The invention discloses a pickling method of hot and sour chicken feet which are produced from chicken feet, cassia bark, star anise, onion, ginger, vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, garlic bulb and pickled chilli. The pickling method comprises the following steps of: 1, cleaning the chicken feet, soaking for 4h with water, changing water once every two hours; 2, adding water to just cover the chicken feet, boiling water in a pot, placing the chicken feet, the star anise, the cassis bark, the onion and the ginger, continuously boiling for 8min after the water is boiled, fishing the chicken feet out and cleaning, placing in a container capable of enabling the water to fall, and then placing the container below a faucet, washing for 30min with water in the faucet with small flow, fishing out, and airing to remove surface colloid so as to avoid being turbid during soaking; and 3, pouring the soy sauce, the sugar, the vinegar, the garlic bulb and the pickled chilli in the container, uniformly mixing, and placing the aired chicken feet in the container for being soaked for 60min so as to be eaten.