Crispy Duck Home Style

Name: Crispy Duck Home Style (Hsiang su ya)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 8 cups oil; ½ cup flour; 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 1 tablespoon wine; 2 teaspoons flavored peppercorn salt; 1 duck (about 4 pounds); 2 slices ginger; 2 green onions; 2 tablespoons salt; 2 tablespoons brown peppercorn

Hsiang su ya

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 duck (about 4 pounds)
2 tablespoons brown peppercorn

Asia
Taiwan
Shantung
Hopeh
Honan
Shansi
Main course

Method

Fry the brown peppercorn over low heat in dry frying pan for 1 minute. When it is brown and smells good, add salt and fry 1 more minute. Place in a bowl and let cool. Mix with green onion, ginger and wine.
Clean and wipe the duck. Rub the outside and inside of duck with fried peppercorn and salt (#1). Let stand for 6 hours or overnight.
Place the duck