4 ways to make delicious fake dog meatballs, standard flavors of the 3 regions North, Central, South

Fake dog trotters are a familiar dish in the daily meals of many Vietnamese families. Depending on the region, people have different ways of making fake dog trotters.

Braised pig's feet with fake dog meat is a dish loved by many Vietnamese families, especially on rainy, cold days. Depending on the region, the way to make this dish is slightly different.

For example, in the North, after being grilled to get a beautiful color, the pork leg is often marinated with crushed galangal, turmeric juice, lemongrass, shrimp paste... then cooked twice to make the meat tender but the skin still crispy.

In the Central region, the dish of braised pig's feet often has the sweetness of molasses, mixed with a bit of bitterness from tea... and the color also tends to be red or dark brown.

In the South, especially in the Southwest region, this dish is prepared a bit sweet due to the influence of the culinary culture of the Khmer and the Chinese of Teochew origin, and cannot lack familiar ingredients such as fermented bean curd and fresh coconut water.

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• How to make fake dog meat stew with Northern style
• How to make Central Vietnamese style fake dog meat stew
• How to make Southern style fake dog meat stew
• How to cook fake dog feet without yeast

How to make fake dog meat stew with Northern style

Northern-style braised pig's feet often have special spices such as fermented rice, shrimp paste, etc., making a strong impression from appearance to flavor.

Northern-style fake dog trotters have a harmonious flavor from ingredients such as galangal, fermented rice, shrimp paste..., and are delicious when eaten with vermicelli. Photo: Huong Thu

Each piece of fake dog meat has an attractive golden brown color. When eaten, the skin is crispy on the outside, the meat is soft on the inside, the juice is golden, and has the aroma of shrimp paste, galangal, and rice vinegar.

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How to make Central Vietnamese style fake dog meat stew

The Central Vietnamese style fake dog meat is a bit different with soft but not mushy meat, slightly sweet from molasses, fragrant from shrimp paste and rice vinegar, and beautiful color.

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The way to make Central Vietnamese style fake dog trotters is quite simple, combined with tea and molasses to create a delicious natural flavor. Photo: Chau Ngoc

How to make Southern style fake dog meat stew

In the South, the pork leg is cut into pieces, marinated with galangal, lemongrass, turmeric, and a little shrimp paste, sugar, and fermented bean curd, creating a natural sweetness, slightly different from the taste of people in the Central and Northern regions.

Depending on each family, people can caramelize sugar or add a little caramel color to the dish to give it a beautiful brown color.

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Southern fake dog trotters have a unique taste from fermented bean curd. Photo: Duyen Do Le My

How to cook fake dog feet without yeast

Instead of using yeast, you can use other alternative ingredients such as vinegar or unsweetened yogurt to make the fake dog leg dish more delicious and unique without taking much time and effort to prepare.

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To make the fake dog meat dish more delicious, you should buy the front pig's leg because the front leg works a lot so the meat will be thinner, softer, sweeter and have more tendons than the back leg.

Good ham hocks are usually firm, elastic, with even meat fibers and intact nails that have not fallen off.

Making fake dog meat is not difficult, but requires the cook to pay attention to some experience to make the dish more attractive. Photo: Tham Ga

You should buy ham hocks that are bright pink and have no unusual odor.

Avoid buying pork legs that are waterlogged inside, have a membrane on the outside, when cut the meat oozes yellow fluid and have white bumps on the meat, because this could be a pig infected with tapeworm.

You should buy young galangal to make fake dog meat. You should not buy pre-ground galangal from the market because the quality is not guaranteed.

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