Zhijiang Duck

Overview

I traveled to Hunan with my best friend and ate this Zhijiang Duck dish and couldn’t forget it after I got home, so I tried making it myself and it tasted pretty good (⊙o⊙)!

Tags

• hot dishes
• hunan cuisine
• beer
• chicken powder
• chili pepper segments
• duck
• garlic cloves
• hot pepper
• old soy sauce
• pork belly
• star anise
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• ginger
• green onions
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the duck and set aside

   

2. 2 Chop into pieces and prepare stir-fry ingredients

   

3. 3 Cut the pork belly into small pieces and set aside (you should use fresh pork belly. If you don’t have it at home, I will use the twice-cooked pork belly I usually prepare)

   

4. 4 Heat the oil in a pan and stir-fry the star anise, ginger slices, peppercorns, duck head and duck feet

   

5. 5 Add duck meat and stir-fry

   

6. 6 Stir-fry the duck meat until the skin is slightly browned, then stir-fry the pork belly

   

7. 7 Add the chili segments and garlic cloves and stir-fry

   

8. 8 Add two teaspoons of dark soy sauce for coloring

   

9. 9 Pour two bottles of beer

   

10. 10 Bring to a boil, then reduce to medium heat and cook for about forty minutes

    

11. 11 Cut the peppers with a diagonal knife and tie the shallots into knots

    

12. 12 When the duck meat is cooked, add hot peppers and green onions

    

13. 13 Add a teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of chicken powder to taste

    

14. 14 Stir fry for two minutes and it’s ready