What to do with the leftover pork skin after stuffing sausages? What is the best way to deal with the leftover pork skin after stuffing sausages?

We all know that sausage is a common delicacy. Before the Chinese New Year, many places have the custom of stuffing sausages. Pork is usually used to stuff sausages. After stuffing, there will usually be leftover pig skin, which would be a waste if thrown away. So what should we do with the leftover pig skin after stuffing sausages? Let's take a closer look!

How to deal with the leftover pork skin from sausage stuffing

Pig skin is generally clean, with a few parts having pig hair. You can boil it in boiling water, pick it up, and use an eyebrow clip to quickly remove the pig hair. Pig skin has a stronger smell than pork, and the smell of pig skin is also called "pigsty smell". The smell is even stronger when the pig skin is heated and eaten. Therefore, pig skin needs to be specially treated. First, remove the pig hair. Then, no matter how the pig skin is cooked, it must be blanched. You can add cooking wine or white wine to remove the fishy smell when blanching, which will generally reduce the fishy smell a lot.

What to do with the leftover pork skin from sausage stuffing

The pig skin left over from stuffing sausages is edible and can be used to make a variety of delicious dishes.

The general way to cook pig skin is to stew or braise it, and most people cook pig skin jelly. Especially the braised pig skin can be eaten cold, fried, or fried with various ingredients. It can also be used as stuffing for buns, dumplings, and pancakes, etc. You can use braised pig skin to make anything you want to eat, especially in winter, after making sausages, there are so many pig skins, and it is delicious to cook pig skin jelly.

Pig skin is a kind of meat with a high protein content. The protein content of pig skin is 2.5 times that of pork, and the carbohydrate content is four times higher than that of pork, but the fat content is only half of that of pork. Therefore, eating more pig skin will not make you fat. Pig skin contains a large amount of collagen, which can slow down the aging of body cells. Therefore, eating pig skin or pig's trotters regularly can delay aging and fight cancer.

How to make leftover pork rinds from sausage stuffing

Pig skin jelly

1. Clean the pig skin and put it into the pot, add ginger slices and cooking wine and blanch it. After taking it out, use a knife to scrape off the fat on the pig skin, cut it into shreds and wash it with cold water.

2. Add half a pot of water to the pot, put in the cleaned pork skin shreds, pour in cooking wine and scallions, turn on high heat, cover and simmer.

3. When the soup turns white, simmer over low heat until the soup becomes less, pick out the onion and ginger, pour the stewed pork skin and soup into the mold, wait for it to solidify, turn it upside down and cut it into pieces of appropriate size. Mix it with soy sauce, garlic juice, and spicy oil and vinegar. It is delicious. Be sure to scrape the oil off the pig skin.

Fried pork skin

First wash the pig skin, then add some salt and light soy sauce, roll it into a cylinder, put it into the pot and add some water to stew until you can directly pick it out with chopsticks, then cut it into slices, fry a little sauce and pour it on. It is a delicious and grand dish. You can try it!