Spicy Stewed Duck with Sweet Potatoes
posted in Other Meat Dishes |Here is another dish to add to the reunion dinner for the Chinese New Year celebration. Buy a duck that is not too fat, a skinny one is good for this dish. Sweet potatoes can be bought at at the wet market or a hypermarket and buy yellowish type is suitable for this dish.
Ingredients:
1 kg duck, cleaned and cut into bite-sized pieces
500 gm sweet potatoes, cut into bite-sized pieces
enough oil for deep-fried
2 tablespoon minced ginger and garlic
Sauce ingredients:
3 cubes ‘nam yee’(red bean curd), mashed smoothly
2 tablespoon ‘tau cheong’ (bean paste”
1 tablespoon chilli paste
3 dried chillies, cleaned and cut into 1 inch strips
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon soya sauce
1 tablespoon black sauce
2 cups water
1 tablespoon cornflour mixed with 1 tablespoon water
Method:
Heat a wok with enough cooking oil. Fry sweet potatoes for 3 minutes. Dish out out and drain. Add in duck meat to fry for 3 minutes and drain aside. Pour out access oil and leave 3 spoons to fry the minced ginger and garlic then add in the sauce ingredients except the cornflour mixture. Stir-fry til aromatic. Add in the meat and potatoes, and water. Cover wok and stew for half an hour. Thicken gravy with cornflour mixture and heat through. Garnish and serve.
