Chinese Chicken Recipes - Honey Roast Duck Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 duck

• salt

• 3 cloves garlic, crushed

• 3 spring onions, minced

• 45 ml/3 tbsp soy sauce

• 45 ml/3 tbsp rice wine or dry sherry

• 45 ml/3 tbsp honey

• 200 ml/scant 1 cup boiling water

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Method:

1. Pat the duck dry and rub with salt inside and out. Mix the garlic, spring onions, soy sauce and wine or sherry then divide the mixture in half.

2. Mix the honey into one half and rub over the duck then leave it to dry. Add the water to the remaining honey mixture.

3. Pour the soy sauce mixture into the cavity of the duck and stand it on a rack in a roasting tin with a little water in the bottom.

4. Roast in a preheated oven at 180C/350F/gas mark 4 for about 2 hours until the duck is tender, basting throughout cooking with the remaining honey mixture.