In traditional medicine, boiled duck meat is a cool and gentle dish for the liver, which is loved by many people in hot summer days. At the same time, it is also a nutritious dish that helps you change the taste on weekends.
Ingredients for boiled duck
1 duck weighing about 2kg
2 fresh ginger roots
1 dried onion
Rice vinegar
White wine
How to boil delicious and flavorful duck
Step 1: Prepare the duck
When buying live ducks, you can ask the seller to do the initial preparation or do it yourself at home. After cutting the intestines, the duck will be dipped in boiling water to remove the feathers. You will find black liquid in the hair follicles on the duck’s body, remember to squeeze it all out and wash it thoroughly because it makes the duck smelly.
Crest is the main cause of the strong fishy smell of boiled duck meat, so you should completely remove the crest because it is both smelly and harmful to health. Another note is that you should remove the dirty tongue inside the duck’s beak!
After cleaning the feathers, you open the duck’s belly and remove all the internal organs. You can clean the duck offal and boil it with the duck or dice it to make dishes such as duck liver stir-fried with glass noodles, stir-fried with rattan beans, stir-fried with morning glory…
Step 2: Remove the odor from duck meat
This is an important step, even though you have cleaned the feathers, removed the crest, the duck meat still has a distinct smell, if not processed, it will have a slightly unpleasant smell when eaten.
You rub salt all over and inside the duck, then wash it clean, then cut a few slices of ginger and rub them on the duck and wash it again, ginger helps remove the fishy smell of the duck effectively and makes 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 with water, the duck will definitely no longer have a fishy smell.
Step 3: Boil the duck
Delicious duck meat depends largely on the ingredients and the way the duck is boiled. You put a pot of water on the stove to boil enough water to immerse the whole duck, then add 1 crushed ginger or 1 dried grilled onion, or 1 roasted ginger. These ingredients will make the boiled duck dish have a fragrant and extremely attractive aroma.
When boiling the duck, do not use high heat, when the water is boiling, 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 and pierce it into the duck’s thigh, if you see the water flowing out without any red color, the duck is cooked. Take it out, let it cool a bit, then chop it into small pieces and enjoy immediately.
Step 4: Chop the duck and place it on a plate
For duck meat, when it is freshly boiled, the duck is still hot, if you chop the meat right away, it will be soft and taste better, unlike chicken meat which needs to be cooled before chopping). You chop it