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Cow's trotters

Cow's trotters are offal containing bone and skin. When cooked, they are soft, chewy and gelatinous. Cooks boil or simmer them, use them in stews, and pair them with chickpeas.

  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens
  • Pork depends on the product

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Bone, skin
Texture
Chewy, gelatinous, soft
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Cow's trotters, cooked

Photo: MmaBaggio · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use cow's trotters

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer
  • Stew

Cooking with it

Cook for a long time or use a pressure cooker to soften the trotters and release gelatin into soup.

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture, cooked

  • Chewy
  • Gelatinous
  • Soft

Around the world

Where cow's trotters is cooked

4 dishes in the catalogue use cow's trotters. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list cow's trotters among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with cow's trotters

3 of the 4 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Lontong kikil

    Indonesia

  • Kikil satay

    Indonesia

  • Beef tendon curry

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include cow's trotters.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: cow's trotters in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
Depends on the product (depends on which animal the meat comes from)

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What cow's trotters is called

Names in 10 languages, from Wikidata.

  • French

    pied de bœuf

  • Arabic

    كوارع (إندونيسيا)

  • Japanese

    牛足

  • Korean

    쇠족 · 소발 · 소족 · 쇠다리

  • Indonesian

    Kaki sapi · kikil

  • Swahili

    Supu ya kongoro

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  • Esperanto

    bovkruraĵo

  • Ganda

    Mulokoni · ekigele kye nte

  • Javanese

    Sikil sapi

  • Slovenian

    goveja noga

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q12488531

Photos

Photo: MmaBaggio · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons