Cranberry BBQ Sauce Duck and Rice

Did anyone visit the Popular Bookstore warehouse stock clearance at The Starling? That happened last month and since I practically go to The Starling everyday, of course I dropped by. 

There were piles and piles of books everywhere (I love books!) and you can probably guess which type of books that I gravitate to. In spite of me telling myself time and time again "NO MORE COOKBOOKS!!!", I still found myself scouring for cookbooks at the 3-for-RM20 section.

Yeah, me and a few other enthusiastic aunties were digging and digging here and there, looking for books that would soon find their place on a bookshelf pregnant with other dust coated cookbooks (I am speaking for myself).

The trouble with this type of special offer is that once you found a book, you would have to find another two. Much time was spent looking for the other two books, making sure that they were what I really wanted and not merely to make up the numbers. 

So I happily queued up (it was a long queue on a Friday evening) for my purchase and when I got home, I do what I always do - flip the pages and ogle at the photos. Come the following week, I was again drawn to go up to the sale and I did the same thing again. Another 3 cookbooks for RM20. Haiz..........

And it happened again some two days later for the second time within the same week. This is some sort of serious addiction! You must be wondering where I am going with all this.

Well, one of the books I bought is Simple Asian One-Pot Meals and I one-potted a meal by modifying the Cranberry-Hoisin Chicken "n" Rice into this Cranberry BBQ Sauce Duck and Rice. 

I didn't have any Hoisin sauce at home so I substituted with Oriental BBQ Sauce which had been sitting in my fridge for a very long time. I also had about a cup of dried cranberries  leftover from Chinese New Year baking that I could use for this recipe. 

And of course, how convenient that I have frozen roasted duck in the freezer heh...heh...heh....

I have never used cranberries in savory meals let alone in a rice dish, so this was a revelation. The cranberries added a special something to the rice just like how raisins are so wonderful in rice dishes like Nasi Minyak. 

After having spent RM60 for 9 cookbooks, as penance, I promise to cook at least one or two recipes from the newly acquired books every week. How's that?

Cranberry BBQ Sauce Duck and Rice

Recipe source : Adapted from Simple Asian One-Pot Meals 

Ingredients :

- 3 cups basmati rice, soaked for 20 minutes and drained (or regular rice)

- 5.5 cups water

- 1/2 Chinese style roasted duck, debone and cut meat into cubes

- 4 cloves garlic, minced

- 5 shitake mushrooms, cut into cubes

- 1 cup dried cranberries

Seasoning (mix together)
- 2 tbsp Oriental BBQ sauce (I used Lee Kum Kee)
- 1 tbsp light soya sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soya sauce

Method :
1. Heat oil and saute garlic until aromatic.
2. Add mushrooms and stir fry for about 1 minute
3. Add rice and seasoning, stir to evenly coat the rice with seasoning.
4. Add roasted duck meat and cranberries. Stir to mix.
5. Transfer to rice cooker, add water and switch on the rice cooker to cook the rice like usual.