Slow-Cooked Chinese Pork Hock Recipe

1 lb pork hock, cut into 3-4 pieces

1/2 cup vinegar

1/4 cup soysauce

1/4 cup brown sugar or 1 sugar bar

2-3 bayleaf

2-3 star anise

Oregano
2 cloves garlic, crushed
4-5 Shitake Mushrooms, soaked and softened (optional)*

1/2 cup dried banana blossom, soaked in water to soften (optional)*

Wash pork hock very well, then put in your crockpot.

Add all ingredients in, topping it with the banana blossom.

Set crockpot in high for 2 hours, then reduce to low for another 2 hours or till the hocks are tender enough that the meat slightly separates from its bone.

Serve warm with rice.

*Choose between dried banana blossom and shiitake mushrooms only. They give off different flavor, yet both very savory.

 

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