Pregnant women before, during and after giving birth need a lot of nutrients. The practice of nourishing with dishes has been a custom since ancient times left by our forefathers. To this day, this custom is still applied with very good results. There are many delicious foods for pregnant women. But perhaps, pork leg stewed with traditional Chinese medicine is the best dish for pregnant women. So, do the fathers know how to make this steamed pork leg meat dish? If not, follow Dung Ha Dry Food to the kitchen to find a way to cook this stewed pork leg with Chinese medicine!
1. What is the effect of stewed pork leg with traditional Chinese medicine?
Mothers eat and drink nutrients that are the premise for the baby in the womb to absorb all those nutrients. It is extremely important to be nourished with dishes such as ginseng chicken stew, red apple lotus seed chicken, papaya stewed pork leg, etc. It is both delicious and nutritious. It also helps the baby to be healthy and easily absorb all nutrients. A dish that mothers should use and have in their diet menu. Healthy mother, mischievous baby is what fathers are most excited about.
Pork leg stewed with traditional Chinese medicine is not only a dish for pregnant women. This is also a dish suitable for all ages, genders and professions. Only with the main ingredients are pork leg meat and some other medicinal ingredients. It is this perfect combination that creates a dish with many nutritional values. Pork leg stewed with traditional Chinese medicine brings many great effects such as:
- Restoring the health of newly ill people and women after giving birth
- Good for the development of the fetus in the womb
- Helps stimulate the digestive system to work better
- Add a variety of nutrients to the body
- Support eating more delicious
- Regulate stable sleep, overcome sleep problems, insomnia, and poor sleep
- Replenish energy for the body, prevent fatigue, stress, pressure
- Good for the development of bones and joints that are always supple, sustainable and strong
2. Traditional Chinese medicine stewed pork leg meat
2.1 Preparation materials
- Pork leg: 1 pc
- Salt: 1 teaspoon
- Traditional Chinese medicine: 1 pack (Red apple + dried lotus seeds + kumquat + longan + goji berries)
- Dried forest shiitake: 100gr
- Carrot: 1 piece
- Coconut milk: 150ml
- Green onions: 3 branches
- Coriander: 1 handful
- Seasoning: ground pepper, monosodium glutamate, seasoning
To get a delicious dish, the input ingredients you need to be carefully checked. Some good tips to help you choose to buy materials. Specifically:
- You should buy pig’s feet in the early morning around 6-8 o’clock. This is the time when the slaughterhouse owners have just finished slaughtering pigs
- Choose to buy pig’s feet before or after depending on the purpose. The front legs will be big, less meaty, and the meat will be soft. The hind legs are small, fleshy, tough
- Press the pig’s leg with your hand to see the elasticity
- Go buy the legs are pure white, there are no signs on the legs of the pig
- Should buy pig’s feet at reputable business establishments or shopping centers
- Traditional Chinese medicine you can buy ingredients one by one. Or you can purchase a pre-packaged finished product. Should buy at dry goods stores in the area where you live
- Carrots buy the tubers of the right size. Should choose to buy fruit that is not chestnut, straight, long, no signs of pests or black dots on the body
2.2 Preliminary processing of raw materials
- Buy pork leg, use a razor, shave off the fluff and baby hair stuck on the pig’s leg
- Wash pork leg under clean running water, let dry
- Put the pork shank on the cutting board, chop the onion into small pieces just enough to eat
- Mix a pot of diluted salt water, put the pork shank in it and soak it in dilute salt water for about 5 minutes to clean it and cover the fishy smell.
- Pick it up, rinse it under clean water again and then let it dry
- Dried forest shiitake mushrooms are soaked in warm water for about 5 minutes
- Using scissors, cut off the base of the mushroom
- Pick up the mushrooms, use your hands to gently squeeze the mushrooms out of water. Put it in a bowl
- The herbal ingredients are washed with water. Put it in a bowl
- Peel the carrots and wash them well. Slice into circles and then continue to thinly cut into flower shapes
- Coriander + scallions pick up damaged, rotten leaves, crush them and discard them. Wash and finely chop
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2.3 Implementation steps
- North on the stove about 350ml of boiling water, put the pork shank in boiling water for about 2 minutes and then drain it in a bowl.
