Pig’s Tongue with Spices

Name: Pig’s Tongue with Spices (Wu hsiang chu li)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 cup soy sauce; 2 tablespoons sugar; 2 tablespoons wine; 10 cups water; 2 green onions; 1 pig’s tongue; 2 star anise; 3 slices ginger; 1 tablespoon brown pepper corn; 1 slice orange peel

Wu hsiang chu li

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 pig’s tongue
2 green onions
3 slices ginger

Asia
Taiwan
Starter

Method

Clean pig’s tongue, and scald in boiling water for 3 minutes. Remove and wash again.
Boil 10 cups water in a pan, add green onions, ginger, star anise, dried orange peel, and brown pepper corn. Season with soy sauce, sugar, and wine, cook for 20 minutes over low heat.
Put pig’s tongue in soup, and cook for 30 minutes over low heat, until the tongue be