Duck meat boiled cool refreshing cooling eating not hot is loved by many people. With the recipe for boiled duck meat below, you will have an attractive dish that everyone will praise.
Ingredients for boiled duck meat
1 duck about 2kg
2 fresh ginger bulbs
1 dry onion
Rice vinegar
White wine
How to boil delicious and flavorful duck
Step 1: Prepare the duck
When buying live duck, you can ask the seller to prepare it for you or prepare it yourself at home. After cutting off the giblets, the duck will be dipped into boiling water to remove the feathers. You will see a black liquid at the hair follicles on the duck’s body, remember to squeeze it all out and rinse it clean as it makes the duck smell foul.
The hook is the main culprit causing the fishy smell of boiled duck meat, so you should completely remove the hook as it is both smelly and harmful to health. Another note is that you should remove the dirty tongue from the duck’s beak!
After cleaning the feathers, you gut the duck and remove all the entrails. You can clean the duck’s entrails, boil them together with the duck or cut them into small pieces to make dishes such as stir-fried duck liver with noodles, stir-fried duck with bitter melon, stir-fried duck with Chinese broccoli…
Step 2. Remove the fishy smell from the duck meat
This is an important step, although you have cleaned the feathers and removed the hook, the duck meat will still have a characteristic smell, if not processed it will have a slightly unpleasant smell when eaten.
You use salt to rub both inside and outside the duck, then rinse it off, then cut a few slices of ginger to rub on it and rinse it again, ginger has the effect of effectively removing the fishy smell of duck and making it more fragrant when boiled.
If you are more careful, you can use white wine or ginger wine, rice vinegar to wash the duck and then rinse it again with water, the duck will surely no longer have a foul smell.
Step 3. Boil the duck
The deliciousness of the duck meat depends largely on the ingredients and the way the duck is boiled. You bring a pot of water to a boil, enough water to submerge the whole duck, put in it 1 smashed ginger or 1 dry onion grilled, or 1 grilled ginger. These ingredients will give the boiled duck a fragrant and extremely attractive aroma.
When boiling the duck, you should not use high heat, when the water is simmering, reduce the heat to low, and boil for about 20 – 30 minutes for the duck to cook slowly.
Boil the duck for about 20 minutes, you take a skewer into the duck’s thigh, if you see clear, non-red water flowing out, the duck is cooked inside. Remove it, let it cool slightly, then chop it into small pieces and eat immediately.
Step 4. Chop the duck and place it on a plate
For duck meat, when freshly boiled, the meat is still hot, chopping it immediately will make it tender and delicious. In contrast, with chicken meat, you have to cool it down before chopping it). You chop the duck into pieces that are easy to eat and place them on a plate.
