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Sweet and Sour Pork is one of the most known dishes to the westerners. Chinese actually have many very tasteful dishes with pork. Barbecue pork is another one. Chinese cooking will do away many fat and retain the taste of the pork. Thus the dish with pork is still very healthy and delicious.



Trotters with Ginger

What You'll Need:
- 4 pig's trotters
- 250g (8oz) green ringer
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups brown vinegar
- 2 thin Chinese turnips




1. Ask the butcher to cut the trotters into 5cm ( 2 in.) pieces. Place trotters
into large bowl, cover with cold water, allow to stand for 15 minutes.
Drain,cover with fresh water, allow to stand for 15 minutes. Drain place
trotters in large saucepan or small boiler. Cover well with cold water.
Place over heat, bring to boil. Cover and boil for one minute, drain.
Cover again with cold water, bring for one minute, drain.

2. With small sharp knife, scrape skin from ginger, cut ginger into chunky
pieces, approximately 1cm (1/2 in.) Peel Chinese turnips, cut into 2 5cm (1 in)
lengths.

3. Return trotters to pan, add vinegar and sugar. Add prepared ginger, stir
until combined. Place pan over heat, bring to boil, reduce heat, cover and
simmer two hours. Stir occasionally.

4. Add prepared turnips to pan, cover, simmer for a further 60 minutes. During
last 15 minutes of cooking time, remove lid, increase heat slightly. Ginger
sauce should be reduced enough to coat pig's trotters in a thick glaze. Be
careful, as the reduced liquid can burn on the bottom of pan. Stir occasionally<
during the last 15 minutes of cooking time.





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