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Hoisin Style Duck

Hoisin Style whole Duck recipe

A whole Duck is clearly a budget buster for us. But this had been dropped and the packaging was split. So £2.49 with the dreaded Yellow Sticker saw me skipping home. OK perhaps not actually skipping……

We made a Plum and Ginger Chutney a few months ago which has been sat in the cupboard and made a good foundation for the Hoisin style sauce. ( http://www.eatwellonuc.org.uk/index.php/recipes/336-plum-ginger-chutney )

Obviously you can but ‘Real’ Hoisin Sauce!

The original Chutney had the following ingredients:-

1 Hand of Ginger
1Kg  of Plums
2 large cloves of Garlic
A handful of fresh Coriander, chopped
2 Red Onions, chopped
6 Birds Eye Chillies
1 bunch of fries Chives
1 tsp Turmeric
White distilled Vinegar
4 tbst Sugar
Salt
Oil

Sue added the following:-

Five Spice
Star Anise
Soy Sauce
Honey
Black Bean Sauce

Method:-

(1) In a pan heat all the sauce ingredients.
(2) Allow to cool and then pasty half of the sauce over the Duck and place in the fridge covered for a few hours.
(3) Heat the oven to 160c.
(4) Cover the Duck in foil and cook for an hour covered.
(5) Remove the foil and spoon the sauce over the Duck and cook for a further 30 to 40 minutes.
(6) Reheat the remaining sauce in a pan and add the cooking juices from the Duck.
(7) Portion and serve the Duck and point the sauce from the pan over.

Served with stir-fried vegetables, boiled Rice and fried Pak Choi this was really good and actually under budget!
 

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Brunch Burger

Ummm – Don’t ask! Actually there is a strange login behind these rather excessive burgers and no we didn’t eat them all in one sitting. We’ll be snacking all day I’m guessing….

We don’t throw anything away unless it’s totally dead. But this means that the freezer slowly gets clogged up with bits and bobs we’ve saved. So in the hope of clearing a bit of space we went rummaging / freezer mining. Here’s the list of (Uninspiring) ingredients we extracted…

Freezer Finds:-

1 pack of pre-made Gluten free buns.
½ a pie worth of Pork Pie filling with Beetroot juice.
A forgotten box of Potato Waffles.
A pack of Polish Smoked Ham.

Not a very promising collection of ingredients. But there was the foundation of The Brunch Burger lurking in there somewhere….

So with the addition of a bit of fresh minced Beef, fresh Salad, some grated Cheese, a couple of fried Eggs, a bit of left over Chilli sauce, some hand cut chips and a few home made Onion ring - we set to work.

The assembly! (This is hardly a recipe, as you would know it!)

(1) Sue made some Thousand Island sauce.
(2) I coated and pre-fried the Onion Rings.
(3) Sue hand pressed both the Pork and Beef burgers and put them in the fridge to rest.
(4) I Cut and pre-fried the Chips.
(5) Sue fried the burgers and put them under in the oven with the grated Cheese over the top to melt.
(6) Sue cut the Ham very thin then grilled it.
(7) Assembly commenced!
(8) Sue grilled the buns.
(9) She spread the Thousand Island sauce over the bottom half bun.
(10) Added Salad and sliced Tomatoes.
(11) Next came the fried Waffle with heated Chilli sauce.
(12) The burgers with melted Cheese were added next.
(13) Pop the fried Egg and top bun on and secure everything with a skewer.
(14) Add the Onion rings on top and server with chips and home made Coleslaw.

Sorry this reads more like a Haynes manual for a 1960s Mini. But nobody in their right mind is likely to follow this as a recipe really!


 

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