Braised Duck with Sea Cucumber

The sea cucumbers that my mum gave me during CNY are sleeping in the freezer, so I tell myself better cook it while I have the mood and the time, for this dish I didn't really follow any recipe, just come up with my own version. I used claypot to cook this dish as I felt it will gave the dish a better flavour and taste.

Ingredients A:
½ duck – chopped into small pieces
6 dried Chinese mushrooms – soaked
2 medium sea cucumber – pre-soaked in water
4 slice old ginger

Ingredient B:
3 cloves
1pc cinnamon bark
1 star anises
1 tsp salt
3 clove garlic
600ml water

Seasoning:
1 tbsp oyster sauce
½ tsp salt
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
¼ tsp pepper
1 tbsp cooking wine

Method:
1. Rinse duck. Cut mushrooms into half. Cut sea cucumber into large pieces.

2. Heat up 1tbsp oil in wok, fry ginger for awhile, add in sea cucumber and fry for 1-2min, add in duck meat and fry till all sides of meat looks cooked, add in mushroom and mix well.

3. Pour in seasonings and ingredient B. Cover and bring to boil, let it simmer over small fire for 50min or till duck is cook and soften. Serve.

Homemade Braised Duck

First attempt on braised duck, didn't cook a whole duck partly because I haven't master the skill of chopping a whole duck or chicken, so I just bought those ready chop and packed fresh duck from supermarket. Kenny help me to add the dark soy sauce so the amout in the recipe is my estimation. The recipe was combination of a few of the similar dishes and the taste was pretty up to my expectation.


Ingredients:
½ duck – chopped
1 tsp dark soy sauce
6 dried mushrooms (soaked)
few slice of ginger
2 tsp chopped garlic
6 shallot – peel and slice

B)
2 slice of dang gui
1 piece of cinnamon
1 piece of star anise
4 cloves
2 pieces dried orange peel

Sesoning:
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
pinch of salt
2 tbsp rock sugar
500ml water

Method:
1. Blanch duck into boiling water for 5 min, dish and drain. Rub duck with dark soy sauce and set aside.

2. Heat oil in wok, sauté chopped garlic, ginger and shallots until fragrant. Add in duck, mushrooms, seasoning, ingredients B and stir-fry until well mixed. Lower heat and simmer for 1 hour.