Recipe - Duck With Black Bean Sauce And Tamarind Jus

stuffing ingredients
2 Duck
1 cup Chopped celery
2/3 cup Chopped cooking onion
1 cup Chopped carrots
1 cup Peeled and minced orange
1 Salt and pepper to taste
Black bean sauce ingredients
1
2 cup Black beans
One half Apple, skinned
2 Shallots, minced
1 tablespoon Port
1 teaspoon Cumin
1 teaspoon Crushed chilies
One half teaspoon Fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon Fresh chopped coriander
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Fresh chopped tarragon
2 cup Duck stock
1 teaspoon Butter
tamarind jus ingredients
1
One half pound Tamarind
1 cup Duck stock
1 teaspoon Butter

Mix the stuffing ingredients in the cavity of the two ducks. Trim the
excess fat and bind the legs at the tail end. Season with salt and pepper
and roast in 325 degree F oven for 2 hours Pour off any grease. When ducks
are golden brown, remove from the oven and cool to room temperature. Halve
the ducks along the backbone and debone. Discard the stuffing and put the
bones in 4 cups of water with an onion, some carrot and salt and pepper.
Simmer for about 2 hours. Reserve duck stock. Black bean sauce: Blanch the
beans in water until soft, then coursely chop. Skin and puree the apple.
Sweat the shallots in the port until they are translucent. Combine the rest
of the ingredients with the beans and pureed apple and simmer for about 15
minutes until the flavours blend. Swirl in the butter. Set aside and keep
warm. Tamarind Jus: Soak tamarind in water until soft. Squeeze seed out,
then strain and puree pulp. Combine puree and duck stock and heat through.
Swirl in the butter. Place the ducks skin side down in roasting pan in a
500 degree F oven for about 10 minutes (until skin is crispy) Pour some of
the black bean sauce on four plates and top with the ducks skin side up.
Drizzle some of the tamarind jus over the ducks and serve with oriental
vegetables.

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