Learn how to make delicious grilled duck with honey leaves as delicious as outside

If you are too bored with the usual fried foods, try changing your password with the simple and delicious grilled duck with honey leaves. The leaves are also called bile leaves. The dish has a characteristic scent of magnolia leaves combined with chewy, soft duck meat that will make you eat forever. Today, Bach Khoa XANH will learn with you how to make delicious grilled duckweed leaves just like outside the restaurant.

Prepare
15 Minutes Processing
90 Minutes For
6 people

Ingredients for making grilled duck with honey leaves

• 1 duck (2kg)
• 20g tapioca flour
• Macadamia leaves, dried red onion, garlic, chili, ginger, galangal, lemongrass, lemon
• Spices: Sugar, salt, pepper, fish sauce, ground soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey, seasoning, monosodium glutamate
• Utensils: Bamboo stick, brazier, spoon, cup, plate, pan

Good tip
How to choose to buy ducks:
– You choose to buy ducks of medium size, round breast, neck skin with thick belly, 2 wings can be crossed. In addition, you need to see the bottom of the duck’s wings, do not buy the ones with red, black spots under the wings, these are ducks that have been pumped or injected with drugs.

Where to buy honeysuckle leaves?
– You can buy fresh magnolia leaves at spice stores, food stores or bonsai stores. In addition, you can also buy dried magnolia leaves at online stores.

How to make grilled duck with honey leaves

Step 1Process materials

After the duck has been cut, plucked and washed, you make a small hole in the bottom of the duck’s belly and take out all the parts inside the duck’s belly.

Duck processing

You take 1 galangal and 2 lemongrass , wash and cut into small pieces. Chili you need 2, washed and thinly sliced .
Macadamia leaves, you need about 30 to 40 leaves , washed. You take half of the leaves and cut them into pieces, the rest are kept separate, will be used in the marinade step.

Next, you need 2 dried onions and 6 garlic cloves, remove the skin, chop it, and divide it into 2 equal parts . Ginger you need ¼ root, washed , peeled and chopped. Lemon you need 1 fruit, squeeze the juice.

Chop galangal, ginger, lemongrass and magnolia leaves

Step 2Make seasoning for duck meat

First, you put 100g of chopped galangal root in a mortar and pound it . After that, you in turn add lemongrass, ginger, molasses leaves and ½ of the chopped dried onions and garlic into the mortar , pound and mix together.

Then, you add tbsp of ground pepper, 1.5 tbsp of monosodium glutamate, 1.5 tbsp of seasoning, 3 tbsp of fish sauce, 1 tbsp of oyster sauce and 1 tbsp of honey. mix the spices together.

Puree the ingredients, add seasoning and mix well

Step 3Marinated duck

First of all, you put on food gloves and take a little spice to apply evenly on the outside of the duck, just apply and massage to absorb evenly. After marinating the outside, you put the rest of the seasoning into the duck’s belly, rub it all over the inside of the duck’s belly. Finally, you put the rest of the leaves into the duck’s belly.

After applying all the spices, you use a steel wire to tie the legs, wings and neck of the duck, fix it tightly. With the duck belly, you use a steel wire to pierce it and sew it closed so that the spices do not spill when baking. Finally, you put the duck in the refrigerator to marinate for 1.5 to 2 hours.

Marinated duck, sewn with steel wire and bamboo skewers along the duck body

Step 4Roast duck

After the duck has marinated for enough time, you use a bamboo stick to skewer along the duck body and start grilling on a charcoal stove. You bake for about 60 to 70 minutes , roasting and roasting the duck to cook evenly.

Note
– You should let the charcoal burn red and then grill , to avoid the smell of smoke. Grill the duck at a high height above the coals, take only the hot part, do not let the big fire touch the duck , so that the meat is cooked evenly inside and out.
– When the leaves are stuck on the outside of the duck , you should use a brush to brush off the leaves , avoiding the leaves from burning into black spots on the duck’s skin.
– Roasting time can range from 45 to 90 minutes, depending on the size of the duck.

When the roasting time is enough, the duck meat is cooked evenly, lower the duck a little closer to the coals. Then, you use a brush to brush honey and cooking oil all over the duck skin , continue to bake for 10 minutes until the duck is golden brown. After the duck is done baking, take it out of the kitchen and wait for it to cool down.

Roast the duck until it’s cooked through

Step 5Make dipping sauce

First, you put in a clean cup 4 tablespoons of water, 1.5 tablespoons of tapioca starch , stir well.
Then, in another bowl, you add 2 tablespoons of ground soy sauce, 3 tablespoons of water , pickle and stir until the soy sauce dissolves. Add ⅓ tbsp of salt, ⅓ tbsp of sugar , stir until the mixture is completely dissolved.

You put the remaining dried onion and minced garlic in the mortar , pounding. Then, put the pan on the stove, add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil and sauté the onion and garlic. You in turn add the ground soy sauce and tapioca starch mixed above , and cook while stirring.

When the mixture boils and thickens slightly, add the chopped chili , stir gently and turn off the heat. Finally, you scoop the dipping sauce into a cup, wait for it to cool, add lemon juice and a little ground pepper to complete.

Note: Do not add lemon juice while the sauce is still hot, it will be bitter.

Special dipping sauce makes grilled duck even more delicious

Finished product

Roast duck and dipping sauce are ready, now you just need to cut off the wire, remove the bile leaves in the duck’s belly and cut it into bite-sized pieces and you can enjoy it. You can arrange vegetables around the meat plate and sprinkle some sesame on top to make the dish even more attractive.

Grilled duck is golden crispy outside, soft inside, fragrant with the characteristic scent of magnolia leaves. When eating, each piece of meat is tender, sweet, rich in spices, combined with homemade dipping sauce to make the dish more round and delicious.

Grilled duck with honey leaves

So, the delicious, rustic, and bold grilled duck dish is complete. The wonderful, homely flavor of this dish will surely make the whole family love it. Don’t wait any longer, just make a plate for your home meal. BANH KHANH wishes you success.

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