- Put in a bowl of pork rolls, including: 1 seasoning + 1 seasoning + 1 fish sauce powder + 1 monosodium glutamate + 1 cooking oil. Mix up. Let it sit for about 20 minutes for the pork leg to soak in each marinade
- Put the ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine into the stew pot, add 150ml of coconut milk and 350ml of filtered water. Turn on the stove to boil this broth first
- When the broth boils, you start to put the pork leg into the stew for about 30 minutes to cook the pork leg
- Lower the stove to low heat. Open the lid, use a ladle to skim off the cloudy scum floating on the surface of the broth
- Stir well and season to taste
- After stewing for 30 minutes, start adding carrots + dried wild shiitake mushrooms into the stew for about 15 minutes so that all ingredients are cooked as well as salted.
- Turn off the heat, add green onions + coriander, stir for the last time and then lower the pot
- Ladle the finished product into a bowl, best eaten with hot soup or served with hot rice
3. Pork leg meat stewed with traditional Chinese medicine
3.1 Preparation materials
- Pork leg: 1 pc
- Salt: 2 tablespoons
- Red Apple: 15g
- Goji berries: 15g
- Lotus seeds: 15gr
- Label of shame: 10gr
- Dried shiitake mushrooms: 25gr
- Kohlrabi: 1 piece
- Carrot: 1 piece
- Green onions: 3 branches
- Coriander: 1 handful
- Spices: seasoning, monosodium glutamate, ground pepper
3.2 Preliminary processing of raw materials
- Buy pork leg, use a razor, shave off the hairs stuck on the pig’s leg
- Rinse under clean running water, let dry
- Put the pork belly on a cutting board, cut it in half to fit the casserole
- Mix a basin of diluted salt water, put the pork leg in salt water for about 5 minutes to clean the pork leg and cover the fishy smell.
- Pick up, wash the pork leg with clean water, drain
- The shiitake mushrooms are soaked in warm water so that the mushrooms are soft and easy to prepare
- Using scissors, cut off the base of the mushroom
- Mushrooms are washed under the tap, gently squeeze the mushrooms to dry out
- Red apple + goji berry + longan + longan + lotus seeds are washed with clean water. Dry
- Kohlrabi peeled, washed, cut into pieces just enough to eat
- Peel the carrots, wash them, and cut them into circles. Using a sharp knife, trim it back into the shape of a flower
- Green onions + coriander pick the damaged leaves, wash and finely chop
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3.3 Implementation steps
- Put on the stove a pot of water and then bring to a boil, boil the pork leg for about 5 minutes until the pork is cooked, then take it out to drain.
- Put pork leg into a bowl, add 1 seasoning + 1 seasoning + 1 cooking oil + 1 MSG. Mix the pork leg well
- Cover with food wrap, leave for about 20 minutes for the marinade to infuse into the pork leg
- Put 350ml of filtered water into the stew pot, put the ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine into the stew first to color the water
- When the broth starts to turn reddish brown, you put the pork rolls into the stew for about 35 minutes until the pork rolls are cooked
- When the broth boils, open the lid and use a ladle to skim off the cloudy scum floating on the surface of the water
- Stir well and taste to see if it’s right for your mouth
- If the broth is already in your mouth, add the carrots + kohlrabi + dried shiitake mushrooms into the stew with pork rolls for about 30 minutes to let all the ingredients cook and soak up the salted fish sauce.
