Pigs Feet Souse Recipes

PIGFOOT SOUSE

Steps:

• Clean the meat and soak it in some water and lime. Season the meat with some green seasoning, garlic and onion.
• Pressure cook for about ½ hour or until the meat has fallen off the bone. Remove from the pressure cooker and place in a bowl. Wash out the excess oil. Set aside and cool.
• Blend chadon beni and seasoning pepper to make green seasoning.
• Place meat in serving bowl. Pour cold water over meat to cover. Arrange sliced onions, finely chopped hot green pepper over meat.
• Pour some more green seasoning over it. Add lime juice and salt to taste. Leave to marinate for about 2 hours before serving.
• Garnish with sprigs of fresh crisp watercress (optional).

PICKLED PIGS' FEET OR SOUSE

Steps:

• 1. scrape and clean feet well and put on to boil in enough salt water to cover. Simmer for approximately 4 hours or until meat will separate from the bones. Remove from pot, allow to cool, and chop the meat.
• 2. Mix stock in which meat was cooked with vinegar, salt, pepper and spices. Bring to the boiling point and hold for 30 minutes. Strain liquid to remove spices.
• 3. Place pieces of meat and chopped pickle - sour or dill? - in a flat dish or stone jar and pour sour liquid over it ( I guess the 2 cups stock in recipe). Chill in the refrigerator until perfectly cold. Slice and serve.

BARBADIAN SOUSE

Steps:

• Bring large pot of water to boil.
• Add salt to taste, pinch of black pepper, thyme, and pork (inspect parts of pig feet and pig head - shave hair if any).
• Cover and boil for 45 mins or until pork is tender and well cooked. Drain, cover and let cool.
• Dice pork parts into bite sized or slightly bigger pieces, leaving pig feet whole.
• Cut skin off breadfruit. Slice into half inch pieces. Bring separate pot of water to boil, add pinch of salt and breadfruit. Cook until tender. Drain water and let cool.
• Prepare "Pickle" - The base of this dish :.
• "Stripe" cucumbers and dice them into small pieces.
• Dice onions into small pieces.
• Chop parsley fine.
• Chop scotch bonnet peppers fine.
• Squeeze juice from limes. Be sure to strain into a container to avoid seeds and pith.
• Combine all "pickle" ingredients along with lime juice. Add salt to taste. Mix ingredients well for a minute making sure salt and lime juice are properly combined with ingredients. Add your pork and pig parts to the "pickle" and mix well. Let entire mixture sit (covered) in a cool place for 30-45 minutes.
• Serve in bowls or deep plates with breadfruit on the side. (If breadfruit is hard to come by in your area, you can substitute with fresh sweet potato or add some avocado) Please note dish is very spicy due to the scotch bonnet but you can decrease the amount of peppers you add. Enjoy and have a nice glass of Mount Gay rum and coke with it :-).

PIGS FEET SOUSE

Steps:

• Boil meats separately until done.
• Cook bay leaf, whole pepper and sliced lemon with the pigs feet.
• When meat is cooled, skin tongue and remove bones from pigs feet, along with the pepper, bay leaf and lemon slices.
• Cut beef and tongue and feet into small pieces and reheat all ingredients in one pot.
• Add salt to taste and vinegar if desired.
• Pour into loaf pans and chill.
• Slice as needed.
• This is almost like head cheese, since the pigs feet jell the mixture.

HOME MADE SOUSE

Steps:

• Place tongues, pig's ears, pig's feet, and onions in a large stock pot; add water to cover. Season with salt, pepper, whole peppercorns, sage, cloves, bay leaves, pickling spice, garlic powder and vinegar. Bring to a boil, and cook until meat is cooked, about 2 1/2 hours.
• Remove meat; set aside to cool. Strain broth, and measure 8 cups into another pot. Return broth to stove, and let simmer.
• Peel skin from ears, leaving the ear as intact as possible. Place the ears aside. Remove gristle and fat from pig's feet, and combine with ear trimmings. Cut off large portion of tongue and set aside. Trim loose meat from remainder of tongue, and combine with other trimmings. Put trimmings through a coarse meat grinder, then stir into broth; continue to simmer.
• Slice tongues into thin strips, and place lengthwise into 2 glass loaf pans, 9x5x3 inches. Slice ears into thin strips, then cut the strips into 1/2 inch pieces. Arrange the ear pieces among the tongue strips. Divide the pimiento and pepperoncini between the two molds. Sprinkle with pickle relish.
• Dissolve gelatin in 1 cup water. Stir into the simmering broth. Carefully ladle enough broth into each mold to completely cover the meat. Prod with a fork to uniformly distribute. Let stand 15 minutes, then cover with remaining broth. Allow to cool at room temperature, until they begin to jell, 2 to 3 hours. Refrigerate for 8 to 10 hours.
• When cool, run a thin knife around the sides of the mold to release the souse. Remove any fat that has accumulated on the surface.

MOM'S NEW YEARS PIG'S FEET

Steps:

• Thoroughly wash pig feet in cold water and place into a large pot or Dutch oven. Add celery, onion, vinegar, red pepper flakes, seasoned salt, garlic, black pepper, and bay leaves to the feet; pour in water to cover.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer until meat is tender and falling off the bones, about 2 hours.