Crispy Duck Pancakes With Plum Sauce
  1. To make the crispy duck, dust the duck legs in the Chinese five-spice powder.

  2. Bury the legs in the salt, weigh it down and chill in the fridge overnight.

  3. Preheat the oven to 170C/150C Fan/Gas 3.

  4. Rinse the legs and place in the duck fat with the spices, garlic, ginger and bay leaf. Cover everything with the fat.

  5. Cook for 1½ hours and then leave to cool in the fat.

  6. Increase the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7.

  7. Cook the duck legs, skin-side down, in a hot frying pan.

  8. Roast in the oven for 20 minutes until crispy.

  9. Shred the duck with two forks or shred the duck and crisp up again in a frying pan. Set aside.

  10. To make the plum sauce, place all of the ingredients and 5 tablespoons water in a saucepan.

  11. Bring to the boil and simmer until all of the fruit has collapsed and reduced, this will take around 20 minutes.

  12. Push through a sieve into a bowl and season with salt and pepper.

  13. To serve, place the duck, sauce, cucumber, mooli and spring onion in the pancakes. Roll and enjoy.

Course🍽️Main Course

Diets🌾Gluten-free🥩Carnivore...

Category🥞Pancakes

Cuisine🇨🇳Chinese

Occasions🍽️Dinner Party🎉Special Occasion

Season🔁Year-round

DifficultyHard ⏰ 3h

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