Balinese Spiced Duck

I posted this recipe on my gaps blog but thought that my homeschool friends might also like it - And it is so delicious you wont want to miss it!!

This is one of my all-time favourite recipes and I wanted to share it with you all as it is so simple and a delight to the taste buds. I got this one off the web - one of the recipe sites, not sure which one.

Ingredients

8 duck portions
50g dessicated coconut
3/4 cup coconut milk
Deep fried onions and salad leaves (I caramelize our onions and we serve the Duck with Steamed or Stir-fried veges).

For the spice paste

6 shallots (I use 12 spring onions)
2 cloves garlic sliced
2.5 cm fresh ginger root pealed and sliced
1 cm galangal peeled and sliced
1/2 tsp ground turmeric
1-2 red chillies seeded and sliced
4 macadamias or 8 almonds1 tsp coriander seeds dry fried

Method

Whiz the ingredients for paste in a food processor until a paste forms.
Rub over the duck pieces and marinate for 3-4 hours or over night (I often skip the marinating as I forget!)

Preheat oven to 140 C.
Shake off the paste and mix the coconut milk into it
Place duck pieces into a glass baking dish and pour over the sauce
Cover and cook for 1 hour (longer if you are using legs and wings - I use breasts with skin on and 1 hour is plenty)
Dry fry the dessicated coconut until crisp and brown
Remove cover from duck
Turn the oven up to 190 C and cook 20-30 mins brown and crispy. I usually leave it longer than this
Sprinkle desiccated coconut over meat

Serve with caramelized onion and stirfry veges and drizzle with I often add a tsp of salt and a tablespoon of honey to the sauce at the end to boost its flavour!

GAPS Recipes

I have been scouring the internet for GAPS recipes, because although I am only on intro my 16 year old son and my hubby are doing full GAPS and I wanted to offer a decent variety of foods (mainly to stop the complaining that was emitting from said teenager!).

So Im posting a few recipes that I have found and tried over the last week, and one that I made up when I needed to use up some left over ingredients.

Ill post them in separate blog entries and that way they will be easier to find under the labels (for future reference).

The first recipe is from Grainfree Foodies- The original recipe is here:(http://grainfreefoodie.blogspot.com/2009/04/banana-caramel-sticky-buns.html)

These girls are kitchen geniuses. I use a lot of their recipes. They call these tasty morsels "buns" I have renamed them muffins as that is what they more closely resemble in my opinion.

I have also tweeked the recipe slightly. We dont eat coconut flour at present as I have heard it is high carb so I subsituted almond meal for the coconut flour. These muffins are the most delectible GAPS foods I have ever tasted. Not quite like a sticky date pudding but close.

Banana Caramel Sticky Muffins

Ingredients for buns

1 Large very ripe banana, mashed
6 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup melted butter or coconut oil
1/2 cup honey
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups almond meal
1/4 tsp. salt

Preheat oven to 180 C.

Mix all ingredients with a wire whisk. Pour into a well-greased muffin tin or use silicone liners (I used cupcake papers. They did stick a little bit so you could spray some coconut oil on the papers if you find this an issue)

Ingredients for topping

• 1 cup chopped crispy pecans (from Nourishing Traditions or WAPF)
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cup butter
• 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1 Tablespoon almond meal
• 2 Tablespoons shredded coconut

Mix all ingredients for topping with a fork. Crumble topping on buns.

Bake for 20-25 minutes, until cooked through.