- After all the ingredients are cooked, turn off the stove. Add scallions + coriander, stir and lower the pot
- Ladle the finished product into a bowl and should be eaten while the soup is still hot or served with hot white rice
4. Pork leg stewed with wormwood herbal medicine
4.1 Preparation materials
- Pork leg: 1 pc
- Salt: 2 tablespoons
- Lotus seeds: 15gr
- Jujube: 15g
- Goji berries: 15g
- Brand Name: 15gr
- Longan: 15gr
- Wormwood: 50g
- Spices: seasoning, monosodium glutamate, ground pepper
4.2 Preliminary processing of raw materials
- Buy pork leg, use a razor, shave off the fluff and baby hair stuck on the pig’s leg
- Wash pork leg under clean running water, let dry
- Put the pork leg on the cutting board, cut it into small pieces just enough to eat
- Mix a basin of diluted salt water, put the pork rolls in and soak them in salt water for about 7 minutes so that the pork rolls overwhelm the smell
- Pick up the pork leg, wash it under clean running water, let it dry
- Lotus seed + jujube + goji berry + longan + longan. You wash it with clean water, let it dry
- Wormwood leaves the deep, wilted, yellow leaves away. Wash, dry, and cut into small pieces
4.3 Implementation steps
- Put on the stove 350ml of water, bring to a boil, put the pork leg in boiling water for about 5 minutes so that the pork leg is cooked to hunt again. Place in a bowl to drain
- Put on the stove a pot of stewed water with 400ml of filtered water, bring the broth to a boil
- Boiling water, you put jujube + goji berries + longan + longan + lotus seeds into the cellar to create water color
- The broth starts to turn reddish brown, then you put the pre-prepared pork shank in the stew with medium heat for about 35 minutes
- The broth boils, you open the lid and skim off the cloudy scum floating on the surface
- Add 1 seasoning + 1 seasoning + 1 monosodium glutamate to the broth. Stir well with your hands and season to taste
- The broth is rich in flavor, you put the wormwood in the stew for about 15 minutes and the vegetables will be cooked
- Finally, turn off the stove, lower the pot for green onions + coriander + ground pepper. Turn over one last turn, then scoop out into a bowl and enjoy
- Best eaten while the stew is still hot and should be eaten with steamed rice
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5. Pork leg stewed with Chinese medicine with lotus seeds
5.1 Preparation ingredients
- Pork leg: 1 pc
- Salt: 2 tablespoons
- Red Apple: 15g
- Goji berries: 15g
- Brand Name: 15gr
- Longan: 15gr
- Fresh lotus seeds: 75gr
- Wormwood: 50g
- Dried shiitake mushrooms: 25gr
- Green onions: 3 branches
- Coriander: 1 handful
- Coconut milk: 150ml
- Spices: seasoning, monosodium glutamate, ground pepper
5.2 Preliminary processing of materials
- Buy pork leg, use a razor, shave off the fluff and baby hair stuck on the pig’s leg
- Rinse under clean running water, let dry
- Put the pork leg on the cutting board, cut it into small pieces just enough to eat
- Mix a pot of diluted salt water, put the pork shank in salt water for about 7 minutes to clean the dirt and cover the bad smell.
- Pick up the pork leg, wash it with clean water, let it dry
- Fresh lotus seeds, you use a pointed object through the lotus center
- Wash and dry
- Wormwood cut off the roots, pick up the damaged, yellowed leaves and discard. Wash and dry
- Shiitake mushrooms soaked in warm water for about 5 minutes for soft mushrooms, easy to prepare
- Use scissors to cut off the legs of the mushrooms, rinse with clean water. Use your hands to gently squeeze the mushrooms to dry out
- The ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine you wash with warm water and then drain
5.3 Implementation steps
- North on the stove about 350ml of water and proceed to boil, the water boils, you put the pork rolls in and cook until the pork rolls are hunted again. Take out the pork shank in a bowl
- Put in a bowl of pork rolls including: 1 seasoning + 1 monosodium glutamate + 1 seasoning + 1 fish sauce. Proceed to mix well with pork shank
- Wrap food in cling film, leave for about 25 minutes for the seasoning ingredients to penetrate deep into the pork leg
- North on the stove, casserole, 150ml coconut milk with 350ml filtered water. Stir well, turn on the stove and proceed to boil this broth first
- Boiling water, you add red apple + goji berry + longan + longan first to make the stew water color
- The broth starts to turn reddish brown, then you put the pork rolls into the stew for about 35 minutes to let the pork rolls cook
- Taste the stew to your taste
- The broth is mouth-watering, you put fresh lotus seeds into the stew for about 25 minutes before the lotus seeds are cooked
- Lotus seeds are stewed for 25 minutes, you add the wormwood + dried shiitake mushrooms into the stew for 15 minutes with pork leg
- After stewing for 1 hour and 15 minutes, turn off the stove. Add scallions + coriander + ground pepper and stir for the last time and then lower the pot
- Ladle the finished products into bowls and enjoy while they are still hot. Serve with white rice so you don’t get bored
6. Conclusion
Above is the entire article sharing details on how to cook delicious and flavorful stewed pork leg meat that you can refer to. These are all extremely simple recipes, not too difficult that anyone can do. It is important to have a delicious dish that the input ingredients need to be put on top. The input ingredients determine up to 85% of the success of that dish.
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