Sweet Pork Hocks W/ Green Onions

A step away from the usual sour, salty and spicy pork dish is this sweet dish using hocks cooked for hours in a crock-pot. It’s not something I make all the time because I much prefer salty, sour, and spicy tastes but it’s also good once in a while.

INGREDIENTS:
5-6 pieces of pork hocks
salt and pepper
3 cloves of garlic, sliced thinly
1 tsp of garlic powder
oil for browning
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
3 whole bay leaves
5 sprigs of green onions, cut in halves

 

Heat oil in a pan.

 

Season the hocks in salt, pepper, fresh garlic slices, and garlic powder. Marinate for a few minutes or so. Brown each hocks on both sides 2 minutes, jut long enough to seal the juice in.

 

Transfer the browned hocks in a crock-pot. Add soy sauce. Combine brown sugar and water in a bowl, then pour over the hocks.

 

Place the bay leaves on top.

 

Set the crock-pot in either HIGH or LOW settings. 4 hours for high and about 7 hours for low. This depends on what time you’re eating dinner. The pork should be tender once cooked. It should be falling off of the bone.

 

At the very end, add the green onions. You can turn off the crock-pot at this point. The green onions should cook from the heat.

 

—originally posted at old Blisstree/b5media—