pig's trotter

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A pig's trotter, also known as a pettitoe,{{cite web|title=Pettitoes Definition|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pettitoes|website=Merriam-Webster Dictionary|access-date=29 May 2016}} is the culinary term for a pig's foot. It is used as a cut of pork in various dishes around the world, and experienced a resurgence in the late 2000s.

Description

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Before sale, the trotters are cleaned and typically have the hairs pulled with a hot tank and beaters.{{cite news|last=Heath|first=Adrian|title=A modern bargain: Pig's Trotters|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8332000/8332186.stm|work=BBC News|date=30 October 2009}} They are often used in cooking to make stocks, as they add thickness to gravy, although they are also served as a normal cut of meat. In Puerto Rico, a tomato-based stew of pigs' trotters with chickpeas is called patitas de cerdo. Sometimes potatoes or butternut are added. British chef Marco Pierre White has long served trotters at his restaurants, based on the original recipe of mentor Pierre Koffmann.{{cite news|last=Cooke|first=Rachel|title=Pierre Koffmann: 'Not enough British chefs cook from the heart'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/20/pierre-koffmann-chef-interview|newspaper=The Guardian|date=20 June 2010}}

Following the Great Recession, there was a boom in popularity of pigs' trotters in the United Kingdom as a revival in cheap meat recipes occurred.{{cite news|last=Carmichael|first=Sri|title=Pig's trotters fly off the shelves as customers seek cheap meat cuts|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/pig-s-trotters-fly-off-the-shelves-as-customers-seek-cheap-meat-cuts-6800201.html|newspaper=The Evening Standard|date=21 October 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024082300/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23758922-pigs-trotters-fly-off-the-shelves-as-customers-seek-cheap-meat-cuts.do|archive-date=24 October 2009}} In 2008, British supermarket Waitrose reintroduced trotters to its stores,{{cite news|last=Wallop|first=Henry|title=Credit crunch sees Bath chaps, ox cheek and pigs trotters return|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3041958/Credit-crunch-sees-Bath-chaps-ox-cheek-and-pigs-trotters-return.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=21 September 2008}} and found that they quickly became popular.

In Norwegian tradition, pigs' feet are salted and boiled and served as syltelabb. This is a pre-Christmas dish because the pig was slaughtered before Christmas, and everything was used. Today syltelabb is for enthusiasts.https://thornews.com/2011/12/31/syltelabber-pickled-pigs-feet/ thornews

Recipes and combinations

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Bean crock (les pais au fou) in Jersey, Channel Islands
Batsoà from the Piedmont region of Italy
Cappello da prete in Modena, Italy
Chispalhada in Portugal: trotter with chickpeas or beans{{Cite web |title=Chispalhada: um prato para estômagos aventureiros |trans-title=Chispalhada; a dish for adventurous stomachs |last=Carvalho |first=Mónica |website=Ekonomista |date=20 October 2020 |url= https://www.e-konomista.pt/chispalhada-receitas/ |language=pt}}
Cotechino in Modena, Italy
Zampone in Modena, Italy
Körömpörkölt in Hungary
Crubeens in Ireland
Pied de cochon in Sainte-Menehould, France
Tebichi in Okinawa, Japan
Tom tin moo in Laos
Crispy pata, Paksiw na pata, and patatim in the Philippines
Manitas de cerdo in Spain
Jokbal in Korea
Patitas de cerdo en escabeche and manitas de cerdo en salsa verde o salsa roja in Mexico
Souse in Barbados and St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Spitzbein or Pfoten in German, known as golonka in Polish
Syltelabb, a traditional Norwegian dish
Inkokta grisfötter, a traditional Swedish dish similar to syltelabb
Kha mu, literally "pigs' feet" in Thai, influenced by Chinese stewed pork
Patitas con maní and Sarza de patitas in Peru{{cite book|title=Larousse de la gastronomía peruana: diccionario gatronómico ilustrado|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MID-tgAACAAJ|publisher=Q.W. Editores|date=2008|isbn=9789972589379|language=es|first=Gastón|last=Acurio|author-link=Gastón Acurio|location=Lima|page=293}}{{cite news|url=http://cuzcoeats.com/una-delicia-del-cusco-sarza-de-patas-de-cerdo/?lang=es|title=Una delicia del Cusco, sarza de patas de cerdo|access-date=23 August 2019|date=9 January 2018|website=Cuzco Eats|language=es-ES}}{{cite news|url=https://wapa.pe/hogar/1365851-almuerzo-prepara-patitas-mani-recetas-palta-rellena-gastronomia-comida|title=¿Cómo se prepara las patitas con maní? Aquí te enseñamos|access-date=23 August 2019|website=wapa.pe}}
Peus de porc in Catalonia