Spiced Pig Tongues

Ingredients

  • Pig tongues - 2 pieces
  • Chinese rose wine - 2 teaspoons
  • Spring onions - 2 stalks
  • Ginger - 2 slices
  • Light soy sauce - ½ cup
  • Dark soy sauce - 2 tablespoons
  • Cooking wine - 3 tablespoons
  • Rock sugar (crushed) - 2 tablespoons
  • Water - 6 cups

Ingredients for Chinese spice sauce

  • Star anise - 2 pieces
  • Sichuan pepper - 1 teaspoon
  • Cinnamon - 1 slice
  • Licorice root - 1 piece
  • Cardamom - 1 piece
  • Clove - 3 pieces
  • Ground cumin - 1 teaspoon

Method

  • Pack ingredients for the Chinese spice sauce into a muslin bag and cook together with 6 cups of water for 30 minutes. Remove all ingredients in muslin bag from sauce. Add Cooking wine, rock sugar, light and dark soy sauce and boil for another 5 minutes.
  • Clean and blanch pig tongues in boiling water for a while, dish out and remove the outer tissues.
  • Cook in boiling water with ginger and spring onions for another 10 minutes then rinse with cold water.
  • Apply Chinese rose wine on the pig tongues and continue to cook in spice sauce for another 20 minutes with low heat.
  • Dish out and let it cool, cut into slices, top with little bit of spice sauce and serve.

 

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