Roast Duck Breast Rice Bowl

If you’re a fan of fast and easy but terrifically delicious recipes, this roast duck rice bowl is guaranteed to make you dance with joy.

I love duck. I especially love Chinese-style roast duck. I enjoy the ritual of smearing a pancake with sauce, laying duck skin on the sauce, topping the meat with cucumber and scallions, and feeling the duck fat moisten my lips as I take my first bite.

But a whole duck is often too much for a family of four. So, when I get a craving and not everyone’s home to partake of a whole bird, a breast fillet is the answer.

Roast Duck Breast Rice Bowl

Recipe by Connie Veneracion

Sear a duck breast, skin side down, in a hot pan then flip. Finish cooking in the oven. Rest, slice, arrange over rice, drizzle with a tasty no-cook sauce and garnish with scallions.

Prep Time 2 mins

Cook Time 20 mins

Resting time 10 mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Asian

Servings 2 people

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Ingredients

  

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• 1 boneless duck breast
• salt
• pepper

For the sauce

• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons chili garlic sauce available in the Asian section of groceries and supermarkets
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar

To serve

• cooked rice
• finely sliced scallions

Instructions

 

Roast the duck breast (click for photos)

• Preheat the oven to 375F.
• Wipe the duck breast dry with paper towels.
• Heat an oven-safe frying pan.
• Lay the duck breast in the hot pan, skin side down (it will sizzle!) and, over high heat, cook until the skin is nicely browned and fat has been rendered.
• Flip the duck breast and sear the other side.
• Transfer the frying pan with the duck to the oven and roast the duck for 8 to 15 minutes depending on how rare or cooked you want it. Personally, I lean toward the 15-minute cooking time.

Make the sauce

• While the duck is in the oven, mix the ingredients for the sauce.
• Take the duck out of the oven, transfer to a chopping board and cover loosely with foil. Allow to rest for 10 minutes before slicing.

Assemble the rice bowl

• Slice the duck breast and divide into portions.
• Half fill bowls with cooked rice (see also: how to cook rice), arrange the duck slices on top, drizzle the sauce over the duck and sprinkle with sliced scallions.

Notes

Updated from a recipe originally published in June 8, 2019

Keyword Duck, Rice Bowl

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