Stir Fried Duck Breast Food

LEFTOVER DUCK STIR FRY

Steps:

• Heat a large wok and add oil.
• Add mushrooms, cook for 3 minutes until they start to soften and brown.
• Add duck, cook for 1 minute.
• Add garlic, ginger, and chilie, stir well, cook for a further 2 minutes.
• Add sweetcorn, mange tout, cook for 2 minutes.
• Add soy sauce, cooking wine, and hoisin sauce. cook for a few minutes until thickened and heated through.
• Add cashews, stir well to heat through.
• Serve with boiled or egg fried basmati rice.

CRISPY DUCK

Steps:

• To make the marinade: Place the star anise, grated ginger, rice wine, peppercorns, salt, dark soy sauce, and light soy sauce, into a bowl, and stir to combine.
• Add the duck breasts to the marinade, cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and leave to marinate for 20 minutes.
• Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F.
• Heat a wok or pan over a high heat, and add the groundnut oil. Remove the duck from the marinade and place the duck into the hot wok or pan, skin-side down, and fry until the skin is brown and crisp, about 4 to 5 minutes. Transfer the duck to a sheet pan, skin-side up, and roast in the oven for 3 to 4 minutes, depending on how well done you would like your duck to be. While the duck is in the oven, prepare the apricot and plum sauce
• To make the sauce: Pour the water into a small saucepan, and bring to a boil. Add the plums, apricots, sugar, honey, cinnamon, star anise, and cook until the mixture has reduced to a sticky sauce. Remove the pan from the heat, and stir in the lime juice.
• To serve, place a duck breast onto a plate, pour over the sauce and serve with a salad.

DUCK STIRFRY

Steps:

• Heat wok or pan to high heat, score the fat side of the duck breast, rub with salt and pepper and put it into the wok, fat side down.
• Turn down heat to medium, immediately. After about 10 min, turn the breast and cook for 2-3 min on the other side (it should be red in the middle). Remove from wok and cover.
• As the duck cooks, cut broccoli into florets, peal the stem and cut it info thick matches (see picture). Cut the carrots the same way. Chop spring onions into inch size pieces. Finely chop chili and garlic.
• As soon as the duck is removed from the wok, add honey, soy sauce and lime juice, combine, add chili and garlic.
• Cook in for a minute and check flavour, it should be well balanced, hot, sweet, salty and sour.
• Turn up the heat a bit and add carrots and broccoli, cook for 3-5 minutes, turning to coat in the sauce. Slice duck and add along with spring onions. Cook for a few minutes more, still turning, till the duck is done and the veggies have taken flavour and softned a bit on the outside.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Cook rice, add peas for the last few minutes of cooking.

FIVE-SPICE DUCK BREASTS WITH VEGETABLE STICKS

Steps:

• Cut all the vegetables into to thin sticks, about the same size as the beans. Drop the beans into a pan of boiling water and bring back to the boil.
• Add the carrots and the red pepper and cook for 1 minute. Drain, rinse under cold water, and then dry on kitchen paper.
• Lightly score the skin of each duck breast into a diamond pattern with the tip of a sharp knife, taking care that you don't cut through the meat.
• Heat a dry frying pan until it is quite hot. Add the duck breasts, skin-side down, reduce the heat to medium and cook them for about three to four minutes until the skin is crisp and golden brown.
• Turn the breasts over and cook them for another five minutes, or a little longer if you don't like your duck too pink. Meanwhile, mix together the five-spice powder, honey, sweet soy sauce, balsamic vinegar and chili.
• Pour away all of the excess fat from the pan. Add the honey mixture and leave it to bubble away, turning the duck breasts now and then, until they are nicely glazed.
• Meanwhile, heat the oil in a wok or another frying pan, add the garlic, ginger and vegetables and stir-fry for one to two minutes until they are cooked but still crunchy. Season with some salt and pepper.
• Pile the vegetable sticks into the centre of two warmed plates. Slice each duck breast on the diagonal and carefully sit it on top of the vegetables.
• Spoon over any remaining glaze and serve immediately.

HOISIN DUCK STIR-FRY

Steps:

• Heat a wok or a large frying pan over a high heat. Drizzle in 1/2 tbsp of the oil and stir-fry the duck for 5 mins until cooked through and golden. Set aside on a plate. Heat the remaining 1/2 tbsp oil and add the pak choi, onion, carrot and celery. Fry for another 5 mins until golden but still crunchy.
• Mix the vinegar, five spice, hoisin, 6 tbsp water, and cornflour together in a small bowl. Add to the wok with the veg along with the cooked duck. Stir well and simmer for 2-3 mins until the sauce thickens and coats the veg. Scatter with the spring onions and serve with noodles or rice and the lemon wedges for squeezing over.