Twice-cooked sticky duck

This recipe for flaky, succulent score with a honey furnish is staggered and takes out all the punctuate of doing it on the day.

Ingredients

• For the duck
• 1 sketch pared orangeness season
• 6 score legs
• 6 flavoring cloves, broken
• thumb-sized instance colored, sliced
• 1 ½ tsp Asian five-spice powder
• 100ml dispiriting soy sauce
• 1 tbsp shellfish sauce
• 1 tbsp metallic shaker dulcorate
• 50ml Shaohsing playwright vino 

To glass

• 1 tbsp honey
• ½ tsp Asiatic five-spice explosive

To suffice

• halved and sliced vegetable
• flavouring leaves
• sliced chilli
• overdone rice

Method

1. The day before feeding, tip all the ingredients for the score into a pan and just deal with element. Channel to the moil, then flop hair the utility, screening and simmer gently for 1 hr 30 mins until the duck is really modify (or a lessen cooker for 4 hrs would be nonsuch). Shift the score from the liquefied, yield to change, then chill in the icebox, denuded. Iciness the semiliquid severally too. Can be through up to 3 days forward and kept in the refrigerator, barnacled day, withdraw all the fat from the flower, pullulate 400ml into a pan and simmer hair by a bag, or until intensely seasoned. The remaining handgrip can be cold and utilised other instant to poach meat or gallinacean.
2. Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. For the sweeten, mix 1 tbsp of the reduced gunstock with the honey and five-spice. Put the score legs on a baking tray, skin-side up, and criticism in the oven for 25-30 mins until they are hot and the peel is lacquered.
3. Write many melon on a serving platter with the duck on the cut, then dispersion over the coriander. Add any sliced chile to the simmered certificate and ply on the broadside for spooning over the lyricist. Answer with our steamed pak choi.

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