California Farm Chinese Duck Dinner

Name: How to cook California Farm Chinese Duck Dinner - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2-4 people, festive dinner
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hobby Horseman

California Farm Chinese Duck Dinner

If you have ever baked a whole chicken, you can make this exotic holiday feast. Crispy skin orange sauce duck breasts served with pungent duck fat fried rice.

Ingredient

Food ration :

2-4 people, festive dinner

Cooking time :

5 hours plus 20 minutes

5 pound

fresh orange, sliced horizontally

1 cup

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Crisscross duck breasts with 1” diamond shaped cuts in skin, to crisp skin. Rub breasts sparsely with seasalt. Put on roasting rack in preheated oven at 200F degrees, breast up, roast 2 hours. Flip breasts down, bake 2 more hours. Turn duck breastside up, bake another hour. Take duck out, turn oven to 400F degrees. Rub breast with 2 Tbs orange marmelade and 2 Tbs Grand Marnier liqueur, bake 15 minutes, rest, covered. Save duck fat for making duck fat fried rice.

* Step 2

Remove and carve duck breasts, serve over duck fat fried rice with orange slices.

* Step 3

How to make fried rice while roasting duck. Takes about 2 hours. Boil cup basmati rice in saucepan with 1/4 tsp turmeric in 2 cups of water,15 minutes, rest 1 hour, fluff. Heat 4 Tbs duck fat into wok with slivered duck neck skin, diced shallot, sliced carrot and peas for color, add fluffy rice, stir fry half an hour.

* Step 4

Prepare mung noodle broth dish in dutch oven: 2 nests of mung bean noodles, 4 cups chicken broth, 1 cup shredded green vegetables, 2 ginger slices, sliced shiitake mushrooms. Bring to boil, simmer till noodles are soft, 10 minutes.

* Step 5

Before starting dinner, put duck legs, wings, back and neck in boiling noodle broth to steam 30 minutes while enjoying your main course with guest. Move steamed duck carcass from noodle broth to serving platter, use forks to pull duck meat off bones, family style, to mix with noodles for your next course, cup of broth on the side.