April is the month when temperatures are right, and it's the perfect time to lose weight and get fit. During weight loss, you can't just eat vegetarian food without meat, only by consuming enough protein and nutrients can you lose weight healthily. Therefore, many friends who have lost weight have begun to eat chicken breast, and often discuss how to make chicken breast more delicious.
One day, a friend asked me why chicken breast is so common and loved by fitness people and dieters, but duck breast is rare, and I can often see chilled chicken breast in supermarkets and vegetable markets, but I have never seen duck breast sold. For this reason, I specially asked my cousin, who is a chef, and he told me from the perspective of an insider, there are mainly the following 5 reasons, so let's take a look, right?
1. Most of the duck meat is cooked whole. For example, the common Peking duck, Cantonese roast duck, Nanjing's salted duck, preserved duck, etc., are almost all made of whole ducks. Although you can see frozen chicken breasts, chicken wings, chicken feet, duck wings, duck legs and other parts in the fresh food section of the supermarket, you can hardly see duck breast.
2. Duck breast is higher in fat than chicken breast. Common chicken breasts are skinless, while duck breasts are skinned, as you can see from the picture below, duck breast has a thick layer of fat, which is much higher than the fat content of chicken breast. Duck meat itself is cold, and for some people with a cold constitution, it is not as suitable for most people as chicken breast.
3. Bulk procurement of high-end restaurants and hot pot restaurants. Some high-end restaurants use duck meat for high-end dishes, such as duck breast with black pepper and red wine, French pan-fried duck breast and other exquisite foreign flavors. Hot pot restaurants will buy some cheap meat in bulk, and duck breast is one of them, so it is rare to see duck breast sold in the market. Some friends wondered why there is no braised duck breast, perhaps because the duck breast is just used to supply high-end restaurants and hot pot restaurants.
4. Unscrupulous merchants use duck breast to pass off as beef or mutton. Duck breast is darker in color and looks a bit like beef and lamb. I used to listen to my husband's novel, and the cafeteria where he worked used duck breast to pretend to be mutton.
5. Duck breast has a tougher taste and is not as tender and delicious as chicken breast. In contrast, delicate chicken breast, even if cooked in plain water, can be easily flavored with a little salt or light soy sauce, while duck breast needs to be seasoned with a richer sauce to achieve the best taste.
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