How to marinate He Xiang duck? Tutorial on marinating He Xiang duck

Lotus-flavored duck is a famous local specialty dish. It has a strong lotus fragrance, rich nutrition, and the duck meat is fat but not greasy. It is especially delicious. So how should this lotus-flavored duck be marinated when it is made? How to make it delicious? The following editor will specifically talk about these issues.

How to marinate lotus-flavored duck

1. Ingredients for marinated lotus duck

When marinating lotus-flavored duck, you need to prepare half a duck, a lotus leaf, and appropriate amounts of salt, soy sauce, green onions, ginger, cooking wine, and pepper. In addition, you also need to prepare appropriate amounts of cooking oil and pickled plums.

2. Steps for marinating lotus-flavored duck

Chop the prepared duck into pieces, then blanch it in boiling water, take it out and drain the water, add cooking wine, pepper, soy sauce and salt, mix well and marinate. The marinating time should be between two and three hours.

3. How to cook lotus-flavored duck

After marinating the lotus duck, heat oil in a wok, add scallions and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant, then add the duck pieces into the wok and stir-fry. After five minutes, add the washed pickled mustard greens into the wok, stir-fry for a while, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat and then turn down the heat for half an hour, lay out the lotus leaves, take out the duck pieces and place them in the lotus leaves, wrap them, then steam them in a steamer for fifteen minutes. Take them out and place them in a pot, and the lotus duck is ready to eat.

4. Precautions for pickling lotus-flavored duck

When marinating lotus-flavored duck, you must blanch it in water before marinating it, otherwise the marinated seasoning will be lost in large quantities during the blanching process. The marinating time cannot be too short, otherwise the duck meat will not be well flavored and the taste of the lotus-flavored duck will not be very good after it is cooked.