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Super Chef Advice: Don’t just boil duck with cold water and ginger, add one new ingredient for perfection

Duck meat is a familiar dish for many households. However, to prepare a delicious boiled duck dish, a specific recipe is required.

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9 December, 2023

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Ingredients for boiled duck dish

1 duck, about 2kg

2 fresh ginger roots

1 dried onion

Rice vinegar

White wine

How to make delicious boiled duck

Step 1: Prepare the duck

When you buy a live duck, you can ask the seller to prepare it for you or you can do it yourself. The duck after being cleaned will be dipped into boiling water to remove all the feathers. You will notice that the duck has a black-colored liquid in its pores, make sure to squeeze it all out and rinse it thoroughly because it causes the duck to have a foul smell.

The oil gland is the main culprit behind the fishy smell of boiled duck meat, so you should remove the oil gland completely because it is both smelly and not good for your health. Another note is that you should also remove the dirty tongue inside the duck’s bill!

After cleaning the feathers, you will gut the duck and remove all the internal organs. You can either clean the duck’s organs and boil them with the duck or dice them to make dishes such as stir-fried duck giblets with glass noodles, stir-fried duck giblets with green bean sprouts, stir-fried duck giblets with Chinese chives…

Step 2: Eliminate the fishy smell from the duck meat

This is an important step, even though you have cleaned the feathers and removed the oil gland, the duck meat will still have its distinctive smell, which can be unpleasant to eat without proper preparation.

You can use coarse salt to rub both the inside and outside of the duck, then rinse it well. After that, rub a few slices of ginger on it and rinse it again, ginger has the effect of effectively eliminating the fishy smell of the 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 off with water, ensuring that the duck will no longer have a fishy smell.

Step 3: Boil the duck

The taste of boiled duck depends largely on the ingredients and the boiling method. You bring a pot of water to a boil, with enough water to completely submerge the duck, add to it 1 ginger root crushed, or 1 dried onion grilled, or 1 roasted ginger root. These ingredients will give the boiled duck a fragrant and irresistible aroma.

When boiling the duck, you should not use high heat, once the water is simmering, reduce the heat, and boil for about 20-30 minutes for the duck to cook slowly.

Boil the duck for about 20 minutes, then take a skewer and pierce it into the duck’s thigh, if the water that comes out is not red, the duck is cooked inside. Remove it, let it cool slightly, then chop it into small pieces and eat it right away.

Step 4: Chop the duck and arrange it on a plate

With duck meat, when it is freshly boiled, the duck is still hot, if you chop the meat immediately, it will be tender and taste better, unlike chicken meat which needs to cool down before being chopped). Chop the duck into bite-sized pieces and arrange them on a plate.