: How do I get paper-skin duck breast? I want to make Cantonese-style roasted duck but a whole-duck is too much for me and I have only a small oven so I want to try using the thigh or breast only. My problem is I can't make

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How do I get paper-skin duck breast?
I want to make Cantonese-style roasted duck but a whole-duck is too much for me and I have only a small oven so I want to try using the thigh or breast only.

My problem is I can't make the layer of fat underneath the skin melt down. With a
whole-duck recipe you roast the duck at medium-high temp for 2-4 hours,
but because I use only part of the duck, if I do that the meat-side will dry out.

Here is what I tried:

Using fingers, separate skin and meat (still intact end-part), stripes diamond pattern
Brine duck part for 1-2 hour (with salt, sugar, water, soy sauce, ginger, garlic)
Boil water with distilled vinegar, honey, red coloring then pour over skin-side, skin tighten up
Rub with baking powder, uncover in fridge to dry the skin
I tried this step two ways:

first time I roasted with convection oven 140 c, still fatty skin
second,used aluminum foil wrapped all over meat-part, uncover the skin-part in fridge 48 hours, roasted, not better than first one, skin still thick but cracking (skin too dry?)

How can I get the skin to be thin and the fat to melt?

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