Recipe: Tasty Pork hock vege stew

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Pork hock vege stew. Great recipe for Pork hock vege stew. I prefer to cook this recipe with a slow cooker but it's fine if you want to use pressure cooker or normal pot. With normal pot, you have to stir it occasionally so things doesn't stick to the bottom of the pot.

This dish is simply pork pata (or pork legs) that are slow cooked with potatoes, carrots, tomato sauce and spices.

It is a perfect lunch treat that I like to have with rice or crackers.

Cover pork hocks with water, add chopped onion, garlic powder, allspice, salt and pepper.

You can have Pork hock vege stew using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pork hock vege stew

1. You need 1 kg of Pork hock.

2. You need of Potato.

3. You need 1 of White Radish (Daikon).

4. Prepare 2 of Carrots.

5. Prepare 5 of Shiitake mushrooms.

6. You need 1 handful of Lotus seed.

7. Prepare of Sliced Lotus root.

8. Prepare 2 of good size Bok Choys.

9. It’s of Salt.

Remove hocks, cool and take meat off bones.

Method In a large bowl, season pork hocks with salt, soy sauce and food browning.

Transfer the pork hocks into a large Ziploc bag then add the mixed powdered seasonings (dry-rub).

Close bag, next, shake the bag vigorously to distribute the seasoning all over the pork hocks.

Pork hock vege stew step by step

1. In a large pot, boil the pork hock until bubbly. Drain the water and clean the pork thoroughly under cold water. Do this step TWICE..

2. Move the pork into a slow/pressure cooker and fill water to cover the pork. If you dont have one, just use a large pot..

3. If you use dried Shiitake, rinse and soak them with hot water..

4. Peel and cut daikon, carrots, bok choy and potatoes into big cubes..

5. Boil the daikon for a few minutes to lighten the smell and taste..

6. Add daikon, shiitake, lotus seed and carrots into the pot with the pork hock..

7. Add 1 table spoon of salt..

8. If you use slow cooker, set it to 2h. If you use pressure cooker, cook for 30-45mins until the pork is soft. If you use normal pot, bring the pot to boil and shimmer for 2h..

9. Put the potatoes, lotus root and bok choy in, stir a little for them to be soaked in stock and cook for another 1 hour if you use slow cooker or pot; 15-20mins or until the potatoes are soft if you use pressure cooker..

10. Serve with rice, bread, egg noodle or just by itself if you put a lot of potatoes in..

Tightly seal bag; turn bag several times to coat pork well.

Cook the leeks until soft then add the carrots and swede.

In a small bowl, whisk broth and tomato paste; pour over vegetables.

Pork Pata (hocks or knuckles)- They are cheaper cut of meat, bonier with a lot of tendons, ligaments, and fat that turn gelatinous and very tasty after long cooking.

Pork Shoulder - have a good amount of fats and connective tissue and eat as well that is also great for stew.