Chilli Orange Duck

Name: Chilli Orange Duck
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2-3 oranges; 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 2 spring onions, trimmed; 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar, or other wine vinegar; 2 tbsp red wine or port; 2 tbsp red wine or port; 4 duck breasts, around 200 g each; 2 cinnamon sticks; 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce; 1 tbsp Thai fish sauce; 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar, or other wine vinegar; 100 g sugar; 1 tbsp grated fresh ginger; 1 small red chilli, finely sliced; 2 star anise

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simple Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 2002

About

Here is a nice twist on duck a l’orange - aromatic, crisp-skinned duck in a sticky, sweet and spicy citrus syrup that glows on the plate.

Ingredients

2-3 oranges
100 g sugar
1 tbsp grated fresh ginger</

Main course
Spicy

Method

Scrub the oranges well. Cut the rind from 2 oranges, using a sharp knife, and trim off most of the pith. Cut the rind into short, thin strips. Squeeze the juice from the oranges - you need 250ml.

Combine the orange rind and juice, sugar, ginger, chilli, star anise, cinnamon sticks, sweet chilli sauce, fish sauce, vinegar and red wine in a saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring. Boil f