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Grilled Pig’s Feet

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

Pig’s feet as cooked by the charcutiers of Ste Menehould - for 48 hours so that the bones are soft enough to be eaten - are a curiosity. Their recipe is secret, possibly involving some type of pressure cooking. Grilled pig’s feet, as in this recipe, certainly have much more flavour since the meat is not overdone.

Ingredients

4 pig’s feet

Method

Put the pig’s feet into a large pot of cold water, bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Refresh the pig’s feet with running water, scrape them clean, rinse and drain well. Split the feet lengthwise without completely separating the two halves. Bind each foot tightly with a cloth to hold it in its original shape.

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