Recipe Ingredient
- 400g duck meat (debone and marinate with salt, chicken bouillon and cornstarch for 40 minutes)
- 10g XO sauce
- 180g shrimp paste
- 10g garlic
- 10g shallot
- 40g Chinese wine
- 10g salt
- 10g chicken bouillon
- 200g cornstarch
- Garnishing:
- 100g lettuce
- 150g carrot
Instructions
- Boil water. Blanch duck meat to remove excess fat. Hang duck to dry for a couple of hours. Spread shrimp paste over duck meat evenly. Heat wok with oil and deep fry duck meat.
- To prepare sauce: Heat wok with oil and fry shallot, garlic and XO sauce. Lastly add in Chinese wine and season to taste. Pour sauce over dish and serve.
- Taste and tell: This dish is presented as diamond-shaped slices with shrimp paste for base and duck meat on top. Each slice is garnished with XO sauce. The slices remind me of steamed yam cake.
- The shrimp paste is a winner as it is springy and flavoursome. The duck meat is fried to a crisp but there is less of the lean meat.
- XO sauce is not the liquid gravy but in dried form, distinguished by crispy shredded scallops and dried prawns.
