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Sweet Muscovy duck cooked with plums and star anise

20/02/2017 by Shirley Harring 1 Comment

“Cooked slowly to give you thin, crispy skin and beautiful, melt-in-your-mouth meat” – Jamie Oliver

 

This adaptation of Jamie’s original, which touted the use of just the legs, comes with the stamp of approval from hand Sourced’s customer Peter Best. As Peter pointed out – why use just the legs when you have this whole amazing Muscovy to play with? We agree. Just make sure you section out the raw duck to ensure you don’t have a large bird sitting on top of the delicious plum mixture. 

 

Our Muscovy Ducks are free ranged, pasture reared, no hormones, antibiotics or veterinary drugs administered.

 

 

 

Prep: 2hrs-48hrs

Cooktime: 2-2.5 hours

Serves: 4

Ingredients

  • 4 fat duck legs (we use one full Muscovy duck around 3.6kg)
  • 4 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 3 teaspoons five-spice
  • 1 handful star anise
  • ½ stick cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1-2 fresh red chillies , deseeded and sliced
  • 16 plums , halved and destoned
  • 2 tablespoons Demerara sugar

Instructions:

  1. Place the duck in a marinating dish with the soy sauce, five-spice, star anise, cinnamon stick and olive oil and rotate regularly to let them marinate for a minimum of 2 hours. To really get the flavours going, you could keep this in your fridge to marinate for up to 2 days. It’s important to flip the container every few hours if you can, you really want the marinade to infuse the meat and impart the sweetness as deep as possible. 
  2. Use a high-sided roasting tray that snugly fits the duck. Place the chillies, plums and sugar in the bottom of the tray and then pour the marinade from the bag over the top. Mix it all up using your fingers, and place the duck on top. Smear as much of the mix over the duck as you can (or you’ll end up with dry duck and burned fruit)
  3. Place the tray in a preheated oven at 170°C for 2 to 2½ hours until the meat falls away from the bone. Remove the star anise and cinnamon stick, then taste the sauce to see if it needs to be seasoned with a little more soy sauce. It’s now down to you how you would like to serve it.

Serve wrapped in sauce smeared Chinese pancakes with cucumber and spring onion slivers; or simply with rice or noodles and the chunky, jammy plum sauce that the duck has cooked in.

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  1. gunther says

    02/08/2018 at 8:07 PM

    WOW , NICE RECIPE , gunther here from south africa , Barberton.I am definately going to try this . When it comes to Muscovy Ducks , you dont mention the curing process, as a boy , i remember my granny will take the duck , string on the tail , let it hang for +_ 10 days. Your recipe doesnt call for the curing process . Must this be done?
    we stay on a farm , are breeding with Muscovy duck and geese and chicken. i tried me granny’s recipe , was cured for 11 days. was dry , meat was exceptionally tasty though, almost ‘beefy’ granted , i over cooked it. this was my first try , but not the last. Would you suggest that i boil the duck first . Just love the spices that you recommend, i used almost the same mix for oxtail 3 weeks ago, it came out fantastic. any and all advice to make the perfect roasted muscovy duck will be appreciated. kind regards from South Africa , winter is almost finished , our spring day is normally 1 september , i think you will only start with winter now , good luck with that, have a great weekend

    i want to make another duck in 2 weeks time , will keep you up to speed ( want to use your recipe)

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