Refreshing Duck Strips
A Chinese-style dish of refreshing duck strips made with duck legs, peanut butter, sesame paste, crushed peanuts, and toasted sesame seeds.
Ingredients
duck legs
2
peanut butter
1 tsp
sesame paste
1 tsp
crushed peanuts
50 g
roasted sesame seeds
1 tsp
Instructions
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Step 1
Main ingredient: 2 duck legs. Secondary ingredients: 50 g crushed peanuts, 1 tsp roasted white sesame seeds. Seasonings: 2 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp vinegar, 1 tsp sugar, 2 tsp chili oil, 15 g minced garlic, 10 g minced scallion, 5 g minced ginger, 1/2 tsp Sichuan pepper powder, a pinch of MSG, 1 tsp peanut butter, 1 tsp sesame paste.
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Step 2
Debone the duck legs. Deboning the duck legs makes the finished product cut more neatly and look better, and is also more convenient for children to eat. Duck leg bones are harder than chicken leg bones. After boiling, they cannot be chopped neatly and the skin tends to tear open with the meat scattering, which is unattractive and inconvenient to eat. Therefore, the author chose to debone them.
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Step 3
Rinse the deboned duck legs, place them in a pot of cold water, add scallion segments and ginger slices to the pot, and add a small handful of Sichuan peppercorns if available. Sichuan peppercorns effectively remove the gamey smell from the duck meat. The duck legs must be placed in cold water so that more blood can be drawn out and the gamey smell can be removed.
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Step 4
After the water comes to a boil, skim off the foam, cook uncovered for a few minutes to let the gamey smell dissipate, then cover the lid, turn to low heat, and simmer for about 20 minutes.
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Step 5
Remove the cooked duck legs and quickly place them in cold water to cool. In summer, chill them in cold water; in winter, this step can be skipped.
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Step 6
While the duck is cooling, prepare a bowl of sauce. Here are all the sauce ingredients: 1 tsp peanut butter, 1 tsp sesame paste, 2 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp vinegar, 1 tsp sugar, 2 tsp chili oil, 15 g minced garlic, 10 g minced scallion, 5 g minced ginger, 1/2 tsp Sichuan pepper powder, a pinch of MSG, 50 g crushed peanuts, 1 tsp roasted white sesame seeds. These seasonings are enough for 3-4 duck legs.
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Step 7
Take a bowl, add the sesame paste and peanut butter, then add light soy sauce, aged vinegar, Sichuan pepper powder, sugar, MSG, and salt in sequence, and stir until well combined.
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Step 8
Then add the minced garlic, minced scallion, and minced ginger, and stir well again to set aside.
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Step 9
Remove the cooled duck legs, drain off the water, and cut them into strips.
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Step 10
Arrange on a plate. Drizzle with the prepared peanut butter sauce, drizzle with chili oil, sprinkle with crushed peanuts and roasted sesame seeds, and mix well when eating.
