Family Recipe 52 - Spicy & Sour Boneless Chicken Feet

Ingredients: Chicken feet, cucumber, cilantro, ginger, garlic, chili, lemon, salt, sugar, soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil Instructions: 1. Remove the nails from the chicken feet, rub with salt, then rinse with clean water. Put them in cold water with rice wine and ginger slices. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to medium heat and cook for 6-8 minutes without a lid. Remove and soak in ice water for 10 minutes. Make a cut with a small knife and remove the bones using the nail area. 2. Smash the cucumber with the side of a knife and cut into sections. Salt it to remove moisture. Mince the garlic, slice the chili into rings, and chop the cilantro. 3. Squeeze lemon juice and mix with salt, sugar, soy sauce, water, and sesame oil to make the sauce. 4. Combine the cucumber, chicken feet, and sauce. Mix well, marinate evenly, refrigerate, and let it sit overnight before serving. Just a heads-up, deboning chicken feet is quite tedious. It took me 90 minutes from boiling to finishing the deboning for 23 chicken feet. Pre-deboned chicken feet are mostly sold in bulk for commercial use online, so you'll have to do it slowly yourself. Please consider this carefully. This recipe, apart from the chicken feet, is the same as the previous Spicy & Sour Enoki Mushrooms, just with a different main ingredient. If you have experience, it's not difficult (except for the deboning part).