Winter Melon Lao Duck Soup

Name: Winter Melon Lao Duck Soup
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 0.5 Old duck; 750g Winter melon; Some Shimizu; Some salt

by Little Five's Food, Drink and Fun

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

2h

Serving

2

Three days into the kitchen, wash your hands and make soup”, from Wang Jian, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The few poems in the poem describe the kind of anxiety that is difficult for the new wife. But I stubbornly follow my understanding that washing hands should be used to make soup. It’s also a kind of happiness. Even if we don’t know how to cook, we can spend a little time making a pot of old fire soup for our family. So far, I still like to use a casserole and cook the soup over an open flame because I like the fireworks when I cook the soup. taste.
At the end of "The Second Season of China on the Tip of the Tongue: Family Biography", it tells the old fire soup in Guangdong, which includes a "lotus leaf and winter melon in the pot". I planned it early in the morning, and the family gathering tonight is about to decipher the soup. Unfortunately, no fresh lotus leaves can be found in the market today. But in fact, just using winter melon and old duck, after several hours of slow simmering, the soup is rich and sweet again. This is also one of the home-made soups in the Chaoshan area in summer, which can invigorate the spleen, dispel dampness, and dispel heat. "

Ingredients

0.5 Old Duck
750g Winter Melon
Some Shimizu
Some Salt

Winter Melon Lao Duck Soup

1. The ducks are cleaned, chopped into pieces, and cleaned.

2. Put the duck meat into the pot, add water that can submerge the duck meat, and bring to a boil on high heat.

3. Remove the duck meat and drain the water.

4. Take a casserole, add enough water (about 3 liters), bring to a boil over high heat; add the duck meat and boil again, reduce the heat to simmer for 2 hours.

5. Peel the winter melon and cut into small pieces.

6. Turn the duck soup of "Step 5" into high fire and add winter melon.

7. Bring to a boil again, turn to medium-low heat and cook for a while. When the winter melon is boiled a bit transparent, add salt to taste.

8. Turn off the heat and eat in a fashionable bowl.

Tips:
If it is boiled with fresh lotus leaves, wash the lotus leaves and cook the duck meat first. The function of lotus leaves is to clear heat and promote dampness.

This soup is used for family dinners in my family. The portion is quite large. Small families can reduce the amount of ingredients according to their discretion.