How to cook winter melon with skin and chicken

Winter melon and chicken is one of my favorite dishes. It is very delicious. You can make it when you have nothing to do.

Ingredients for stewed chicken with skin and winter melon

300g old duck, 500g winter melon, a little coix seed

5 grams of salt, 3 grams of light soy sauce, 5 grams of white pepper, 10 grams of rice wine, and 1 large piece of ginger.

Method/steps of stewing old chicken with winter melon skin

Buy the old duck, wash it, chop it into large pieces, add 2 grams of salt, light soy sauce, white pepper powder, and rice wine and marinate for 30 minutes.

Put the marinated duck into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, place it on the stove, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer for 5 minutes.

After the fire boiled for about 5 minutes, the blood foam in the duck

It will float on the soup surface. Use chopsticks or a soup sieve to remove all the blood foam.

Clean it up.

At this time, use a knife to flatten the ginger, put it into the soup, continue to boil for 5 minutes, pour in the washed barley, turn to low heat and simmer for 1 hour. Be sure to add more ginger, not only for the good effect of removing fishy smell, but also to neutralize the coolness of duck and winter melon.

Wash the winter melon, especially the skin, and cut it into pieces of appropriate size for later use.

After the duck soup is cooked, pour in the winter melon cubes and boil for 10 minutes. Add salt to taste before serving.

Precautions

It is best to use old ducks for making duck soup. Never use foreign ducks. Foreign ducks are fatter and more suitable for stir-frying or braising. They are fishy and very greasy when used to make soup.

When cleaning the duck, the blood clots and fascia in the duck's abdominal cavity must be thoroughly removed, and the scattered duck feathers on the duck's wings and legs must be plucked out. This is the basic element to ensure that the duck soup is not fishy.

​Duck is cool in nature. When making soup, remember to use high-proof liquor, Sanhua liquor, etc., instead of cooking wine. High-proof liquor can better enhance the flavor of the duck soup.