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Title: Pet Palo (Steamed Duck)
Yield: 4 Servings

Ingredients

      1    pet palo (steamed duck)
      1    [thai with chinese
      1    influences]
      1    ============================
      1    =========================
      1    this recipe is to steam a 4
      1 lb duck. as described here it
      1    is best
      1    cooked in one of the
      1    combination electric
      1    steamer/pans popular in
      1    thailand: these have a
      1    largish pan that can be used
      1    as a frying
      1    pan/skillet or as a
      1    sauce-pan, and on this a
      1    steamer large enough
      1    for the duck sits. the whole
      1    is plugged into the mains
      1    electricity
      1    and is elegant enough to
      1    place on the table. i leave
      1    it to the
      1    ingenuity of the reader to
      1    work out how to do this in
      1    other
      1    equiment

Instructions

Maggi Sauce (a thick black sauce made by the Swiss company Maggi) is
now a traditional ingredient in many Thai dishes.

BASE SAUCE:

Mix equal parts of Maggi seasoning suace, mushroom soy sauce, Oyster
sauce, and dark sweet soy sauce, varying the quantities slightly
according to taste, to make up three cups of base sauce.

SAUCE: (Additional Ingredients)

6 cups water
8-12 cloves garlic, crushed or minced
1/4 cup chopped cilantro/coriander (including the roots if poss)
1-2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon fish sauce (this is the "salty" flavor - to taste
3 cups base sauce (above)
1/2 cup palm sugar.

METHOD:

Place the water in the base of the steamer and bring to a boil. Add
the other ingredients, and stir until it is boiling then reduce heat
to simmering point. Put the duck in the top container and steam for
35-40 minutes. At which point the duck should be nearly cooked. Turn
off the heat, and allow the duck to cool until you can handle it
(professional chefs with asbestos hands probably don't need to let
it cool at all), remove the legs and wings, then fillet the duck.
Place all the meat, the wings and the legs in the sauce, and keep
the bones to make soup stock.

Place the base pan on the table with the lid in place, and about 15
minutes before you want to eat switch it back on. This will complete
the cooking and allow the meat to absorb the flavor of the sauce.
Provide a pair of chopsticks so the diners can serve themselves. You
will also need a small ladle to serve the sauce.

Serve with chillis marinated in dark sweet soy and fresh ground
ginger as condiments, and either steamed jasmine rice or sticky
rice.

FOOTNOTE:

This is how we serve it to an adult table -- when children are
present we serve the meat to each diner and decant the sauce into a
sauceboat: it prevents fights over the legs!

From: "Colonel I. F. K. Philpott"
From: Sam Lefkowitz Date: 03-14-96

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