Peking
Duck
Ingredients:
1 duck
3 tbsps honey
2 cloves
2 stalks spring onions, chopped
2 half cups water
2 in. piece ginger
1 cucumber
For dough:
3 cups flour
2 tbs sesame seed oil
3 tbs Soya sauce
1 tsp. sesame oil
1 cup hot water
2 tbs cold water
1 tsp. sugar
serves 4-5
Method:
Clean the duck and hang in a cool and dry place
for a few hours. Put water in a pan with honey,
ginger, cloves and chopped spring onions. Bring
to boil for 5 minutes. Hold the duck by the neck
ant soak it in the mixture. Slowly pour the sauce
into the duck. Lift and hang for 2 more hours.
Strain the mixture and keep aside the ginger onions,
cloves and spring onions. prepare the batter.
Sieve the flour in a large .Bowl and add in water.
Knead for 5 minutes until smooth. Cover with a
moist cloth and leave for 15 minutes. Roll out
the dough to 1 cm thickness and cut into lengths
of 6 cm. Spread each piece with sesame oil and
put another piece on top. Roll it flat. Fry the
pieces in a non-stick pan without oil until both
sides are evenly browned. When all the pieces
are cooked bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Roast
the duck and put the ginger, cloves and spring
onions inside it. Roast for 1 hour. Make the dip.
Mix sesame oil, soya sauce, 2 tbsps water and
1 tsp. sugar together. Bring to boil. Cut into
small pieces and serve with the dip together with
slices of cucumber and the pancakes.
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