Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pickled pig trotters. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This Pickled Pig's Trotters recipe will make some of you say 'Woah Nelly!', and others of you head straight to grab a fork! If you're not from the Deep South, this definitely one of the more 'out-there' recipes I've posted but bear with me! A couple of years ago I had a real love affair with the cuisine of the Southern States, after a month-long road trip through Alabama.

Pickled Pig Trotters is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Pickled Pig Trotters is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pickled pig trotters using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pickled Pig Trotters:

1. Get 8 lbs split Pig trotters
2. Take 1 Tbsp Badia Complete Seasoning
3. Take 1 Tbsp Adobo Seasoning
4. Take 1 Tbsp Don Sazon pork chop seasoning
5. Take 2 Tbsp onion powder
6. Make ready 16 garlic cloves lightly crushed
7. Make ready 8 sterilized one quart canning jars with bands and lids
8. Take Red food coloring (Optional)
9. Prepare 1/4 cup pickling salt
10. Prepare 16 dehydrated arbol chiles
11. Make ready 3 quarts white distilled vinegar
12. Take 1 quart water

Use a very sharp paring knife or a disposable safety razor to remove stubble. Pour the two types of vinegar into a large pot and add the pork trotters. When the trotters come off the grill, the skin will be crispy and a little chewy, the meat and tendons inside, extremely tender. The feet will be finger-licking good and to add to the pleasure of the experience, serve them with a impromptu sauce of kecap manis mixed with more chili and garlic sauce, and a bit of vinegar or tamarind sauce to.

Instructions to make Pickled Pig Trotters:

1. Wash and rinse trotters
2. Place trotters in large pot and cover with water and add seasonings. And 8 of the garlic cloves.
3. After pot comes to a boil remove any foamy impurities that come to top.
4. Cook until tender but not falling off the bone sbout 2 1/2 hours.
5. Remove from pot rinse with warm water to remove any residual fat and let cool.
6. Add two arbol chiles and one clove of garlic to each jar.
7. After the trotters are cool enough to handle pack jars evenly. And add 2 drops of red food coloring to each jar. (Optional)
8. Pour vinegar, water, and salt in a non reactive pot and bring to boil until salt dissolves.
9. Pour brine into jars leaving 1/4 inch head space.
10. Add lids and bands finger tight.
11. Process in water bath canner for 40 min. (start timer when water boils)
12. After processing, place on paper towels to cool. Make sure all lids have pulled down and sealed let jars rest for 7 days then enjoy. If you have a jar that does not seal store in refrigerator.

The pig's trotters (aka pork knuckles) are so moist, tender and succulent after the slow cooking in the tasty sweetened black vinegar. The natural collagen of pig's trotters is very good for our health too. Both of my daughter and hubby especially like the hard boiled eggs that soaked in the tasty sauce. They can finish one after another. Teochew jellied pig trotter, or tir kah dang as it's known in the dialect, is a disappearing dish in Singapore's hawker culture.

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