Pig's Trotters

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Mod edit: Well you asked for it, and here it is. Moved to a new post.(KKA)
And IMHO, the Spanish are absolute geniuses with pig's trotters ( or pigs hands, as they sometimes call them)
I'm posting a couple of classic Spanish recipes in a moment... or two. Enjoy!
Barriehie if you wanted to introduce trotters to someone who doesn’t like the idea of them what would your least trottery recipe be?

 

[Barriehie]

Barriehie if you wanted to introduce trotters to someone who doesn’t like the idea of them what would your least trottery recipe be?

I could easily work them into a vegetable soup.

 

[badjak]

Trotter bourgignon

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Trotter bourgignon

I don’t know if that’s a joke

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I could easily work them into a vegetable soup.

How?

 

[Barriehie]

How?

Kind of like I'm doing now. I'll post a recipe in the proper thread so as not to get mod chopped in this one.

Give me a day or two.

 

[Barriehie]

I don’t know if that’s a joke

I think it could be done with a white wine and either onions or mushrooms but not both. Going OT so I'm out!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Kind of like I'm doing now. I'll post a recipe in the proper thread so as not to get mod chopped in this one.

Give me a day or two.

“Mod chopped”

I really love that. Reckon the mods should adopt it as a warning -

mod comment - the modcopter is hovering, continue and you may find yourself modchopped

Accompanied with a kickass pic of a hard as nails machete wielding warrior leaning out of a helicopter

 

[SoCalZone10]

I could easily work them into a vegetable soup.

I make ramen noodle with the trotter soup, of course I cooked them very slowly in my crockpot and then divide them out and freeze them.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

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Perfect

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

What do you say mods. You could stop all naughty off topic behaviour with a simple pic!

 

[karadekoolaid]

Here we go then. I'm doing this as a public service, because no-one in my house eats trotters, or has a clue how to make them.
However, my late father-in-law loved them, and used to go to a local Spanish Tasca to eat them:
Manitas de cochino a la Madrileña (Trotters, Madrid style)
Tomorrow I'll try to find some other regional variations ( Galicia, Andalusia, Cataluña, Basque) and copy them here. I may even find some South American variations.

 

[badjak]

I don’t know if that’s a joke

Both,
It could work.
Maybe better with cider or white wine but red will work.
Slow cook, very slow (but Barriehie will be using a pressure cooker)

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Both,
It could work.
Maybe better with cider or white wine but red will work.
Slow cook, very slow (but Barriehie will be using a pressure cooker)

I’ve tried slow cooking them, I just ended up with a gelatinous mess and no discernible meat so I guessed I cooked it for too long

 

[karadekoolaid]

Here comes another classic Spanish recipe, this one from Basque country:
Manitas de cerdo a la Vizcaina (Trotters, Basque style)
The secret to cooking trotters, according to this recipe, is low and slow.
Basque cuisine is really, really good - there are a couple of excellent restaurants in Caracas and the way they cook seafood and fish is extraordinary.