Homemade Recipe for Sour Jujube Ginger Braised Qingtou Duck

  Sour ginger Ginger Stew Duck is a dish I must make every summer. Eating duck in the summer is particularly good, if you want to know how good, you can check online; I won't elaborate because there are too many benefits and it would take a long time to type. Especially when your appetite is not so good in summer, using sour ginger to season the dish will be very appetizing. Adding sour ginger makes the duck less greasy to eat and also better at removing fishy odors. I stew either half or a whole duck each time. The second meal will taste even more flavorful after stewing again; it's even better than when freshly cooked.(Alright, I admit that I am lazy again. The duck I stewed last month is only now being posted because the blog post was written earlier and saved in the drafts without sending. It's already mid-autumn now, but I'm too lazy to change the text and just posting it as is.）

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  Ingredients: half a duck sour ginger garlic ginger cooking wine sugar dark soy sauce oyster sauce yellow bean sauce chili

  Sour Ginger Stewed Duck recipe

  1. Clean and cut the duck into small pieces, blanch it, then drain and pat dry;

  2. Heat oil in a pot, add the duck meat and ginger chunks, stir-fry for about six minutes before adding minced garlic;3. Continue cooking until the duck meat and garlic are fragrant; add cooking wine, dark soy sauce, sugar, and yellow bean sauce; 4. Stir to combine the seasonings with the duck meat until fragrant, then add an appropriate amount of water and salt, cover the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to medium-low heat for stewing;

  5. When most of the water has evaporated, add chili peppers, stir-fry to extract more duck fat; if there's any water left, the duck won't be as fragrant.

  6. Add an appropriate amount of oyster sauce and turn off the heat before serving in a dish.

  Tips for Sour Ginger Stewed Duck

  1. This dish requires longer cooking time over low heat; stir frequently to avoid burning the bottom, as well as ensuring that the duck meat is more flavorful;

  2. After reducing the sauce, make sure to extract more duck fat; if there's any remaining water, the duck won't be so fragrant.

  3. For how much water to add when stewing and your control of it, I added a lot of water because this duck was raised for a longer period with tougher meat that requires more time to cook.

  4. Adding salt during the initial stew will make the dish even more flavorful compared to adding it after stewing.

  4. Adding salt when boiling water is better than adding it after it's done to make it more flavorful.