Where does Nanxiong salted duck belong?

Nanxiong salted duck is a geographical indication protection product.

"Nanxiong salted duck" has a history of thousands of years and is also called "exposure curing" in the local area. Beautiful appearance, golden color, rich aroma, plump oil tail, thin skin and tender meat, red meat and fresh meat, crisp bones. In contrast, "Nanxiong salted duck" is the most famous salted duck in Zhuji Lane. Laxiang is one of the workshops in Zhuji Lane, which is famous for its refined bacon flavor.

Nanxiong salted duck, also known as salted duck, has beautiful appearance, white and yellow skin, plump oil tail, thin skin and tender meat, fresh red meat, crisp bones and tendons, rich aroma and unique flavor. Therefore, for thousands of years, guests who have traveled from south to north should try or buy Nanxiong refined preserved duck.

Appearance: flat or oblate, hard legs, complete head and feet, smooth and hairless body surface, complete epidermis, yellow-white or milky white, dry abdominal wall, and rose-red muscle section. No tail oil, dried duck, bright purple muscles on both sides of salted duck, white ribs.

Taste: fragrant, tough and crisp, with moderate salinity, rich bacon and long smell. After boiling, the soup and meat are fragrant, with a large amount of caked fat on the liquid surface, and the meat is fresh and tender.

Nanxiong salted duck has a history of thousands of years and is also called "exposure curing" locally. According to the records of Nanxiong Prefecture in Qing Dynasty, "drake is tender and fat, crisp, stained with tea oil, bright red and delicious for a long time, which is very expensive in Guangcheng." Nanxiong salted duck is the most famous salted duck in Zhuji Lane. Laxiang is one of the workshops in Zhuji Lane, which is famous for its refined bacon flavor. The quality of ducks is very good, which belongs to the category of duck, and there are many ponds in Nanxiong, which are very suitable for raising ducks. The ducks raised here are thin and fleshy, and delicious. Second, it is located in the mountainous area of northern Guangdong, and the "Nanxiong salted duck" has a special fragrance due to factors such as large temperature difference between day and night and frost.

"From the north wind, the dried salted duck is fragrant." Every winter, local villagers use their own ducks for processing, take coarse salt for pickling, but do not stretch the board and naturally dry it. Therefore, people called it "curing" at that time. Later, it gradually developed into a commodity for production, and the processing technology was continuously improved. The original curing method was changed to stretching setting, the pressing of door panels and grindstones was changed to folding legs, coiled into pipa shape, and then made into peach garden shape, and the name of dried salted duck began to appear.

Nanxiong in winter smells of preserved duck everywhere. No matter where you go, you can see dried duck in front of every household or on the roof, which is people's expectation for the New Year. No matter where you go, the host will serve a mouth-watering plate of preserved duck, steamed or fried or fried. No matter what you do, it will make people more delicious and want to eat. Now that people are well-off, they make more dried salted ducks in winter. When visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, you should bring one or two. Nanxiong's preserved duck has a long fragrance and has long been a delicacy in foreign banquets.

The production of Nanxiong salted duck is purely a traditional process, which has to go through slaughter, dehydration, cutting, pickling, shaping, exposure and inspection, and each process has strict standards. The Nanxiong salted duck was dried and dehydrated by natural air drying and outdoor air drying. Compared with the preserved duck made by artificial heating and baking technology, Nanxiong salted duck has the characteristics of fresh meat and rich bacon flavor. In addition, Nanxiong salted duck will be coated with a layer of local brewed rice wine before drying to increase the flavor.

Nanxiong salted duck has the characteristics of low salt, low moisture, low fat and high protein in the formulation of standards, and belongs to environmental protection and health food. In addition, the standard items of strictly restricting food additives have been formulated to ensure the natural flavor and quality safety of Nanxiong salted duck.

At present, Nanxiong salted duck is mainly produced by Zhu Ji Food Processing Factory in Gushi Town of Nanxiong City and Zhuji Ertang salted duck factory in Nanxiong City.