Chinese Recipes - Orange Roast Duck Recipe

  
 

Chinese Chicken Recipes - Orange Roast Duck Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 duck

  • 2 cloves garlic, halved

  • 45 ml/3 tbsp groundnut (peanut) oil

  • 1 onion

  • 1 orange

  • 120 ml/4 fl oz/1/2 cup rice wine or dry sherry

  • 2 slices ginger root. minced

  • 5 ml/1 tsp salt

Method:

  1. Rub the garlic over the duck inside and out then brush it with oil.

  2. Pierce the peeled onion with a fork, place it and the unpeeled orange inside the duck cavity and seal with a skewer.

  3. Stand the duck on a rack over a roasting tin filled with a little hot water and roast in a preheated oven at 160C/325F/gas mark 3 for about 2 hours.

  4. Discard the liquids and return the duck to the roasting tin. Pour over the wine or sherry and sprinkle with the ginger and salt.

  5. Return to the oven for a further 30 minutes. Discard the onion and orange and cut the duck into serving pieces. Pour the pan juices over the duck to serve.