How to make Zhou Black Duck

The production process of Zhou Black Duck: blanching → pickling → roasting → braising → soaking

1. Blanch. Wash the duck neck, duck paws and other raw materials several times (soak in cold water for about 40 minutes in summer, change the water more than 3 times, soak out the blood inside, put it in a basket to drain out the water, soak in warm water for more than 1 hour in winter). After thawing the duck intestines, put them into a dense basket, rub them separately with salt, and rinse them with clean water.

2. Pickle. Add all the ingredients into salt and dark soy sauce, mix well, and marinate for more than 12 hours. You can also add a little ginger and green onions during the pickling process.

3. Bake. The pickled products are baked. Dehydrate the ingredients, making the meat firm and dry.

4. Halogen. Use a large pot (bucket) with a diameter of 45 cm, fill 2/3 of the water, add chili pepper, Sichuan peppercorns, then add star anise, angelica, white cardamom, grass fruit, betel nut, xiangguo, cinnamon, red cardamom and galangal. Nutmeg, licorice, amomum villosum, cloves. Cover the pot and simmer over high heat for 2-3 hours. During the process of simmering the soup, do not frequently open the lid, otherwise the aroma will easily evaporate. Add salt, MSG, salad oil, rock sugar, white sugar, chicken essence and dark soy sauce. If you don’t like sweets, you can reduce the amount of sugar.

5. Bubble. After the soup is prepared, according to the processing time of the product, add the duck series raw materials and cook over high heat (for every 1 kilogram of duck series raw materials added, add 8 grams of white wine, 18 grams of salt, 10 grams each of MSG, chicken powder, and rock sugar) ).

After cooking, turn off the heat and simmer for 3 minutes (chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns are generally replaced every 2-3 times). The cooking time may vary depending on the texture and origin of the raw materials, and is subject to actual conditions. Remove the processed raw materials from the old soup and cool them. Put it into the cooled old soup and soak it in cold water for more than 30 minutes (add 10 grams each of Caishen oyster sauce, hoisin sauce, pork ribs sauce, and 5 grams of caramel coloring to each kilogram of old soup), then take it out.

Recipes and materials:

1. Seasonings:

Salad oil, rock sugar, white sugar, edible iodized salt, Fujian Pepper King pepper, high-quality Sichuan peppercorns, MSG, chicken essence, Haitian dark soy sauce (for marinating and coloring), Haitian soy sauce (for marinating and seasoning), rock sugar, white wine, Caishen oyster sauce, seafood sauce, pork ribs sauce, caramel coloring.

2. Season spices:

Chili pepper, Sichuan peppercorns (preferably seedless), star anise, angelica angelica, white cardamom, grass fruit, betel nut, xiangguo, cinnamon, red cardamom , 2 each of galangal, nutmeg, licorice, amomum villosum, and cloves.

3. Braised soup ingredients:

Duck neck, chili powder (two tablespoons), pepper powder (two tablespoons), Pi County bean paste, star anise, grass fruit, licorice , cloves, cinnamon, cumin, bay leaves, dried chili peppers (6 pieces), peppercorns (20 pieces), dark soy sauce (for color), light soy sauce (for flavor), oyster sauce, salt, sugar, corn oil, ginger slices , garlic slices, stock.

After preparing these ingredients, you also need to prepare the following utensils:

Stirring stick, bamboo basket (or plastic basket), colander (big eye, fine), Chopping board, kitchen knife, stainless steel vat (pot), tongs, oven or oven (the oven is a round hanging stove, the oven is a square electric oven, gas or coal can also be used), briquette stove (to save energy, you can also use a gas stove , natural gas furnace or electric furnace).

Extended information:

Zhou Hei Ya successfully obtained the exclusive right to register a trademark, which became a new starting point for the growth of Hubei Zhou Hei Ya Company. At the intellectual property press conference held by Hubei Zhouheiya Company on November 16, 2009, Zhang Xuebao, member of the Standing Committee of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee and deputy mayor, encouraged Zhou Fuyu: "Waterfowl have always been Wuhan's advantageous resource, and Wuhan has the most preferential waterfowl support in the country. Policy, I hope you will make the company stronger and bigger, and form Zhou Hei Ya products into an industrial chain to be in line with large companies such as KFC and McDonald's."

In this regard, Zhou Fuyu said emotionally that as a businessman who grew up in Wuhan. brand, Zhou Heiya will achieve new breakthroughs in building a well-known brand of Han products. Zhou Heiya will strive to become a national-level agricultural product processing enterprise in the next step, realize the social development of the enterprise, strive to export products to Southeast Asia within three years, and achieve the goal of being listed on the domestic A-share market in 2015.

On August 4, 2009, Wuhan Food Industrial Processing Zone officially signed a contract with Hubei Zhouheiya Company.

Accordingly, Hubei Zhouhei Duck Company will invest in the construction of a Zhouhei Duck food production base covering an area of ??80 acres in the processing zone with an investment of nearly 100 million yuan. It is expected that the annual processing capacity will reach more than 80,000 tons, and the number of whole ducks deeply processed will reach 20 million per year. , with an annual output value of more than 2 billion yuan and can provide employment for 4,500 people.

In 2010, with the expansion of the Hubei Zhouhei Ya Company, its original breeding base could no longer meet the demand for raw material supply. Hubei Zhouhei Duck Company plans to build a large-scale adult duck breeding base within Wuhan's "1+8 city circle" and form alliances with farmers from all over the country to provide farmers with duck seedlings, feed and technology based on the "company + farmer + base" business model. Support and guarantee the one-stop service of duck recycling, truly providing farmers with “zero risk and net benefit”.

At the same time, the company has accelerated the implementation of the national expansion strategy of adult duck breeding bases and has carried out substantial site selection work in Jiangxi, Hunan, Shandong, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces. By then, Zhou Heiya The alliance will benefit more than 100,000 farmers.

At the same time, Zhou Heiya’s anti-counterfeiting and rights protection work has also received further attention from industrial and commercial authorities at all levels. On January 29, 2013, the Hubei Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce issued the "Notice on Organizing the Investigation and Punishment of Unfair Competition Acts that Infringe the Legitimate Rights and Interests of Hubei Zhouheiya Food Co., Ltd." to the industrial and commercial authorities at all levels in the province, requiring that it be combined with the current food safety A special law enforcement action was carried out to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the braised products market and investigate and deal with infringements of Zhou Hei Ya’s intellectual property rights.

After years of accumulation of brand value, in the economic chain of the food industry and agricultural and sideline products industry, Zhou Hei Ya is no longer just a brand of cooked braised products with special taste, it has become a brand that "promotes the city and enriches farmers" Benefit engineering. Zhou Hei Ya Company believes that with the support of consumers and the protection of the law, although there are many "Li Gui", evil will not prevail against good. Zhou Hei Ya will surely win the final victory and become a well-known braised cooked food brand that goes further.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhou Heiya