Spicy Duck Recipe Indonesian Style
 
 
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Recipe type: Poultry - Duck
Cuisine: Indonesian
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
  • 1 fresh whole duck (ready to cook), cut into 4 pieces
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 3 cloves
  • 5 kafir lime leaves
  • 1 turmeric leaf (you can skip this ingredient if you don't have any)
  • 3 salam leaves (you can replace with bay leaves)
  • 3 tbsp cooking oil
  • 200 ml thick coconut milk
  • 200 ml water
Paste:
  • 4 big red chilli
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 4 Asian shallots ( or 2 big French onion )
  • 1 big red tomato
  • 2 cm ginger (1 tsp ginger powder)
  • 2 cm galangal (1 tsp galangal paste or powder)
  • ½ tbsp coriander powder
  • ½ tsp pepper powder or whole
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder (2 cm fresh one)
  • A pinch of salt
Cooking Instructions:
  1. Heat the cooking oil, sauté the paste, cinnamon stick, cloves, kafir lime leaves, turmeric leaf and salam/bay leaf until beautifully fragrant.
  2. Add the duck meat, make sure you stir well until the duck meat is covered in paste. At this point cook only until the duck meat is half cooked.
  3. Add the coconut milk and water, turn the heat to medium small. Cook until the broth has thickened and the duck meat is tender.
  4. Turn off the heat. Let the meat cool down.
  5. Turn the oven/BBQ on, ~200 Degrees Celsius normal.
  6. Place the cold or room temperature duck meat on the baking tray, brush some of the thick broth on top of the duck.
  7. Put the duck in the oven or BBQ, for the oven cook for about 25 minutes or until little bit brown.
  8. Serve BBQ duck with steamed rice. Normally we compliment this dish with crunchy raw vegetables like cabbage, cucumber, basil leaves and long beans.
Recipe by Arie's Kitchen at https://arieskitchen.net/spicy-duck-recipe-indonesian-style/