{"id":5463,"date":"2011-12-01T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2011-12-01T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:01:14","slug":"peking-duck-recipe-from-cakebread-cellars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/01\/peking-duck-recipe-from-cakebread-cellars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Peking Duck Recipe from Cakebread Cellars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The last time we were in California we enjoyed peking duck. We also visited Cakebread Cellars, a delightful friendly winery with impressive wines. Cakebread Cellars provided the recipe for Peking Duck below which may be a recipe you want to use for the coming holidays.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cheers! Kathy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Peking Duck with White Wine, Garlic and Picholine Olives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Serves 4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4 peking duck legs<br \/>\n\u00bd yellow onion, minced<br \/>\n1 carrot, minced<br \/>\n1 stalk celery, minced<br \/>\n3 cloves garlic, peeled<br \/>\n\u00bd c white wine<br \/>\n2 t tomato paste<br \/>\n3 sprigs thyme<br \/>\n1 bay leaf<br \/>\n1\u00bd c brown chicken stock<br \/>\n1 c picholine olives, pitted<br \/>\nsalt and pepper<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preheat over to 350 F.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Season duck legs with salt and pepper. Place duck legs skin side down in a wide bottom skillet over high heat, brown on both sides and remove from the skillet.<\/li>\n<li>Pour off all but two tablespoons of the duck fat and saut\u00e9 onion, carrot, celery and garlic to lightly caramelize.<\/li>\n<li>Deglaze with white wine and scrape the brown bits and glaze off the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce wine by half. Add tomato paste, thyme and bay leaf. Return duck legs skin side up to pan along with the chicken stock and olives. Stock should cover the duck three quarters of the way.<\/li>\n<li>Bring to a simmer, cover and place in the middle of the oven.\u00a0 Cook for one hour until duck is starting to pull away from the drumstick.<\/li>\n<li>Uncover and continue cooking in the oven for 15-20 minutes until duck is tender and beginning to brown.<\/li>\n<li>Place pan under broiler for a minute to crispen the skin.<\/li>\n<li>Skim the sauce of any rendered fat and spoon over duck.<\/li>\n<li>Serve with olive oil crushed potatoes and\/or saut\u00e9ed escarole.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Enjoy with a glass of Cakebread Cellars Napa Valley Merlot.<\/p>\n<p>Recipe provided by <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakebread.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Cakebread Cellars<\/span><\/a><\/span> in Napa Valley, California<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Peking Duck Recipe from Cakebread Cellars\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=5463\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time we were in California we enjoyed peking duck. We also visited Cakebread Cellars, a delightful friendly winery with impressive wines. Cakebread Cellars provided the recipe for Peking Duck below which may be a recipe you want to use for the coming holidays. Cheers! Kathy Peking Duck with White Wine, Garlic and Picholine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[1612,1613,15,1013,2468,583,98],"class_list":["post-5463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-and-food","tag-cakebread","tag-cakebread-cellars","tag-california","tag-napa-valley","tag-peking-duck","tag-recipe","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5468,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions\/5468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}