Sweet And Sour Duck

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 duck breasts
• 1 pinch pepper
• 1 teaspoon rice wine or 1 teaspoon dry sherry
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 7/8 cup peanut oil
• 1 in piece fresh ginger, peeled and finely sliced
• 1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into 1/2in chunks
• 2 small oranges, juice
• 1 lime, juice
• 1 tablespoon light soy sauce

Recipe

• 1 remove the skin from the duck breasts and cut the duck into thin slices. put the duck slices in a bowl with a pinch of salt, the pepper, rice wine or dry sherry and the cornstarch. mix well.
• 2 heat a wok over a high heat and pour in the peanut oil. heat the oil to 350f or until a cube of bread dropped in turns golden brown in 15 seconds and floats to the surface.
• 3 shallow fry the duck in the oil for about 2 mins, stirring now and again, until golden and crispy on the outside.
• 4 take the wok off the heat, remove the duck with a slotted spoon and drain on absorbent kitchen paper. pour the oil from the wok through a fine seive into a bowl.
• 5 return 1 tbs of the oil to the wok (you can discard the rest) and return the wok to a high heat. when the oil starts to smoke, add the ginger and stir fry for a few seconds., then add the red pepper and stir fry for 1 minute.
• 6 return the fried duck slices to the wok. next add the orange juice, lime juice and soy sauce and toss together until well combined.
• 7 serve immediately.