Knead the dough! Peking Duck Tacos

Knead Knead! Chinese green onion pancake is a common breakfast or snack in Asian countries. While Covid 19 pandemic has changed the way we used to live and to eat, let’s learn how to make dough into daily staple for our health and enjoyment. In this recipe, we sandwich chinese green onion pancakes with homemade Peking duck breast and shredded cucumber. To smoke the duck breast we need just a hot wok and equal portion of loose tea leaf, sugar and rice. Okay, let’s get started!

Peking Duck Tacos

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Spring Onion Pancakes

Ingredients:

200g All purpose flour

125ml Hot water

70g Chopped spring onion

2 tbs Duck fat

Handful of Salt

Steps:

1. Add flour into a mixing bowl, slowly add in hot water and knead the dough until soft and smooth about 15mins. Cover with wet towel and rest for 40mins.

2. Sprinkle flour on a work surface, divide the dough into 3 equal parts. Roll the dough into thin layer.

3. Spread spring onion oil on the layer. Roll the dough into cylinder and coil it up like a snail.

4. Roll the dough until thin again. Pan fry each sides for 2mins and set aside.

Peking Duck Breast

Ingredients:

1 pc Duck breast

1 tbs Chinese five spice 2 tbs Butter 2 cloves of garlic

Smoke pack:

50g loosen tea leaf

50g rice

50g sugar

Steps:

1. Score duck skin to help rendering the fat. Rub duck breast with Chinese five spice, salt and pepper.

2. Put seasoned duck breast on a cold pan and cook with butter and garlic until golden.

3. Mix loosen tea leaf, rice and sugar, wrap in aluminium foil. Put it into a hot wok on high heat for 3mins until smokey. Add seasoned duck breast and cook for 3 mins. Slice it.

Pickled cucumber

Ingredients:

100g Shredded Cucumber

80ml Water

80ml Rice Wine Vinegar

20g Sugar

4g Salt

Steps:

1. Combine water, rice wine vinegar, sugar and salt in a pot. Bring to boil and let it cool down.

2. Add shredded cucumber it and marinate for 15mins.

Garnish and seasoning

Hoi sin sauce

Sour cream

Handful of Fresh cilantro

Handful of Deep fried scallion