What is delicious when stewed with duck meat?

1. Ingredients preparation

Main ingredients: half old duck, 300g fresh bamboo shoots

Supplementary ingredients: ginger cubes, green onions

Seasoning: 2 spoons of cooking oil, 2 spoons of cooking wine, appropriate amount of chicken essence

2. Ingredients processing

1. For ducks, of course, choose old ducks that are more than one year old, which are very nourishing and health-preserving. Generally, go to the fresh market to buy ducks, which are relatively fresh and easy to identify the age of ducks; ducks that have been slaughtered can easily be bought in 30 days.

2. When the old duck was purchased, the feathers and internal organs had already been cleaned. We only needed to chop the old duck into pieces; there were few people in the family, so I only used half of the duck.

3. Buy some fresh bamboo shoots instead of dried or soaked bamboo shoots.

4. Pour the duck, ginger pieces, and cooking wine into the pot, blanch them until they change color, take them out and clean them. This step of blanching is just to remove the fishy smell of the duck.

5. It is best to blanch fresh bamboo shoots and remove them raw.

3. Detailed explanation of the method

1. We put the blanched bamboo shoots and duck into the stew pot, add water to cover the duck, ginger cubes, and green onions. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over medium heat for about 50 minutes.

2. Let’s simmer for about thirty minutes, uncover the lid, add two tablespoons of cooking oil, taste the saltiness, and then continue to simmer with the lid on;

3 . After simmering for 50 minutes, add an appropriate amount of chicken essence to adjust the flavor before serving.

4. Summary of cooking tips

Be sure to buy ducks that are more than one year old and kill them freshly. The stewed ducks will have richer nutritional value and are more effective in tonic.

Blanching is to remove the fishy smell and blood.

You need to buy fresh bamboo shoots. If you can’t buy fresh ones, you can also buy dried bamboo shoots and stew them whole together.

Answers to questions about Laoya Soup

1. Should we use male duck or female duck for Laoya soup?

Answer: When middle-aged or elderly people take supplements, they generally choose male ducks; if there is a tuft of feathers on the tail of a male duck, if you touch the duck's anus with your index finger and you feel a granular protrusion, it is a male duck. The female duck is suitable for women and sick people. The soup and taste are much worse than that of the male duck. The tail feathers of the female duck are neat and there is no protrusion under the anus.

2. Can pregnant women have this kind of old duck soup?

Answer: Pregnant women should try not to drink this kind of old duck soup. If the body is too weak or the spleen and stomach are too weak, try not to drink it to avoid gastrointestinal upset and adverse effects on health.