Preparation

10 minutes
Cooking

30 minutes
Difficulty

Easy

Today, TasteVN will introduce you to a fried dish that is unusual, unique, and extremely delicious. It is the enticing, flavorful salt-roasted pig tail. This dish promises to bring your family a delightful experience from the very first taste. Let’s get cooking!

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1 Make Salt Roasting

2 Preparation of pig tails

3 Marinate and fry the pig tail

4 Shake with salt

5 Final Product

Ingredients for Salt-Roasted Pig Tail Serves 3

Pig tail 600 gr Regular rice 100 gr Sticky rice 100 gr Peeled green beans 100 gr Tapioca flour 100 gr Lemon 1/2 fruit Fresh chili 5 fruits Lemongrass 3 stalks Ginger 1/2 piece Cooking oil a little Fish sauce 2 tablespoons Salt/ pepper a little

How to choose good ingredients

How to choose fresh and delicious pig tails

To make the fried pig tail crispier and golden, you should choose long pig tails with plenty of skin, pinkish skin color, bright color, and good elasticity.
To select the best quality pig tails, you should go to the market in the morning when there are many freshly slaughtered pigs and more pig tails to choose from, or you can also buy quality, safe pig tails at reputable stores, food stalls, or supermarkets.
Avoid buying very small pig tails because they have little meat and skin, making them less tasty.

How to choose fragrant sticky rice

You should choose sticky rice grains that are large, uniform in size, not broken, not dusty, or yellowing.
Good sticky rice is made from solid grains with a natural fragrant aroma; when tasted, it has a slight sweetness and no strange smell.
It is advisable to buy sticky rice from reputable establishments, stores, or supermarkets to ensure you get the best quality sticky rice.

How to choose delicious mung beans

You can buy pre-peeled mung beans or buy whole mung beans and peel them at home.
Choose mung beans that are plump and evenly shaped, with no broken or infested kernels, and of moderate size—not too small or too large.
Opt for those that have a bright yellow color, are firm, and have a light, characteristic fragrance.
Avoid choosing mung beans that have strange colors, signs of dampness, or infestation.

Ingredients for fried pig tail dish

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Blender, bowl, small bowl, plate, spoon, …

How to prepare Salted Pork Tail

1

Make Salt Roasting

Put a pan on the stove, add 100g of regular rice and 100g of sticky rice, then roast over medium heat until fragrant and the rice changes from opaque white to light yellow.

Put the pan back on the stove, add 100g of peeled mung beans and roast until golden and fragrant.

Next, add the roasted rice and mung beans into a grinder with 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of pepper, then grind until fine and smooth.
2
Preparation of pig tails

After purchasing the pig tail, wash it briefly with water and then rub lemon on the surface of the pig tail. After that, rinse it thoroughly with water once more and let it drain.

While waiting for the pig tail to drain, you can proceed to crush ginger and lemongrass.

Put the pig tail into a pot with 1/2 of the lemongrass, ginger, and 1 liter of water, then bring it to a boil. Once the water is boiling, remove the pig tail and cut it into bite-sized pieces.
How to clean and deodorize pig tails
- You can use white wine, ginger, salt, lemon, or vinegar to rub the pig tail and let it sit for 5 – 10 minutes before rinsing it clean with water.
- When marinating the pig tail, you should roast a shallot, peel it, crush it, and marinate it with the meat to help effectively eliminate odors.
- Blanching the pig tail in boiling water with crushed ginger, shallots, and salt is also very effective in cleaning and deodorizing.
3

Marinate and fry the pig tail

Put the pig tail in a bowl, marinate with 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, then mix well and let it marinate for 10 minutes to absorb the seasonings.

Put the tapioca flour in a bowl, then add the pig tail and roll it in the flour so that the flour coats the pig tail evenly.

Heat a pan on the stove, add oil to cover 1/3 of the pan. Once the oil is hot, add the pig tail to fry on medium heat with 1/2 of the remaining smashed lemongrass and fresh chili, until the pig tail is golden and crispy, then turn off the heat and remove it to a bowl.
4

Shake with salt

You sprinkle salt into the bowl containing the fried pig tail and shake gently until the pig tail is evenly coated with salt.
5

Final Product

Crispy golden fried pig tails, with a faint aroma of lemongrass, salty roasted seasoning that tastes very delicious. This dish is best served with a bowl of chili sauce.