Red-cooked duck with pork and chestnuts

4 Servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
4-(up to)
6Dried black mushrooms
½poundsChestnuts
1Duck; 3 to 4 pounds
½poundsLean pork
1Scallion stalk
2Or
3slicesFresh ginger root
1cupSoy sauce
4cupsWater

Directions

1. Soak dried mushroons. Blanch and shell chestnuts.

2. Wipe duck with a damp cloth and chop, bones and all, in 2-inch sections. Cut pork in 1-inch cubes. Place duck and pork in a heavy pan.

3. Cut scallion stalk in 1-inch sections; slice ginger root. Add to pan, along with soy sauce, water, soaked mushrooms and chestnuts.

4. Bring to a boil; then simmer, covered, until done (about 1-½ hours).

From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .