Braised Pork Trotters

Ingredients:1 kg Pork leg with meat (with skin on it - front leg)
2 pcs dried chilli with stem unpluck (this is to retain the seeds from coming out while cooking)
10 pcs of garlics
2.5 cm of cinnamon
Seasoning for the pork leg:1 tbsp of light soya sauce
1 tbsp of dark soya sauce
Gravy:2 bowls (600 ml) of water
3 tbsp of light soya sauce
2 tbsp of dark soya sauce
1 tbsp of sugar
1 tbsp of black vinegar

Method:1. Wash & drain the pork leg for about 20 - 25 mins. Put it in a mixing bowl, add 1 tbsp of light soya sauce, 1 tbsp of dark soya sauce. Use a rice scoop to mix it, do not use your hands.
2. Stir it upwards for 3 - 5 mins until it turn sticky and dry, you dun see any liquid content. Heat 2 tbsp of cooking oil, once the wok is hot, put in the pork leg, skin facing down to fry, all the way big fire, turn around the wok while frying, clockwise or anticlockwise, let the skin cooked until slightly burnt like skin of the char siew meat (fattening belly pork).
3. Then once it burnt, off fire, bring it to rinse thru tap water and drain dry set aside. Bring the claypot or stainless steel pot to the stove, to heat up. Add 2 tbsp of cooking oil, put in the dry chilli to fry, until the dry chilli expanded. Add in garlic, cinnamon then fry until oil slight turning to brownish, off fire, add in 3 tbsp light soya sauce, 2 tbsp sugar.
4. Turn on the fire, to cook the ingredient inside the claypot, do not stir fry the sugar, let it cook until dissolve, you see bubbles, put in the pork leg.. Add 2 bowls of water to stir in, add 2 tbsp of dark soya sauce, set to high fire to cook the pork leg. Cover the claypot, let it cook at high fire.
5. Once its boils, you see bubbles, add in 1 tbsp of black vinegar, then change to low fire to braise (note: vinegar is added to soften the pork leg meat) . After 15 mins, open the claypot, and stir the pork leg inside, turn to high fire let it cooked.
6. After 10 mins, turn to middle fire, then let it cook slowly, every 15 mins stir the pork leg. Total time to cook this pork leg aboutl 45 mins to 1 hr. After 45 mins to 1 hour, you can discover the pork leg is very tender and tasty. It is ready to be serve.
I tested and tried this recipe the next day after the lesson been taught, it was delicious, my family members enjoy it so much, will be cooking it another time again. I find it so simple, use cinnamon can make this pork trotter so tasty, trust me it isnt oily at all.