Roasted Duck with Star Anise Poached South African Plums and Bok Choi Recipe at MyDish

Roasted Duck with Star Anise Poached South African Plums and Bok Choi

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Method

  • 1. Score the skin of the duck breasts, rub with five-spice powder and set aside.

  • 2. Put the sugar, 300ml of water, peeled and sliced ginger, and star anise into a saucepan and bring to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes.

  • 3. Add the plums and simmer for a further 5 minutes or until just tender. Then take off the heat.

  • 4. Put another frying pan on a very low heat. Season the duck breasts and place skin-side down in the pan.

  • 5. Cook slowly for about 15 minutes, periodically draining off the fat into a bowl. (This slow cooking is to render the fat from the skin, so don’t worry that the duck isn’t browning off.)

  • 6. After the 15 minutes is up, turn up the heat to now brown off the skin-side then turn the breasts over and cook on the flesh-side for a few minutes to brown. Remove from the pan and leave to rest for 10 minutes.

  • 7. While resting the duck you can stir fry the bok choi 4-5 minutes in a hot wok with the sesame oil and soy sauce, you really don’t want to over cook them. Then take them out and place one bok choi on each plate, slice the duck breast and also add to the plate along with a spoonful of plums.

  • 8. Serve with fragrant boiled rice.

    • Comments Add your comment

    • This sounds like a very delicious meal. Although I have prepared duck with plum sauce before, I have never used star anise in the recipe. Definitely think this is something I will have to try. Thanks.

      by Gordon Hamilton on Sun Jan 9 2011   reply to this comment

    Ingredients

    • 4 Duck breasts. about 150g each
    • 1 tsp. Five-spice powder
    • 4 Plums. halved and de-stoned
    • 100g Caster sugar
    • 5 cm piece Fresh root ginger. peeled and slice into large chunks
    • 2 Star anise
    • 4 small Bok choi. trimmed and quartered
    • 1 tsp. Sesame oil
    • 2 tbsp. Soy sauce

    By Views 2049  Added Tue Feb 2 2010


    Duck works so well with Chinese flavours and plums.

     

    Duck works so well with Chinese flavours and plums. I have added the extra depth of star anise and five spice to make a dish packed full of flavour. Making this dish is also a healthy alternative to the fat and sugar filled Chinese takeaways that we Read More

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