This Crispy Skin Roast Duck Lettuce Wrap is a Perfect Party Appetizer! It’s an explosion of flavors, textures and colors in every bite. Best part? You can make most of it ahead so you can spend more time with your guests. I guarantee your guests will beg to learn how to make this.
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I was inspired to make this Crispy Skin Roast Duck Lettuce Wrap after a recent visit to an upscale Asian Restaurant in Miami. It was such a disappointing experience on 3 counts: the duck was over sauced so you couldn’t even taste the duck; the sauce dripped onto a flimsy lettuce leaf; the lettuce leaf was so small, it couldn’t “wrap” over the duck.
A messy experience but it motivated me to make my own version. I’m so happy you’ll able to avoid those mistakes when you make your own Crispy Skin Roast Duck Lettuce Wrap.
I had a quarter of a frozen Chinese Roast Duck in the freezer and that’s what gave me the idea to crisp up the duck skin separately in my wok.
Ingredients and Dishes You’ll Need…Enough for 4
Presentation
Have fun expressing your personal flair with a spectacular platter. Romaine or Ice Berg Lettuce are best. Put nuts in bowl with wood spoon. Use what you like but chop small, mine were peanuts.
Roast Duck
Use a bigger bowl for the duck and vegetables.
Buy ready cooked duck from Maple Leaf Farms (not sponsored) or one of those extremely succulent hanging roast duck from an Asian market or restaurant.
Duck Preparations
Shred the duck meat. Keep the duck bones for making broth. Separate the duck skin and slice into strips.
Vegetables
Cube crunchy veggies like multi colored bell peppers, chayote or jicama or both, chopped scallions, garlic and ginger.
Dash of San-J Tamari and Medium Drinking Sherry are all that’s needed to season the vegetables and duck.
Hoisin Sauce Dip (see links below)
Combine these really well in your small serving bowl with a wood spoon…
1/2 jar of Koon Chun Hoisin Sauce
Dash of Sesame Oil
Huy Fong Chili Garlic Sauce to taste
Half lime juice
Fry Duck Skin
NOTE: please don’t use non stick pans, they are not safe for high heat cooking.
Use a cast iron wok or stainless steel pan on medium heat. No oil is needed. Add in all the duck skin. Keep moving them around with spatula, otherwise they’ll burn.
Crispy Duck Skin is DONE!
Scoop out duck fat into a glass bowl, leaving about a tablespoon in the wok for frying the vegetables.
Fry Vegetables and Duck
Heat the duck fat till shimmering
Add in garlic and ginger
Add all the vegetables in
Add shredded duck
Add dash of San-J tamari and medium drinking sherry
Guest Plates
Round up some long plates for guests to make their own lettuce wrap.
Now for the fun part, showing your guests how to eat this Crispy Skin Roast Duck Lettuce Wrap!
Slather Hoisin Sauce along length of Romain Lettuce Leaf, then add the duck and vegetables, sprinkle a few peanuts and top with crispy duck skin. Close one end to prevent the filling from falling out.
WOW, DE-LIGHT-FUL!
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P.S. I make a signature Rainbow Lettuce Wrap with ground turkey in my cooking classes and it’s always a big hit.
As always, I want to encourage you to Cook Like a Wok Star! This means putting your creative spin on it, using ingredients on hand, not worry so much about exact measurements BUT keep tasting so you can adjust flavors to suit your taste buds and make your dish full of FLAVOR, TEXTURE and COLOR.
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