
Heat control is very important when stewing Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans. First, stir-fry pork trotters and soybeans over medium heat to make them fully absorb oil and emit fragrance.
Then add clear water and other seasonings and simmer over medium-low heat to let pork trotters and soybeans slowly release their respective deliciousness under mild heat to achieve the effect of tender meat and rich soup.
High-pressure stewing
When Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans is almost stewed, use a pressure cooker for the final stewing. This is the key to improving the taste and efficiency of Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans.
The pressure cooker can reach a high-temperature and high-pressure environment in a short time, making pork trotters and soybeans stewed until they are soft and rotten faster, while retaining more nutrients and delicious soup.
Moderate seasoning
Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans has high nutritional value and does not need too much seasoning. Salt is the key to seasoning. At the end of stewing, add salt according to personal taste to enhance the deliciousness of the soup without destroying the taste of the ingredients themselves.
INGREDIENTS
Main Ingredients
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·1 fresh pork trotter
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·50g yellow soybeans
Accessories
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·8 red dates
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·2 dried plums (prunes)
Seasonings
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·15ml oil
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·3g salt
COOKING STEP
Step 1
Pork trotter processing and blanching:
Take a fresh pork trotter, cut it into even small pieces, put it into a pot, add 500 milliliters of clear water, bring to a boil and blanch to remove blood and impurities.
After 2 - 3 minutes when the water boils, take out the pork trotter and drain the water.
Step 2
Stir-fry pork trotters:
Pour 15 milliliters of oil into the pot. After the oil is hot, put in the drained pork trotter pieces and stir-fry over medium-low heat to make the surface of the pork trotters heated evenly and turn slightly brown to stimulate the fragrance.
Step 3
Stir-fry soybeans:
Put 50 grams of soybeans into the pot and stir-fry with pork trotters for 3 - 5 minutes until the skin of soybeans is slightly wrinkled and the bean fragrance is emitted, making them initially heated and flavored.
Step 4
Add water and ingredients:
After the soybeans are fried, pour 500 milliliters of clear water to ensure that the water level just covers the ingredients. Then put in 8 red dates and 2 prunes to enrich the taste and nutrition of the soup.
Step 5
Seasoning:
Add 3 grams of salt to the pot and stir evenly to dissolve the salt in the water to adjust the base taste of the soup and make the tastes of various ingredients blend better.
Cover the pot and simmer over medium heat for 5 - 8 minutes. After the soup boils, pour all the ingredients into the pressure cooker.
Step 6
Pressurize with a pressure cooker:
After the pressure cooker is pressurized, press for 20 minutes to make the pork trotters become soft and glutinous and the soybeans become dense. After releasing the pressure, the Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans is ready and can be served.
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Serving Suggestions
Recommended combinations
Rice: Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans is very nutritious and suitable for eating with rice. The rich soup of Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans permeates into the rice, making the rice more fragrant.
Noodles: Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans can also be eaten with noodles and can be used as a topping for noodles. Pouring Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans on cooked noodles or vermicelli not only increases the richness of food but also makes the noodle soup delicious.
Dipping sauce: The taste of Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans is relatively light. If you like a rich taste, you can match homemade dipping sauce when eating pork trotters. Mix millet peppers, minced garlic, minced green onions and minced ginger, add aged vinegar, very fresh soy sauce, a little pepper powder and oil-poured chili peppers. Adjust the proportion of ingredients according to personal taste. This dipping sauce combined with soft and glutinous pork trotters has a unique flavor.
Eating suggestions
Eat in moderation: Although Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans is rich in nutrition, due to the fact that pork trotters contain more fat, excessive consumption may increase the burden on digestion. So drink it in moderation.
Eat while hot: The just-cooked Pork Trotter Soup with Soybeans tastes the best, soft and glutinous with a very good taste.
FAQs:
Putting them in cold water and heating them slowly can make the pork trotters gradually release blood and fishy smell as the water temperature rises, so as to better remove the fishy smell. If hot water is used for blanching, the skin of pork trotters will tighten quickly, resulting in the inability of internal blood and fishy smell to be fully discharged, ultimately affecting the taste and flavor of the soup.
Soaking soybeans in advance for at least 4-6 hours can make them fully absorb water and expand, making them easier to cook. This not only shortens the cooking time but also makes the taste of soybeans softer and glutinous and fully absorbs the taste of soup.
Remove hair: Use tweezers or special tools to completely remove the hair on pork trotters.
Blanching: Put it in cold water, add ginger slices, scallions and cooking wine. After boiling over high heat, skim off the foam.
Stir-fry sugar color: Stir-fry rock sugar over low heat until it turns golden yellow, then add pork trotters and stir-fry to color, which can increase the aroma and cover up the fishy smell.
pork trotters themselves contain fat, which will gradually dissolve out during the stewing process and make the soup rich. If you like a richer taste, you can add a small amount of oil when stir-frying pork trotters, but it is not recommended to add oil during the stewing process to avoid affecting the freshness of the soup.
