Boneless Chicken Feet

Ingredients

• Chicken feet
• Ginger
• Cooking wine
• Scallion
• Garlic
• Chili peppers
• Onion
• Light soy sauce
• Oyster sauce
• Black vinegar (strong/brown vinegar recommended)
• Sugar
• Salt
• Sichuan peppercorn oil
• Mint / Coriander
• Lemon

Steps

1. ### Chicken Feet Processing
2. Cut off the tips of the nails on the chicken feet with scissors / knife, **including the meat and bone underneath, until there is not a single nail left**.
3. Wash them thoroughly and set aside.
4. Put the `chicken feet` into a large pot to remove the fishy smell.
5. Add `scallion`, `cooking wine`, and `ginger`.
6. Add water to submerge the `chicken feet`.
7. Boil over high heat. **You can skim off the scum floating to the top during the process**.
8. Once the water boils (**100°C, boiling state**), wait for 10 minutes.
9. Turn off the heat, remove them, drain the water, wash again, and place them in a basin.
10. ### Bone Removal
11. This step can be skipped. It takes approximately 2 hours.
12. Place the chicken feet in the refrigerator's **freezer section** for 20 minutes.
13. Take them out in batches of **10 at a time** sequentially (not from the frozen layer) to debone.
14. Start from the front end of the hand (the toes), use a knife to slit every toe **all the way to the back**.
15. Then, use a knife to split the skin from the back towards the entire arm.
16. Bend every finger joint. **Do it until you hear the clicking sound released by the joint**.
17. Hold the very front of the finger's end and push it inwards; it's the same for every finger, first push to the middle of the palm area.
18. Once the skin of every toe separates, push from the palm towards the arm part until the entire piece comes off.
19. Place in a bowl and set aside.
20. ### Prepare Marinade
21. Dice the `chili peppers` into uniform small pieces.
22. Chop `garlic`, `onion`, and `mint/coriander` finely.
23. Cut the `lemon` in half and squeeze the lemon juice into the container holding the chicken feet.
24. Pour all seasonings into the container holding the chicken feet. Also add the `chili peppers`, `garlic`, `onion`, and `mint/coriander`.
25. Mix thoroughly with your hands.
26. Refrigerate overnight (6 hours).
27. After marinating, place everything into the prepared chicken feet.