Savoury Duck with Lychees

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Ken Hom Cooks Thai

By Ken Hom

Published 2001

  • About

Thailand is blessed with a large variety of tropical and, to us, exotic fruits. It is therefore not surprising that these fruits have found their way into the Thai cooking canon. Such fruits are often paired with meats and the result is always delectable.

I am especially fond of duck with lychees (also called lichees, litchis). Here rich duck meat is combined with the sweet flavour of juicy lychees in an aromatic sauce. In Thailand this recipe calls for a whole duck, cooked bones an