Name: Teriyaki Duck Donburi Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Anglo Japanese
Ingredients: 2 Duck Legs; 125ml (1/2 Cop) Water; 2 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce; 1 Tbsp Dark Soy Sauce; 4 Tbsp Rice Wine; 2 Tbsp Dark Brown Sugar; 85g (1/2 Cup) Long Grain White Rice; 50 g (1 carrot around 10-15cm) Carrot; 2 Spring onions; 1 Large or 2 Small Bok Choi (about 250g total); 1 Tbsp Sesame Seeds; 2 Eggs; Salt (For the Rice Water and Egg); 1/2 tsp Sesame Oil

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Teriyaki Duck Donburi, a beautiful Japanese rice bowl featuring slow-cooked teriyaki duck leg served with a fried egg, rice & bok choi.

It is a really morish and simple recipe you can make your own by swapping in and out ingredients.

Portrait image of a teriyaki duck donburi rice bowl with a fried egg

Teriyaki Duck Rice Bowl.

Duck makes a fairly regular appearance in these pages and this Teriyaki Duck recipe utilises slow cooked legs.

Much like my duck burger, the star of this rice bowl dish from Japan is slow-cooked duck leg.

This recipe comes from my mate Jo over at Every Nook and Cranny and it is a corker.

I’ve virtually known Jo for ages through a mutual real-world friend and her recipes are super. She pinged a private message me when she first published this a while ago.

Essentially a donburi is Japanese rice bowl, so some rice some veggies and some protein and off you go.

It’s very much the sort of dish that I would have ordered from Wagamama back in the UK.

Portrait overhead image of a teriyaki duck donburi rice bowl with a fried egg & bok choi

Knock Yourself Out With Veggies!

As for the vegetables in this dish, go to town use what you have that is good fresh and in season.

I am sure Jo will be along in the comments shortly to agree with me. Apart from the bok choi, which I recently found out she hates as much as I hate avocado.

Yes I hate avocado, A real honest to goodness who hates the darling of the food blogging world I’ll just leave you with the image that Avocado comes from the word āhuacatl, it means testicle. You are welcome!

However you should definitely ignore her, she is mad bok choi is perfect in this recipe.

When I say she is mad, I mean it, she is friends with me. Ergo batshit crazy!

You can steam/roast it in the duck cooking liquid for 10 minutes whilst you are preparing the rest of your ingredients.

The leaves will be lovely and wilted and the base should have a lovely texture and be just softened enough.

Portrait close up image of a teriyaki duck donburi rice bowl with a fried egg

How To Make Teriyaki Sauce.

For me, the core ingredients of teriyaki sauce are store cupboard essentials. As a result, I never buy store bought, particularly as making it at home is so easy.

The core ingredients for a teriyaki sauce are soy sauce, mirin and some form of sugar. These ingredients are then reduced to create the desired consistency.

I often vary the amounts of each to suit the dish I am making, it is essentially sweet sour and salty.

Classic combinations that work on so many dishes, here it is used as a coating for slow cooked duck legs.

But I use it in this recipe on some pan fried salmon. However, you can even go left field as I do in these teriyaki meatballs!

2 Servings

Teriyaki Duck Donburi Recipe

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Total Time: 2 hours

Inspired by Wagamama, this shredded teriyaki duck donburi is a beautiful bowl of tasty goodness, slow-cooked duck leg served over rice, and a host of other goodies.

Ingredients

2 Duck Legs
125ml (1/2 Cop) Water
2 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce
1 Tbsp Dark Soy Sauce
4 Tbsp Rice Wine
2 Tbsp Dark Brown Sugar
85g (1/2 Cup) Long Grain White Rice
50 g (1 carrot around 10-15cm) Carrot
2 Spring onions
1 Large or 2 Small Bok Choi (about 250g total)
1 Tbsp Sesame Seeds
2 Eggs
Salt (For the Rice Water and Egg)
1/2 tsp Sesame Oil

Instructions

Mix together the soy sauces, rice wine, water, and brown sugar.
Score the skin of the duck breast and place it in an ovenproof dish.
Pour the sauce mix over the duck and place in the oven at 180˚C or 350˚F for 90 minutes, basting the exposed duck with the sauce every 30 minutes.
Remove the duck legs from the oven and set aside for 10-12 minutes under foil.
Drain the fat from the cooking sauce and set aside.
Have a pan of boiling water ready for when the duck is ready to remove.
Season the water with a generous teaspoon of sea salt and add the rice.
Cut the bok choi into quarters.
Place the bok choi in the bowl dish that the duck legs have come out of, cover with foil.
Turn the heat off on the oven and put the bok choi dish into it and allow it to sit for 10 minutes.
Turn the heat down under the rice and simmer for 10 minutes or until the rice is slightly al dente, then drain through a fine-mesh sieve.
Allow the rice to sit for a minute to steam dry a little then fork through to fluff up.
Use a vegetable peeler to create ribbons of carrot.
Slice the spring onions at 45 degree angle 2-3mm thick.
Shred your duckand dress with some of the cooking liquid just before frying your eggs.
Fry your eggs, how you prefer them, for me, it needs a crispy fringe and a runny yolk.
Place the rice in the bottom of the bowl.
Add the carrots followed by the duck
Drain the bok choi and add then add the egg.
Finally, sprinkle with sesame seeds, spring onion, and a drizzle of toasted sesame oil.

Notes

Inspired by Teriyaki Duck by Every Nook and Cranny

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 626Total Fat: 19gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 13gCholesterol: 291mgSodium: 2045mgCarbohydrates: 64gFiber: 3gSugar: 13gProtein: 40g

Calorific details are provided by a third-party application and are to be used as indicative figures only.

Emily

Wednesday 3rd of June 2020

Can I add teriyaki source if I have it

Brian Jones

Thursday 4th of June 2020

Of course, just use it in place of the sauce that I create :) All commercial sauces are a little different though so you will just have to be careful that it does not burn or catch due to elevated sugar levels.

Bonnie

Monday 23rd of April 2018

Is that 905 calories for both serves? Or one serve?

Tuesday 24th of April 2018

Hey Bonnie that is per serving, it is the same across my site, I will try and work ou a way to add that to the field.

Grace

Friday 10th of November 2017

What do I do with the water!!?

Sorry, not sure how I missed that the water goes in with the sauce at the start, recipe updated :)

cakespy

Tuesday 25th of July 2017

haha on the bok choi. I'm not a huge fan either but in this dish I think I could handle it because everything looks so delicious!

Friday 28th of July 2017

A seem to be incovering a secret club of bok choi haters, shicking :o ;)

Just Jo

Monday 24th of July 2017

Lol you cheeky bugger you! Bok choi is the devil's vegetable as far as I a concerned and I won't be shifted on that one ;) The photos look superb Brian and I'm delighted you enjoyed the recipe enough to put it on your blog too!

Oh right, I am cheeky yet you call me lovely on line and everything, I'll not tolerate such slurs ;) Twas a super recipe really tasty that duck leg is fantastic, I can not confirm or deny whether we have roasted off more of it and used it as a filling for sandwiches whilst we were out and about last week :)