Dish of Red Cooked Duck Feet
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Duck Feet Red Cooked


China - Southeast
Serves:
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Sched:
DoAhead:  		 8 app
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2-1/2 hrs
Yes		 Duck Feet are often served in Chinese dim sum tea houses. This recipe can also be used with chicken feet (see Note-2) and is much easier and less messy to make than the famous Chicken Feet in Bean Sauce. These reheat well.

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Duck Feet (1)
Scallions
Ginger root
Rice Wine (3)
Soy Sauce
-- Sauce
Stock, Chicken
Oyster Sauce
Star Anise pod
Orange Peel
Sugar
Salt
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Cornstarch
Water
Oil
Sesame Oil
-- Garnish
Scallions
Prep   -   (15 min)
  1. Rinse DUCK FEET and pick off any fragments of the yellow outer skin that may be found.
  2. Cut SCALLIONS, green part only, into 1/2 inch lengths. Slice GINGER thin. Mix.
  3. Mix Rice Wine and Soy Sauce.
  4. Mix together all Sauce Items.
  5. Mix Cornstarch and Water.
Run   -   (2 hrs)
  1. In a wok or spacious sauté pan heat Oil and fry Scallion Mix stirring for about 30 seconds, then stir in Duck Feet. Fry stirring for about 3 minutes.
  2. Stir in Rice Wine mix for about 30 seconds, then stir in Stock mix. Bring to a boil, then turn down heat. Cover and simmer for about 1-1/2 hours turning a couple of times. Simmer longer if needed to reach tenderness (a toe should pull off easily).
  3. Sort out Duck Feet and arrange in a serving dish. Keep warm.
  4. Strain the liquid, discarding remaining solids. Measure 1 cup liquid into a small sauce pan and bring to a high simmer.
  5. Stir up Cornstarch until suspended in the water, then stir into the saucepan. Continue to stir until the sauce comes back to a simmer and is thickened to a thin sauce consistency.
  6. Pour Sauce over the Duck Feet, then sprinkle with Sesame Oil. Garnish with chopped Scallions and serve hot.
  7. These are served warm with tea, but I find they go rather well with red wine. See Note-4 on eating. When the feet are all eaten any of the delicious sauce that remains can be used in stir fries in place of oyster sauce.
NOTES:

  1. Duck Feet:

      Purchase thoroughly cleaned with the yellow scaly outer skin removed. For details see our Duck Feet page.

  2. Chicken Feet:

      If using chicken feet, use your kitchen shears to cut off all the toenails. Adjust cooking time as needed. For details see our Chicken Feet page.

  3. Rice Wine:

      Use a good drinkable Chinese rice wine, lacking that use a dry Sherry. For details see our Rice Wine page.

  4. Eating:

      Duck and Chicken feet are properly eaten by picking up with chopsticks. You start eating at the toes, one joint at a time, spitting out the bones when stripped of the edible part. We barbarians prefer to just pick up a leg with our fingers (napkins and finger bowls needed).
  5. U.S. measure: t=teaspoon, T=Tablespoon, c=cup, qt=quart, oz=ounce, #=pound, cl=clove in=inch, ar=as required tt=to taste

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