Tips for choosing delicious duck meat

Duck meat is not only nutritious but can also be processed into many delicious dishes such as: Duck cooked with pineapple, duck stewed with lotus seeds, duck vermicelli with bamboo shoots, or duck stewed with star fruit... However, to have delicious duck meat for dishes, you need to note:

- When going to the market, it is best to buy a live duck. If you do not know how to butcher it or are shy, you can ask the seller to do it on the spot. Eating "fresh" duck meat is always more fragrant and delicious than pre-cooked and old duck. To choose a good live duck, first choose a healthy one, with two wings pressed close to the body, smooth feathers, and bright eyes. If the duck has two drooping wings, ruffled feathers, a hard crop... it is a sick duck, do not buy it.

- Besides, you also need to pay attention to choose ducks with the tips of the two wings just enough to cross each other, fat duck body, round breast, tail, thick neck and belly skin, fully grown feathers. You should not choose young ducks because they are not delicious to eat, and take a lot of time to pluck the down feathers. Normally, young ducks have big and soft beaks, while old ducks have small, hard beaks. If the duck has laid many eggs, the belly will look sagging.

- In particular, you should choose male ducks, because they are thicker and meatier than female ducks.

- When buying a pre-cooked duck, you should choose one with smooth, oily skin and no strange smell. To increase profits, many sellers often inject water into duck meat to increase its weight. Therefore, when buying a pre-cooked duck, you need to check carefully. If the duck is injected with water, when pressed with your hand, it will feel slippery, the breast and thighs of the duck will be mushy and not firm.

Along with chicken, fish... duck meat is classified in the "white meat" group, this is a food group with much lower saturated fat and cholesterol than "red meat". In addition, nutritional analysis also shows that duck meat is a very suitable food for children, providing many nutrients and being easy to absorb.

According to PNVN