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Peking duck at home

Name: Peking duck at home
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 small duck about 1.6 kg whole duck; 1 tsp chinese five spice powder; 2 tsp salt; 2 tbsp maltose is traditional honey; 1 tbsp vinegar; Water, for glazing and dough; 1 2/3 cups maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 2 tsp sesame oil; 1 in batons cucumber; 4 in fine strips spring onion (green onion, scallion); 4 tbsp or sweet bean sauce hoisin sauce

Lacquered duck, thin pancakes, cucumber and sweet sauce. A banquet you can roll yourself.

180 minTime

60 gProtein each

mildSpice

Lacquer and pancakes2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayLacquered roast duck with pancakes and sweet sauce.

The original

882kcalsame

60 gproteinsame

3 gfibresame

180minutessame

Peking duck, adapted for a home oven.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Duck1 small duck, about 1.6 kg whole

Chinese five spice powder1 tsp

Salt2 tsp

Honey2 tbsp, maltose is traditional

Vinegar1 tbsp

Waterfor glazing and dough

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1⅔ cups

Sesame oil2 tsp

Cucumber1, in batons

Spring onion (green onion, scallion)4, in fine strips

Hoisin sauce4 tbsp, or sweet bean sauce

Method

6 steps

1Rub the cavity with salt and five spice. Pour boiling water over the skin until it tightens, pat dry and refrigerate uncovered overnight.
2Brush the skin with honey and vinegar dissolved in a little hot water, and dry again for an hour.
3Roast on a rack at 200 C for 30 minutes, then 180 C for about 50 minutes until the skin is deep mahogany.
4Meanwhile make a dough with the flour and 120 ml boiling water. Roll small discs, brush one with sesame oil, stack another on top, roll thin and dry fry both sides, then peel apart.
5Rest the duck 10 minutes, then carve the skin and meat into thin slices.
6Serve with pancakes, cucumber, spring onion and hoisin to roll at the table.

Serve it like this

Fan the sliced duck on a warm platter with pancakes in a steamer basket, small bowls of hoisin, cucumber and spring onion, and let everyone roll.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Beijing

Peking duck at home

Lacquered duck, thin pancakes, cucumber and sweet sauce. A banquet you can roll yourself.

180 minTime

60 gProtein each

mildSpice

Lacquer and pancakes2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayLacquered roast duck with pancakes and sweet sauce.

The original

882kcalsame

60 gproteinsame

3 gfibresame

180minutessame

Peking duck, adapted for a home oven.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Duck1 small duck, about 1.6 kg whole

Chinese five spice powder1 tsp

Salt2 tsp

Honey2 tbsp, maltose is traditional

Vinegar1 tbsp

Waterfor glazing and dough

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1⅔ cups

Sesame oil2 tsp

Cucumber1, in batons

Spring onion (green onion, scallion)4, in fine strips

Hoisin sauce4 tbsp, or sweet bean sauce

Method

6 steps

1Rub the cavity with salt and five spice. Pour boiling water over the skin until it tightens, pat dry and refrigerate uncovered overnight.
2Brush the skin with honey and vinegar dissolved in a little hot water, and dry again for an hour.
3Roast on a rack at 200 C for 30 minutes, then 180 C for about 50 minutes until the skin is deep mahogany.
4Meanwhile make a dough with the flour and 120 ml boiling water. Roll small discs, brush one with sesame oil, stack another on top, roll thin and dry fry both sides, then peel apart.
5Rest the duck 10 minutes, then carve the skin and meat into thin slices.
6Serve with pancakes, cucumber, spring onion and hoisin to roll at the table.

Serve it like this

Fan the sliced duck on a warm platter with pancakes in a steamer basket, small bowls of hoisin, cucumber and spring onion, and let everyone roll.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Peking duck at home

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

Peking duck at home

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

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