Cooking Duck, Chinese Style
HANDY CHINESE TRICKS FOR COOKING A WHOLE DUCK Cooking a duck can be intimidating to home cooks. Unlike chicken, there's a layer of fat that can cause pr...
Ingredients
- sugar, approx
- garlic, approx
- chicken, approx
- oil, approx
- rice, approx
- vinegar, approx
Directions
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Stephen Ceideburg 1 ea Duck HANDY CHINESE TRICKS FOR COOKING A WHOLE DUCK Cooking a duck can be intimidating to home cooks
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Unlike chicken, there's a layer of fat that can cause problems
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When duck is simply roasted, it often cooks unevenly, leaving a lot of excess fat
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In addition, much of the potentially delicious skin is discarded
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Chinese cooks slove these problems by applying two or more cooking methods to melt away most of the fat while enchancing the flavor of the m
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As a bonus, this technique can produce duck skin that is succulently crisp
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For example, a duck may be seasoned and hung overnight in a cool, airy place, then steamed, perhaps smoked, and finally fried to a golden br
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Or, a duck may be browned over high heat in a wok full of oil (which melts away some of the fat), drained, and finally simmered in a wine/so