World Flavors Cookbook

Zhou Style Roasted Duck

Name: Zhou Style Roasted Duck
Cook time: 90 min
Cuisine: Ancient World
Ingredients: whole duck, honey, soy sauce (or ancient salt sauce), Shaoxing wine, scallions, ginger, star anise, cassia bark, Sichuan pepper, sesame oil

Duck rubbed with honey, soy, and spices and roasted over a wood fire — an ancestor of Peking duck documented in Zhou dynasty palace records as a royal feast preparation.

Cuisine: Ancient World

Ingredients

whole duck, honey, soy sauce (or ancient salt sauce), Shaoxing wine, scallions, ginger, star anise, cassia bark, Sichuan pepper, sesame oil

Instructions

Mix honey, soy sauce, and wine. Rub inside cavity with scallions, ginger, and spices. Coat exterior generously with honey mixture. Hang to air-dry in a cool, breezy place for 4-6 hours (or overnight refrigerated uncovered). Roast over wood or at 200C on a rack for 1.5 hours, basting every 30 minutes with honey mixture. Rest 15 minutes before carving.