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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Red Duck Curry With Lychees




Ingredients:

3 duck drumsticks (about 650g), cut into 3 pieces
100ml lychee syrup
1 cup water (approx)
about 10 drained canned lychees
oil
fish sauce, to taste
150ml coconut cream
1 lime juice 
3 kaffir lime leaves
coriander leaves, for garnishing


Grounded Ingredients:
2 tbsp chilli powder
150g shallots
50g garlic
40g tumeric
40g galangal
2 stalks of lemongrass
5 candlenuts
4 coriander roots

  • In a frying pan, over medium heat,  fry the duck, skin-side down for about 5 minutes to render the fat.  Turn over and fry lightly to brown the duck.  Transfer onto a plate and set aside.
  • Reduce heat and add about 1 tbsp of oil into the pan.  Stir fry the grounded ingredients until aromatic; add about 1/4 cup coconut cream and bring to the boil.  
  • Add in duck, water and lychee syrup.  Bring to the boil and simmer until duck is tender. Stir occasionally. 
  • Add in the remaining coconut cream, lychees and kaffir lime leaves.  Season with fish sauce and lime juice.
  • Serve hot with steamed rice.


13 comments:

  1. This must be so delicious with the spice mix and lychees. I have never had duck in a curry before.

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  2. Oooh, this is something really new to me becoz I have not seen cooking curry putting lycee in. Mmmm....this is be really delicious! Is it really good having the lycee & syrup in it? I might hesitate to put it it.....

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    1. Phong Hong & Mel: First time I had this, I fell in love with it. Unfortunately I couldn't replicate the exact taste. If you like lychee then you might like it but then it is individual taste.

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  3. Love red duck curry, especially with the lychees! Gotta make this soon, thanks for posting!

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  4. I love duck curry very much. This is a must order menu if we go to our fav local Thai restaurant. I want to learn to cook this dish.

    I make ur char kuih kak not long after u posted on ur blog...turn out so good. I will try to post it as soon after I finish with my mooncake post. Thanks

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    1. Looking forward to see your version of char kuih kak, Li Shuan.

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  5. What a beautiful curry. Love the idea of putting lychees in curry. I don't eat duck much, but I suppose this works with chicken too?

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    1. I cooked chicken in this curry before and it still taste delicious.

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  6. Minty, this is my fav dish to order in the Thai restaurant & I havent had this for such a long time. I actually copied down this recipe(similar) from a cookbook that I borrowed from the community library in few weeks ago but since I'm on a chilli & fried food free diet, I can only appreciating the dish through the blog. Thanks for sharing!

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  7. I have never use duck to cook curry, had it once in a Thai restaurant. Your duck curry look so tempting!

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  8. This looks good! What a unique pairing, the lychees give an exotic feel to the dish!

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    1. Thanks for visiting! You are quite right, I do think the lychees lends an exotic feel to the otherwise ordinary curry dish.

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  9. Oh my Veron, this duck with lychee dish sounded so scrumptious and looks really irresistible too. Hmmm...yummm...
    Kristy

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