My favourite dishes are usually pretty easy, and after flipping through Nigella's Nigella Express I found this tasty recipe, it's super simple, we added wraps with cucumber and spring onion to this to make a real meal out of it!
You will need:
A duck
Heat your oven to 170 degrees celcius, and pop the duck in the oven, leaving it for 5 1/2 hours, or you can leave it for 4 hours and vamp up the heat to 220 for the last half hour.
I scoured the internet for a recipe to make authentic pancakes, if you have the patience of a saint go for this, if not use tortillas or get some Chinese pancakes from your local Chinese shop, but these pancakes are quite tasty with the duck.
To make about 16:
225g plain flour
175ml boiling water
2 tbsp. toasted sesame oil
Sift in your flour, and create a well in the middle of the pile the pour in the boiling water.
Now, I'd use a spoon for this because it didn't occur to me quite how hot the dough would be, you also might need a little extra water if the dough feels dry.
Knead until the dough is smooth then roll it out into a sausage about 40cm long, mine is so long because I was doing double quantities.
Divide the sausage up into 16 and roll them into little balls.
Now take one ball and dip the end in the sesame oil, pop it on top of another ball and roll out with a rolling pin.
Mum carved the duck and we served it with the usual cucumber and spring onions, and of course hoi sin sauce.
It was deeelish, I had so many that I was actually in pain, but the best thing is how easy it is, especially if you buy your own pancakes!
