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Preparation Time:
10 Min
Serves:
6
Difficulty:
Easy
Cost:
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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. Unlike chicken,
there's a layer of fat that can cause problems. When duck is simply
roasted, it often cooks unevenly, leaving a lot of excess fat. In
addition, much of the potentially delicious skin is discarded.

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 meat. As a bonus, this technique can produce duck skin that is
succulently crisp.

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
brown. 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/soy/rock sugar sauce, which is reduced at the end of the
cooking time to a syrupy glaze. Sometimes just the skin is stuffed
with boned duck meat, which has been mixed with glutinous rice or
barley, mushrooms, Chinese dates, lotus seeds and ham; then the whole
thing is steamed.

The famous Peking Duck, which many rank as one of the world's greatest
dishes, begins by easing the skin away from the meat then pumping in
air so the whole duck inflats like a balloon. The duck then is
scalded in a honey-vinegar mixture and hung overnight to dry before
being cooked. This dish is not a good choice for the home cook
because the duck is best roasted suspended in a special clay-lined
oven.

The lacquered-looking ducks that hang in Chinese delicatessens,
somethimes mistakenly thought to be Peking ducks, actually are
Cantonese roast ducks. After basting the skins and hanging the ducks
overnight, they are roasted to golden brown perfection -- a sauce of
five-spices, star anise, wine and garlic simmering in their cavities.
For not much more than the price of an uncooked duck, these, by the
half or whole, make excellent take-out food.

The method that follows for making Sichauan Crispy Skin Duck is
typical of Chinese duck cookery. It requires a few steps over a
couple of days, and two cooking procedures, but it's not difficult -
although frying a whole duck in a wok full of oil may be a new
experience.

This is an article from the San Francisco Chronicle by Bruce Cost
about the Chinese philosophy of cooking duck.

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