Receipe here, how to cook the chicken feet. Use 28 feet (enough for a week's diet), to make the broth. 14 cups of water or more, few slices of ginger root, few tbsp. of rice wine, some shiitake dried mushrooms (rice wine and the shiitake dried mushrooms are optional, just for flavor and much better smell). In a big pot, put everything in there, after it boils, simmer for 2 hours, when the broth is kind of milky white (actually a bit beige) it's ready. put the broth in seven containers for 7 days. Either discard the feet or save them and when you have the broth eat together with the feet, this is the best if you can do it, but I know it's hard to eat that feet. You can use broth to make naga and borage soup, egg-drop soup, chicken noodle soup, or vegi soup, or always just eat broth by itself. I eat chicken feet broth evry day a must for my booby project
Rice wine is only for flavor and makes also nicer smell, so it optional to add, you can make without if you like. But also you can substitute rice wine with rice vinegar, so long that you like taste of the vinegar, as flavor of broth will be different, more sour than with wine.
Procedure:
A. The pig tail cleaning cutting and slicing, and fries after the hot water burns bails out spare.
B. The chicken feet cleaning cuts half, the shiitake mushroom soaks softly cuts half.
C. Puts in the water the complete material, to the fire cooks boils, after waits the water to boil transfers the flame, continues to boil out approximately for 1 hour, finally joins the little salt to blend flavors then.
Explained: The pig tail and the chicken feet not only can promote the breast growth, also has the remarkable effect regarding the beautiful skin.
just in case if anybody wonders about the toenails
December 22 2007, 9:10 AM
Usually the chicken feet from the supermarkets are already cleaned and "de-skinned(shelled)" with the toenails still "attached". Should you chop off the nails or not depends on if you want to eat the feet or not.
If you just want to use the broth, you don't need to chop off the nails, just discard the feet after you done making the broth, then you will need to cook it long enough to get most of the gelatin/collagen out of the feet, I usually like to simmer it for more than 1 1/2 hr.(because the gelatin will "dissolve" in water, that's why the broth will turn into jelly-like after chilled fridge).
If you want to eat the feet, better chop off the nails, because they are just not appetizing.
Hope this helps. :-)
P.S. the un-preped chicken foot has a thick(hard) layer of yellow skin(shell) covers the whole foot (including nails), so the supermarkets will get rid of that layer before they sell it, so the feet they sell did not touch the ground literally. They are clean even if they do still look gross. hehe. (don't know if this will make you feel better about the feet, though)
Please check these two threads, the second thread please check waxingmoon's comments see if these are the answers you are looking for? Or you can always check with doctors or do more research.
Hi, Thought I'd let you know that another way to cook this chicken feet soup is to boil it with raw peanuts and dried black-eye beans (Mei dow). It smells really yummy and it makes you want to eat the soup and beans :)
Oh and for those of you in Australia, I got 14 feet for $1 at the local Chinese butchers.