How to Make Delicious Duck Blood Pudding: Simple, Safe, and Set Like Jelly

Duck blood pudding is a raw delicacy favored by many, especially men. For a safer and more hygienic enjoyment, learn how to make it at home! PasGo will share the recipe for making delicious, safe, and as thick as jello duck blood pudding right here.

Duck blood pudding is a distinctive culinary tradition in our country. People can make it from duck blood, pig blood... but duck blood pudding is perhaps the most beloved.

A bowl of fresh and delicious duck blood pudding

How to make duck blood jelly

For a bowl of duck blood jelly that's both firm and delicious, choose mature ducks for your dish (where the wings close and the wing feathers cross each other). If the duck is still young (with uncrossed wings), the duck blood jelly will taste gamey, with a strong smell of feather milk, making it less appetizing and lacking the distinctive flavor of duck blood jelly.

1. Ingredients for duck blood jelly

• Duck: 1 duck weighing about 1 kg -1.3 kg

• 1 - 2 sets of duck gizzards purchased extra from the market for richer flavor

• Medical salt, or Oresol, or fresh lime, or ripe banana blossom, or fish sauce for marinating duck blood jelly

• 1 bowl of boiled then cooled water + 2 teaspoons of seasoning powder + half a tablespoon of fish sauce

• 2 ounces of pre-roasted and finely crushed peanuts, 1 bundle of basil leaves (perilla leaves), 2 bundles of Vietnamese coriander

• 5 grilled shallots, 3 lime leaves, 3 fresh chili peppers, 1 stalk of ginger.

2. Delicious ways to marinate duck blood jelly until firm

Before slicing the duck blood jelly, prepare the marinating liquid. There are 5 methods to marinate duck blood jelly that you can apply. Each method will have its own advantages and disadvantages. Choose the method that you feel most appropriate.

Method 1. Marinating duck blood jelly with fish sauce

Marinating duck blood jelly with fish sauce

This is the best method for marinating duck blood jelly, with the most beautiful color, but it's difficult to achieve firmness. You can refer to the mixing ratio below.

Mixing ratio: 1 part fish sauce + 1.5 - 2 parts boiled then cooled water + one teaspoon of seasoning powder

Method 2. Delicious marinating duck blood jelly with Oresol

Oresol is a solution of orange salt, widely available at Western pharmacies

Deliciously marinate duck blood jelly with Oresol

Marinating duck blood jelly with Oresol gives the highest success rate, but the color of the duck blood jelly will not be vibrant.

Mixing ratio: Use ½ – 1 packet of Oresol 4.2g + 2 parts boiled then cooled water

Method 3. Marinating duck blood jelly with ripe banana blossom leaves

This method is commonly used in northern rural areas, quite simple but not as delicious as fish sauce. Cut ripe banana blossom leaves, squeeze out a few drops of juice and add to the bowl.

Method 4. Marinating duck blood jelly with fresh lime

Marinating duck blood jelly with fresh lime

This method is very easy and quick, but the color of the jelly will become darker, making it less visually appealing. + Squeeze half a lime into a bowl, remove seeds + Swirl the entire surface of the bowl with the lime juice a few times, leaving some residue at the bottom of the bowl, then discard the rest.

Method 5. Marinating duck blood jelly with medical salt

This method is quite clean and safe, but the color may not be appealing.

Mixing ratio: Take ½ teaspoon of medical salt + 2 parts boiled then cooled water.

3. How to slice duck blood jelly

+ Place a bowl of prepared solution (step 2) under the duck and slice the jelly to let it flow into the bowl.

Bowl of duck blood jelly

+ After cutting the jelly, gently stir to evenly disperse the blood in the solution to prevent it from clotting, then leave it still without moving.

Note: You can cut the jelly at the neck, throat, or wing. But it's best to cut along the vein with a slightly greenish color on the wing for fresher and more abundant jelly.

4. Tips for beating duck blood jelly and making filling

4.1 Making filling for duck blood jelly

+ Put duck, duck giblets, cleaned ginger in a pot, add enough water to cover the duck, cover with a lid and boil for 30 minutes (insert a chopstick into the duck thigh, if there is no red juice oozing out, the duck is cooked)

Boiling duck

+ After the duck is cooked, remove and discard the neck and heart (except for the liver), finely chop the rest to make the filling.

+ Grill the shallots until brown, chop the coriander, basil, lime leaves, and chili finely (reduce the chili for those who can't handle spice).

+ Mix all the finely chopped ingredients together in a large plate.

4.2 Beating duck blood jelly

+Use a small spoon to skim off any excess water on top of the jelly marinated in step 3

+ Mix boiled then cooled water with seasoning powder prepared beforehand in a ratio of 1 part jelly to 2 parts water, stir evenly with chopsticks.

+ Pour the prepared filling onto plates. Then place the plates in a fixed location to set completely, then sprinkle peanuts and thinly sliced liver on top, and you have completed the duck blood jelly dish. The finished duck blood jelly dish. If you follow the correct method for making duck blood jelly above, the success rate is very high.

Completed duck blood jelly

After making duck blood jelly, it should be firm like jelly, with a bright red color, soft and tender filling, not hardened by bones, clean, and safe. The taste is just right, simply squeeze a bit of lime and add some Vietnamese coriander leaves for a wonderful flavor.

How to cure unset duck blood jelly

If your duck blood jelly dish doesn't set, it's likely due to the boiled then cooled water in the seasoning mixture being too salty or too bland. But there are still ways to fix unset duck blood jelly:

• If it's too salty: Dissolve an additional teaspoon of seasoning powder + 2 parts boiled then cooled water, pour into the duck blood jelly bowl and stir evenly once more. Then let it rest.

• If it's too bland: Mix 2 teaspoons of fish sauce + 1 part boiled then cooled water, pour into the duck blood jelly bowl, stir evenly, then let it rest.

Make sure to follow the above methods, and your duck blood jelly dish will set properly.

Above are the steps to make delicious and safe duck blood jelly as firm as jelly, a simple guide that PasGo wants to share with you. Hopefully, with instructions like these, you will succeed!

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