EN:Pig's Trotters

Pig's Trotters

Pig's trotters are the lower parts of a pig's legs. They are rich in collagen and are traditionally used in Czech cuisine to make aspic or head cheese.

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🍴 meat📅 year-round🌍 Pig's trotters come from pigs raised around the world, including in the Czech Republic.

🍳 Culinary uses

Pig's trotters are traditionally used to make aspic, and can also be prepared as confit or grilled.

🔍 How to choose

Choose fresh trotters with a clear color and no off odor.

📦 Storage

Store in the refrigerator and use within 2-3 days of purchase.

🔄 Substitutes

Beef feet can be used instead of pig's trotters for a similar texture.

💚 Health benefits

Pig's trotters contain collagen from their skin, tendons, and cartilage.

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Pig's trotters (pig's feet) are the lower parts of a pig's legs below the knee. They consist mainly of skin, tendons, cartilage, and bones, with very little muscle meat.

Cooking trotters requires patience: they may spend as long as three hours in a pot before everything becomes tender. The result is a gelatinous, collagen-rich preparation traditionally used to make aspic, known in Czech as huspenina or sulc, or added to Czech head cheese as a binding ingredient.

In Czech cuisine

Trotters were used mainly during traditional Czech pig slaughters. Cooked and cooled, they were served with vinegar, onion, and bread. The cooking liquid from trotters sets into a gel on its own without added gelatin.

Today, trotters have returned to fashion in restaurant cooking, where they are served confit-style, grilled, or breaded and fried. They have also remained part of rural pig-slaughter menus.

Calories	250 kcal
Protein	20 g
Fat	18 g
Carbohydrates	0 g
Fiber	0 g