Wor Shu Duck (Mandarin/Almond Pressed Duck)

Name: Wor Shu Duck (Mandarin/Almond Pressed Duck)
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2270 g whole duck; 2 tsp neutral oil; 1 pc ginger; ½ pc spring onion; 3 pc star anise; 80 g salt; 50 g sugar; 360 ml light soy sauce; 120 ml shaoxing wine; 60 ml dark soy sauce; 1900 ml water; 2 pc eggs; 90 g dried breadcrumbs; 15 g cornflour; 15 g plain flour; ¼ tsp salt; ¼ tsp white pepper; 480 ml canola oil; 1 pc garlic; 80 g mushrooms; 80 g bamboo shoots; 80 g red pepper; 170 g napa cabbage; 80 ml duck braising liquid; 15 g oyster sauce; ½ tsp sesame oil; ⅛ tsp white pepper; 160 g bok choy; 15 g cornflour; 30 ml water

Duck braised in spiced soy-salt liquid, deboned and chilled, then egg-and-breadcrumbed and deep-fried before serving with a glossy stir-fried vegetable topping and almond garnish.

90 min 672 kcal/serving serves 8

672kcal65gprotein39gcarbs27gfat

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🍗whole duck

🫗neutral oil

🫚ginger

🧅spring onion

🫙star anise

🧂salt

🍬sugar

🥢light soy sauce

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The Woks of Life is a multigenerational family blog written by Bill, Judy, Sarah, and Kaitlin Leung, an American family with roots across different regions of China. Since 2013 they have published a large archive of tested Chinese recipes, drawing on both home cooking traditions and professional restaurant experience within the family.

Their recipes cover a wide range of Chinese regional cooking, from Northern dumplings and noodles to Cantonese stir-fries, Shanghainese braises, and Sichuan dishes with characteristic heat and numbing spice. They lean on wok technique, proper heat control, and pantry staples like soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, and doubanjiang, and they are known for explaining ingredients and methods in detail so home cooks can reproduce restaurant-style results.

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