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- From: Que <que@halcyon.com>
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Manchurian Duck Salad
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 20:51:48 -0700
- Message-ID: <199506240351.AA19137@halcyon.com>
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- Manchurian Duck Salad
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- Ingredients
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- 1 Whole roasted or bar-b-que=92d duck
- 1 Tablespoon peanut oil
- 1 Large clove garlic (finely chopped)
- 1/2 Teaspoon ginger (finely chopped)
- 1 Chili pepper (finely chopped)
- 1/2 Cup Fruit brandy
- 1/4 Cup salad oil
- 3/4 Cup rice vinegar
- 1 Teaspoon sugar
- 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
- Sesame oil
- Butter lettuce
- 1 Tomato (cut into 6 wedges)
- 12 Mandarin orange sections (fresh or canned)
- 2 Mushrooms (thinly sliced)
- 3 Tablespoons coarsely chopped peanuts
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- Preparation
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- Dressing:
- 1. Stir fry garlic, ginger and chili pepper in the peanut oil, over
- medium-high heat, until fragrant.
- 2. Lower heat to medium, add the brandy and flamb=E9.
- 3. Reduce by 1/2.
- 4. Set aside and cool to room temperature.
- 5. In a non-metallic bowl, whisk together salad oil, rice vinegar, sugar and
- soy sauce.
- 6. Add a few drops of sesame oil.
- 7. While continuing to whisk, slowly drizzle the brandy mixture into the
- salad oil, rice vinegar, sugar and soy sauce.
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- Salad:
- 1. Reheat the duck, remove the meat from the bones then slice into 1/8 - 1/4
- inch pieces.
- 2. Place butter lettuce leaves on each of three plates, covering the entire
- plate.
- 3. Drizzle 1 ounce of dressing evenly over lettuce on each plate.
- 4. Decoratively, place the duck meat on top of the lettuce plates.
- 5. Garnish the plates with the tomato wedges, sliced mushrooms, mandarin
- orange sections and chopped peanuts.
- 6. Drizzle another ounce of dressing evenly over each salad.
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- Enjoy with a young white wine and someone you love. Serves three.
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