The Eight Treasures Gourd Duck is shaped like a gourd and is cooked with glutinous rice, gravy, celandine, asparagus, shiitake mushrooms, golden hooks, and diced ham as the auxiliary ingredients and gets its name.?

Ingredients:?

1 tender duck, glutinous rice, diced Jinhua ham, diced shiitake mushrooms, peas, chestnuts, fresh lotus seeds, ginkgo nuts, red dates, ginger, star anise, each appropriate amount?

Production method:?

1, with a knife, carefully remove the duck skeleton, leg bones, wing bones and neck bones, do not poke through the skin, forming an empty capsule, inside and outside the application of appropriate amount of cooking wine and salt to taste?

2, eight treasure material fried and glutinous rice mix, add appropriate amount of soy sauce and chicken seasoning?

3, stuffing stuffing into the duck stomach filled to the brim, sewing the opening?

4, duck neck knot, to prevent the filling from leaking, in the wings under the body of one-third of the watercress tie "gourd-shaped", with the old soy sauce coated duck body color?

5, with five or six percent of the heat of the oil to the skin deep-fried to golden brown, pick up and drain the oil?

6, burst the ginger, with dark soy sauce, sugar, chicken essence and water to cook the star anise flavor, as the juice?

7, the sauce poured on the duck, steamed for about an hour removed to plate?

8, the original juice of the steamed duck to add starch water thickening poured on the eight duck can be?

Characteristics: golden color, outside the crisp inner steak, fresh and tasty, wine and rice are suitable. Different natural conditions and folk customs form the characteristics of Hui cuisine local dishes, good at burning stew, like to use fire? The leg flavor, icing sugar to refresh, the original pot on the table, the original flavor and aroma.

Hui Cai cooking is characterized by "triple" (heavy oil, heavy color, heavy fire).

The basic characteristics of Anhui cuisine:?

One, the local materials, rigorous selection of materials, the four seasons, giving full play to the advantages of Anhui's abundance of mountain treasures and wild game, such as bamboo shoots are not political mountains do not use, chickens are not the year of the baby chickens do not take the turtle must be used in the horseshoe big for the expensive, the fish to the color of the white and fresh for the preferred.

Second, the fire is unique, its uniqueness lies in the burning, stewing, steaming, some first fried after steaming, some first stewed after frying, there are smoked in the drenching, fire burning paint, halfway to the simmering fire, etc., so that the dishes taste more delicious, such as Hui burned fish burned with high fire, tender meat and flavor, the five-minute dish can be called one of the best. The use of different fire control technology, is the formation of Hui cuisine, crisp, fragrant, fresh unique style of basic means.

Third, cooking techniques, Hui cuisine to burn, stew, smoke, steam and famous, the production of dishes with different characteristics. Burning, pay attention to the soft and delicious, aftertaste timeless; stew, the requirements of soup mellow taste fresh, cooked through the tender; smoked, focusing on the color and luster of bright, fragrant; steam, to achieve the original flavor, crisp and pleasant, a dish.

Four, pay attention to dietary supplements, food for healing, medicine and food, food for health, in order to maintain the flavor characteristics at the same time, pay close attention to the nourishing nutritional value of the dishes, its cooking techniques are mostly used for burning, stewing, so that the dishes to achieve a soft and tasty, ripe through the crispy, Huizhou cuisine commonly used whole chicken, whole turtle cooking juice soup, with yam stewed chicken, etc.

What is the most important thing is that the food is not only good for the health of the people, it is also a great source of food and nutrition.

Huizhou cuisine is mainly composed of three local flavors, namely, southern Anhui, along the river and along the Huaihuai River. Hui Cuisine is an ancient cuisine with a long history, and is a strange flower in the garden of China's diet.?

Famous dishes: "Fu Li Ji Roasted Chicken", "Ham Stewed Whip Bamboo Shoots", "Snow Winter Roasted Mountain Chicken", "Gourd Duck ", "Pickled Fresh Gui Fish", "Ham Stewed Turtle", "Mao Feng Smoked Yellowtail?" etc.