Braised Duck with Winter Melon

Overview

Duck meat has high nutritional value and its protein content is much higher than that of livestock meat. The fatty acids in duck meat are mainly unsaturated fatty acids and low-carbon saturated fatty acids, and the amount of saturated fatty acids is significantly less than that of pork and mutton. It is especially suitable for people who are worried that eating too much saturated fatty acids will cause atherosclerosis. The fat in duck meat is different from butter or lard. The ratio of saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, and polyunsaturated fatty acids is close to the ideal value. Its chemical composition is similar to olive oil. It has the effect of lowering cholesterol and is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Duck meat is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and salty. It belongs to the spleen, stomach, lungs, and kidneys. It can greatly replenish deficiency and fatigue, nourish the yin of the five internal organs, clear away the heat of deficiency and fatigue, nourish blood and promote water, nourish the stomach and promote fluid production, relieve cough and self-consciousness, clear away heat and strengthen the spleen, and treat weakness and edema.

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• old man
• dinner with friends
• winter recipes
• lunch
• whitening
• cooking wine
• dried chili pepper
• duck leg
• ginger
• jujube
• winter melon
• wolfberry
• salt
• vegetable oil

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Ingredients 1: duck leg, winter melon, ginger, dried chili.

   

2. 2 Condiments: vegetable oil, cooking wine, salt, dates, wolfberry.

   

3. 3 Slice ginger.

   

4. 4 Remove the flesh from the winter melon, wash and cut into pieces, wash and cut the duck into pieces;

   

5. 5 Pour an appropriate amount of vegetable oil into the pot. When the oil is 60% hot, add ginger slices and dried chili peppers (adding ginger slices and chili peppers when cooking duck can remove the fishy smell very well).

   

6. 6 When the chili and ginger flavor develops, add duck meat and add appropriate amount of cooking wine and stir-fry.

   

7. 7 Add warm water to cover the duck meat, cover the pot and cook for 40 minutes.

   

8. 8 When the duck meat is almost cooked, add the winter melon, add a few jujubes and continue to simmer until the winter melon is cooked.

   

9. 9 Add appropriate amount of wolfberry 5 minutes before serving.

   

10. 10 Add appropriate amount of salt to taste when serving.