Peking duck at home
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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

4 servings
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
  1. 1Rub the cavity with salt and five spice. Pour boiling water over the skin until it tightens, pat dry and refrigerate uncovered overnight.
  2. 2Brush the skin with honey and vinegar dissolved in a little hot water, and dry again for an hour.
  3. 3Roast on a rack at 200 C for 30 minutes, then 180 C for about 50 minutes until the skin is deep mahogany.
  4. 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.
  5. 5Rest the duck 10 minutes, then carve the skin and meat into thin slices.
  6. 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.

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What goes with Peking duck at home: a bread or rice, a side, something to drink and something sweet.

Bread or rice Mantou120 min
Bread or rice Yunnan pineapple rice60 min
On the side Smashed cucumber salad15 min
On the side Egg drop soup15 min
To drink Doujiang40 min
Something sweet Tang yuan45 min
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