Duck Slowly Cooked In Aromatic Spices
By: Sashi Kumar
Published: Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 11:22am

Ingredients




2 wholes thawed young duck
10 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon of vegetable oil
1 teaspoon of ground cardamom
1 teaspoon of ground cloves
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon Quarter of salt
Curry spices to taste
4 fresh chillies seed in
1 tablespoon of tamrind extract

Preparation

1 PREPARATION: Clean the duck by removing all the fat. 2 The ducks usually carry a lot of fat on them so it’s important to take it all out. Cut into bite size pieces. Wash thoroughly. Put aside. 3 Peel and grind the garlic, ginger and chilli together making it into a paste, mmmmm. 4 Finely dice the onions. 5 Wash and pluck the leaves of the cilantro stems. 6 Mix the curry spices, cloves, cinnamon, salt and cardamom together put aside. 7 COOKING: In a large pot heat oil on medium to high heat. 8 Once oil is hot add the onions and the paste to it and sauté it for couple of minutes till all the ingredients are golden brown. 9 The kitchen must smelling so beautiful with all these nice and tasty ingredients:) 10 Add the duck to this beautiful sauté and stir well. 11 Now add all the aromatic spices to this and mix well. 12 Oh my god the smell is so divine of all these special mixtures 13 I could dive into the duck right now but have to be patient .This dish takes a lot of tender loving  care so patience my boy, LOL. 14 Cook on medium high heat for half an hour and add the tamarind extract now. 15 You may also add some water if you wish to have some nice gravy with this dish. 16 After cooking for half an hour lower the heat and simmer for an hour the duck 17 Should be nice and tender and juicy. 18 Garnish your duck with the cilantro leaves 19 Now is the time to dive in LOL. Enjoy the nice flavours!

About


Christmas time is a time to give thanks and celebrate with family and good friends :)
Duck curry is a delicacy and one of the favourite dishes of the Fiji Islands. When family and good friends get together this dish is cooked in appreciation. 
So this Christmas I decided to carry on the tradition of cooking this special dish for family and friends and surprise them :)
Duck curry also happens to be my best friend’s wife, Anj’s, favourite dish. No better time than Christmas to treat her to this island favourite. So I decided to I surprise her with this delicious dish this weekend.
Oh, you should have seen the look on her face when I arrived with the duck curry :) it was the most precious site I had seen in a long, long time.
 We had such a nice time; lots of good love and blessings were shared over this meal. That’s what friends and family are for, good times, bad times, duck curry times and chow times LOL
This is a dish that takes a lot of time preparing it so sitting down and enjoying it after the hard labour of love you have invested in it is worth every minute.
To fully appreciate the duck curry, you have got to truly appreciate it for its taste and the array of aromatic flavours this dish brings to the table.
Enjoy my friend just for you from your friend Sazzie :)