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Don’t Boil the Duck with Ginger and Cold Water: Add this, the duck will lose its odor, the meat becomes more flavorful.

Many people believe that boiling duck just requires a little ginger, cold water, and salt. However, this is not the correct way to boil duck.

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27 November, 2023

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Ingredients for boiled duck

1 duck weighing about 2kg

2 fresh ginger roots

1 dried onion

Rice vinegar

White wine

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How to make flavorful and delicious boiled duck

Step 1: Prepare the duck

When buying a live duck, you can ask the seller to perform the preparation process or do it yourself at home. After cutting off the giblets, immerse the duck in boiling water to remove the feathers. Check the pore holes on the duck’s body to detect and remove the black liquid, an odor-causing agent. Squeeze and rinse to remove unpleasant odors.

The oil gland often causes a fishy odor in boiled duck meat, so you should remove it completely. In particular, remove the dirty tongue from the duck’s beak.

After cleaning the feathers, open the duck’s abdomen to remove the innards. You can prepare the innards to boil with the duck meat or use them for dishes such as stir-fried duck gizzards with glass noodles, stir-fried duck gizzards with winged bean, stir-fried duck intestines with Chinese chives…

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Step 2: Remove the odor from the duck meat

To reduce the characteristic odor of duck meat, after removing the feathers and oil gland, you can use coarse salt to rub both the inside and outside of the duck, then rinse thoroughly. Rubbing some slices of ginger on the meat and rinsing again helps to make the meat more fragrant and eliminate any unpleasant smell.

If you want to proceed with this process more carefully, you can use white wine or ginger wine, or rice vinegar to wash the duck and then rinse it with water. This will ensure that the duck meat no longer has a fishy odor and becomes more delicious when boiled.

Step 3: Boil the duck

To make the duck meat tasty, the boiling method also plays an important role. Boil enough water to submerge the whole duck. Add a crushed ginger root, or a dried roasted onion, or a grilled ginger root to the water to enhance the aroma of the boiled duck.

Once the water is boiling, reduce the heat to a simmer and boil for about 20 – 30 minutes to evenly cook the duck meat. To check if the meat is cooked, you can use a skewer to pierce the duck’s thigh. If the juice that comes out is not red, then the duck meat is cooked. After boiling, remove the duck and let it cool for a while, then chop it into small pieces to enjoy.

Step 4: Chop the duck and arrange on a plate

With duck meat, it is best to chop it while it is still hot to keep the meat tender and more flavorful. Chop the duck into bite-sized pieces and arrange them on a plate for immediate enjoyment.