Thursday, December 17, 2009

Arroz com Pato - Portuguese Rice with Duck


This is one of my favourite recipes I grew up with. My whole family loves it and I yet have to find a friend (adult or kid) I make it to who does not like it either. It is very simple to make just a little time consuming.

INGREDIENTS
1 whole duck
3 cups of rice
1 table spoon of sea salt
4 cloves of garlic
1 chourico

DIRECTIONS
  1.  Fill a large pot or your Crockpot with water and add salt
  2. Once defrosted (if not a fresh duck), remove giblets from inside its cavity and softly insert it into the pot
  3. Cook on low heat for over 3 hours (until the duck's meat easily detaches from the bones)
  4. Remove duck from the stock and let it cool a little
  5. Meanwhile add the rice onto the broth and cook the rice as you would normally do. Add water if need be
  6. in a terracotta 9 x 13 pan, rub the cut garlic cloves all over, so to allow its flavours to spread all over the pan
  7. Remove all meat and skin  from the bones. I usually keep the two lets intact 
  8. Spread the meat all over the pan and cover it with all of the skin
  9. Put pan in oven at low broil until all skin is golden and crispy
  10. Remove pan from oven, remove the skin and add the rice over the duck pieces
  11. Again, cover it with the crispy skin and slices of chourico
  12. Put it in the oven at 375 degrees for about 15 minutes
  13. Serve with a nice bottle of red wine and black olives






6 comments:

Moogie said...

Oh... my! This sounds yummy. I love rice!

drea said...

Thank you for commenting! My mouth is watering looking at all these great recipes, I will be back often.

Drea

Karine said...

I love dusk and your recipe sounds delicious! thanks for sharing :)

Caron said...

This was so delicious when you made it for us. I thought the chorizo was the star and I cut up every piece very small so I had a little spice in every bite.

Anonymous said...

Where is your favorite place to get Duck?

UrbanIdeas said...

I usually like to get them at Asian stores, if not I will get it at local supermarkets

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