Turmeric-Braised Pigs' Feet
By: Sweet Posie
Published: Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 4:44pm

Ingredients




1 tablespoon Turmeric
3 tablespoons Fish Sauce
 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
6 pieces Pigs' feet
1/2 cup water
1 handful dried black fungus (soaked in hot water for 15 min then rinsed with cold water)
1/2 cup roasted peanuts (optional) and added in the last 10 min of cooking

Preparation

1 Boil the pig feet for a few minutes and then rinse cold. 2 Then put all the ingredients in a pot that will fit the pig's feet and set to a med high temperature until you have a good simmer going. 3 Then reduce the heat and adjust the sauce to your taste.  This dish is suppose to be slightly sweet and salty and meant to be eaten with rice. 4 If you can pierce the pig's feet with a fork easily, the feet are done and ready to be eaten...usually in about 40 minute.

About


* All of these ingredients can be purchased at an Asian Supermarket
This is a dish that my family has always enjoyed and very simple to throw together because of its five ingredients.  My mother usually makes a big pot, enough for today and tomorrow meal, because it's even better the next day, once the sauce permeate into the meat.  
This dish would not be the dish it is without turmeric. The turmeric gives a lovely yellow and distinctive flavor to this great dish.  My nephews loves eating this dish because its chewy soft texture and the sweet/salty mixture that you can eat with rice, and it pairs well with any green Asian vegetable, like bok choy or water spinach.
Most people tend to be turn off by pig's feet but I have made this for my friends and they have enjoyed it quite a bit.  Only warning, if you never had pig's feet before, there is a lot of tiny bones and cartilages, but then that's the point of eating pig's feet. (I think Asian people in general loves to chew on bones, thus you have the famous chicken feet and pork spareribs at the dim sum restaurant.)