Have you tried Korean jokbal? Is there a food like pork feet in your hometown? My hometown also eats pig trotters well, but the recipe and taste are completely different from Korean pig trotters!. Shall we learn about the characteristics of Korean jokbal and interesting stories related to it?~~.

What kind of food is jokbal?

It is easy to eat because it is usually served sliced, unlike Schweins Hakse, where you boil whole legs and then bake them in the oven and cut them yourself. It is a food that eats lean meat and skin, but it also comes with the whole bone of pork leg. Since the flesh or skin is attached to the level of scraps, you can eat it off!.

I use a lot of front legs when making jokbal!

Compared to the tough hind legs, the greasy forelimbs are preferred due to the prominent cartilage. The other reason is that the hind legs are thick, so it's difficult to cook them evenly. If you boil the hind leg meat until it is fully cooked, the skin will peel off and it will shrink, ruining its marketability. In fact, not only the pig's feet, but usually the pork leg itself, the front leg is more expensive than the hind leg!. That's why there are people who went to a pig's trotter shop and said that the hind legs were mixed[2] and asked to change to the front legs!

How to make pork feet

The recipe itself is very simple!. All you have to do is put the meat in the sauce and boil it. The pork feet recipe is:

1. Wash the purchased meat well and remove fine hairs. After that, it is post-processed to remove the impurities. If you put it in beer and boil it, you can solve it for a relatively cheap price.

2. Prepare seasoning. Originally, only soy sauce is used, but it will not taste right by home standards, so add soy sauce, starch syrup, sugar, cola, coffee powder, and ssanghwatang, etc. properly mixed and boil with vegetables.

3. Put the meat, which was previously treated to remove the nasty smell, into the seasoning and boil it thoroughly. If you stick your chopstick into the meat on the bone side, it's done and you can take it out.

the taste of pork feet

Regular pork feet have a good texture and are delicious with soft lean meat and chewy skin. Representatively, there are barbecue pig feet and non-jok feet. It is a dish that combines the barbecue method of grilling or oven-cooking the boiled pig's feet instead of just eating them. The sauce is also accompanied by a barbecue sauce or a sauce suitable for barbecue, and it is derived from this and grilled with spicy seasoning or it does not go through the grilling process, but if you apply only the spicy sauce, it is a dish! There are also cold pork feet, garlic pig feet, and pork feet soup.

When you eat jokbal, it's really delicious if you eat it with makguksu!. Barbecue jokbal or buljokbal is a combination of rice balls, steamed egg and honey!. Have you tried Korean jokbal? If you know of a pork trotter restaurant, please introduce it to Jo Se-yong~~.