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Peking Duck Recipe


Peking Duck Recipe
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Read the recipe carefully and follow along. Its not hard but it is so good when finished. I rarely make it; however, we do love having it a couple times a year.

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Ingredients
  • 1 4-1/2 to 5 lb duck
  • 1 ts Salt
  • 8 Green onions
  • 2 (1/4 in.) sliced gingerroot
  • 3 tb Honey
  • 2 tb Cornstarch
  • 1 cn Oven-ready biscuits
  • 1 sm Can plum sauce

Directions
  1. A day in advance, clean duck inside & out, dry
  2. thoroughly. Season inside with salt. Tie together stem
  3. ends of 2 green onions, place inside duck cavity with
  4. gingerroot. Bring edges of tail opening together,
  5. stitch with a length of fine wire. Attach another wire
  6. to neck as a handle. Mix 1 qt. water with honey in
  7. large wok or small turkey roasting pan, bring to boil.
  8. When boiling, stir in cornstarch dissolved in 1/4 cup
  9. cold water. Continue to stir to consistency of a thin
  10. stream. Lower heat. Holding duck by neck wire, dip
  11. into honey mixture 3-4 times to coat on all sides.
  12. Remove duck, suspend over container in cool place. Set
  13. an electric fan towards duck to help dry the skin. Let
  14. duck drip-dry overnight.
  15. Next day: preheat oven to 450 F. Place duck breast
  16. side up on flat rack in roasting pan. Roast 30 minute.
  17. Reduce heat to 300 F, turn duck over. Roast 30 more
  18. minutes. Turn duck breast side up again, roast for
  19. final 30 minutes.
  20. Remove biscuits from can, divide each biscuit in 1/2.
  21. Bring 2 in. water to boil in bottom of steamer. Place
  22. biscuits in container above water, cover, & steam 5
  23. minutes. Thinly slice stems of remaining 6 onions into
  24. 2-in. diagonal strips. Divide sliced onion between 4
  25. butter plates, place 1 tsp. plum sauce on each plate.
  26. Prepare duck for serving by cutting off drumsticks &
  27. wings & placing on platter in position whole duck
  28. should be. Carefully slice off all skin pieces of
  29. about 1 and 2 inches, lay them aside. Slice same size
  30. pieces of meat from bone. Place all carved meat on
  31. platter, cover with skin pieces on outside to make
  32. presentation look like a whole duck.
  33. Eat by making sandwich of onion, plum sauce, duck, and
  34. skin.

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Comments


This is great, I will certainly use this when I get back to the States for good and I'll miss China cooking!


Wow takes a bit of fiddling about will have to set aside time in my diary lol
nice post


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