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Make Duck Meat Delicious and Tender by Adding This Ingredient, No More Unpleasant Smell

With this special duck boiling technique, your dish will not only be free from the characteristic smell but also tender and sweet, bringing you a delightful and nutritious dining experience.

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7 February, 2024

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Aside from ingredients such as chicken, beef, fish… duck meat is also a delicious and nutritious food. With this ingredient, you can create many delicious dishes such as grilled duck with mac mat leaves, braised duck with sour soup, duck simmered with lemongrass, spicy stir-fried duck… But the simplest and most loved dish is still boiled duck.

Although easy to eat and cook, duck meat has a distinctive smell that not everyone likes. To avoid affecting the taste of the dishes, you need to handle it carefully and can use some spices such as ginger, salt, vinegar, lemon or rice wine… to eliminate this smell.

Lemon

Lemon or vinegar is a common ingredient in the kitchen and you can use them to remove the gamey smell from duck meat. When used, the acid in lemon juice helps to remove the odor and make the duck meat more tender and delicious.

To do this, you should slice the lemon thinly and rub it on the surface of the duck meat. Do this for about 15 minutes and then rinse the meat with clean water before boiling. In addition, you can mix lemon juice with salt, brine, and soak the duck for about 30 minutes to remove excess blood. Thanks to that, your dish will be more delicious.

Ginger

Using fresh ginger to eliminate the smell of duck meat is one of the simple and popular methods. First, you need to wash the duck thoroughly and add a few crushed ginger slices, a little rice wine, and some white salt.

Next, use your hands to rub the ingredients from the outside to the inside and marinate for about 30 minutes. After rinsing with clean water, you can boil them with a fresh ginger slice to overpower the smell and flavor of the ingredients.

How to cook delicious boiled duck

1. Processing ingredients

– Duck: 1, weighing about 1.5 to 2kg

– Scallion

– Ginger: 5 slices

– Star anise: 1

– Spices: 2 teaspoons of five-spice powder, 2 teaspoons of black pepper, 2 tablespoons of rice wine, salt

2. How to process

Step 1: Prepare the ingredients

– After buying the duck, wash it with a little salt and lemon juice. Then use a soft paper towel to absorb all the water on the surface.

– Peel the ginger, wash it clean, and slice it thinly.

Step 2: Marinate the duck

– Put the duck in a large dish, then add 2 teaspoons of five-spice powder, a little salt, 1 tablespoon of chicken bouillon powder, and 2 teaspoons of ground black pepper, then rub the duck well with your hands to make it absorb the spices.

– Next, wrap the duck tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 8 hours.

Step 3: Boil the duck

– Place a pot of water on the stove, add a little scallion, 2 tablespoons of rice wine, and a few ginger slices, then bring to a boil.

– Then add the marinated duck to the boiling water and cook until it boils for the second time, then add a little salt and reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer for about 20 minutes.

– Add star anise to the pot of boiling water to enhance the flavor of the duck meat and use a spoon to skim off any foam. Normally, a duck weighing about 1.5 to 2 kg will take about 20 to 25 minutes to cook tender.

To make sure the duck is cooked, you can use a skewer to gently pierce the meat. If no red juice comes out when you remove the skewer, it means the duck is cooked. You can take the duck out on a plate to cool, and then cut it into bite-sized pieces.