White Pork Stock

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4 litres

    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
Fire: A World of Flavour

By Christine Manfield

Published 2008

  • About

I make this fragrant Asian-inspired stock as a base for soups, to add to a stir-fry, or for slow-braising to extract maximum flavour during cooking.

Ingredients

  • 2 kg pork bones
  • 1 pig’s trotter
  • 75 ml Shaoxing rice

Method

Bring a stockpot of water to the boil and blanch the pork bones and trotter for 2 minutes. Remove from the pot, plunge into cold water then drain. Return the blanched bones to the rinsed-out pot with the remaining ingredients and pour in 5 litres of cold water. Slowly bring to a boil, then reduce t