Amazingly Easy crispy duck, plum sauce and pancakes
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FULL RECIPE
Crispy Duck
1 tbsp honey
2 tsp Chinese five-spice powder
Half duck
Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 3 165C/325F. Take a large roasting tin and place a wire rack inside.
Trim the fat from around the parsons nose
Score the skin of the duck in a criss-cross pattern (breast side) with a sharp knife.
Season with five spice and place the duck on the rack in the roasting tin.
Place in the oven for 3 to 3 ½ hours. Turn the duck over every hour
After the duck has cooked for 3hours, take it out of the oven and turn the oven temperature up to Gas Mark 6 200C/400F
Turn the duck so that it’s breast-side-up again and spoon honey & 5 spice over the top of the duck
Place back in the oven for 20 minutes until the glaze has gone dark brown and caramelised.
Take the duck out of the oven. Leave to rest for 10 minutes, then place on a large plate and shred all the meat using two forks.
Plum sauce:
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 red onion peeled and chopped
1 tbs stem ginger in syrup (or 1 tsp root ginger grated)
6 cloves garlic minced
600 g ripe plums de-stoned and cut into small (1 cm pieces) - no need to take the skin off
6 tbsp dark soy sauce
4 tbsp muscovado sugar
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 tsp 5 spice
1 chilli
Heat the oil in a medium sized sauce pan.
Add the onion, garlic & chilli and sauté on low for 5 mins
Add in the rest of the ingredients, turn up the heat and bring to a gentle bubble. Turn the heat back down and allow everything to simmer for 20 minutes. Give it a stir every so often.
After 20 minutes, turn off the heat and blend the mixture in the pan using a hand blender.
Pancakes
300g plain flour
Rapeseed oil, for brushing
While the sauce is cooking, put the flour, 250ml boiling water and a pinch of salt in a bowl and mix together until it forms a dough. When cool enough to handle, knead until smooth. Divide it into 12 - 15 balls and roll each one out as thin as you can. Brush a frying pan with the oil and cook each pancake over a medium heat for 30 secs each side or until cooked but not browned.
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Omg!! Hugh, Fiona, You’ve reached 10k on KZread! What a fantastic achievement just as 2021 enters. So happy for you both, this sends a very positive vibe and I hope it bodes well for 2021. 👏
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Keona! We are still surprised (and delighted) that people enjoy seeing our simple life.
Thank you so much for this. Been wanting to know how to do this from scratch at home for donkeys. Love your videos. Stay safe.
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Sarah! Have a lovely Christmas. Hugh
I love all your content. In North America, that pancake would be called a tortilla. Keep up the great work, thank you.
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
I do make both flour & corn tortillas. My flour tortillas have a slightly different recipe but I suspect that's just my preference!
Thanks for showing this. That looks fantastic. I love duck dishes. Merry Christmas.
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
And to you Ford! Have a great one.
I want a farm so badly! ... I'm much too old now, but we had farmers in the family. Loved going to the farms. I don't want to drive a tractor as they do on real farms. I want a mini-farm with chickens and geese... Oh! I'm going to have to trap a duck someplace for that recipe.
@mrs.crabtree527
3 жыл бұрын
I have never heard of Chinese 5 spice ... I'm in the USA, I wonder if we can get that here.
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
For sheer pleasure, gardening & raising livestock for your family is hard to beat! I'm old but still enjoy it!
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
If you can't get it, it's eady enough to mix your own, you can find the recipe here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-spice_powder
Hi, nice video. What a coincidence we had a whole duck for our Christmas eve dinner. Rubbed with dry spices steamed then oven roasted. Yummy.
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
You can't beat it
Love the T shirt -- I'd like to see a country plaid version! 🤶
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
I dream of making British wool garments!
Parson`s nose, you say? We called it "the part that goes over the fence last". I loved that tail meat. That, and the wings are the best for snacking. Chicken, duck, wild game birds or turkey, doesn`t matter.
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Fiona would agree, she is a huge fan of wings!
Top recipe content as per usual!
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Alan. Merry Christmas my friend!
Not just a great duck recipe but cooking tips galore. I find commercial plum sauce somewhat lacking. I appreciate the recipe. Only, it's winter here, so I might not be able find fresh plums. As duck is one of my favorites and your recipe is very easy, I am very excited to try it. Many thanks for posting. May you and yours have a very Happy Christmas and Happy New Year. ⛄🎄🍾🥂
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Michael! The sauce pressure cans well & freezes too so you are right, Autumn is the time to make it! Merry Christmas 🎄!
I’m hungry now 😋 will have to try this, it’s one of our favourites.
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Its surprisingly simple. Have a good holiday guys
@maesnewydd-permaculture8415
3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishCountryLife thank you, I hope you both have a good one too 🙂
Gonna have a go at this for New Years. Merry Christmas Hugh and Fiona, hope next year proves great for you and all you do. Thank you for all your posts this year, regards Rob & Suzy
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you both, have a fabulous Christmas!
Looks delicious, made me hungry now 😋
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Sosaidh, its nice because its even simpler than it looks! Hugh
Loved the video! Thank you for making!
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Ma'am, that means a huge amount coming from you! Have a lovely Christmas. Hugh
Great video, Hugh. Gonna try!
@EnglishCountryLife
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly it's amazingly easy ( and a really impressive, delicious dish at the end)!
Looks tasty! Many thanks for all the great videos this year, learnt many useful things. Merry Christmas to you both.
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
And to you Trev, hope you have a good one!
This is exactly what we’re having for dinner tonight! How did you know.xx😂
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
So glad! Merry Christmas Susan!
@susanlansdell863
3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishCountryLife and you! Have a great one.xx
Merry Christmas Fiona and Hugh, wish you good health, love and prosperity in your lovely smallholding for many years to come. Hugh, very informative and entertaining video as always. I have a request if that's OK with you. I am very interested in old, traditional, Victorian style festive recipes. For example, traditional meat preparation for different events like, Christmas, New Year and other festive, when traditional English families meet and celebrate together. Thank you!
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas! I'll certainly try to make a few videos to cover it. We do have one series on bacon making that may be of interest kzread.info/head/PLDluIIoNPsle_0IV4sryTi76-pwXOP_PP
fantastic video, they have all been brilliant and very enjoyable and a lot of very useful tips, Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year 🎅🏻🤶🏻🎄👍🏻
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Darren - Merry Christmas!
Hello Hugh, I love how you tease Fiona in this video. “If you’re Fiona... you like more filling than pancake” lol. Are you left handed? I can’t tell as most of the time you’re using your left hand then you use your right hand every so often. Hugh you’re so good at so many things, cooking, DIY, gardening, video making, presenting etc you make it look easy... it give me hope to try. Fiona he is a keeper. 🤫
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Keona, I write right handed but do use my left hand a lot (my father was a leftie). Sometimes whilst filming I have to reach around the camera so use whichever hand is easiest! Happy New Year! Hugh
tasty as, lovely.
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Happy New Year Michael 🙂
This is amazing cos the recipe for the pancakes is also the same for making gyoza wrappers which I been making since lockdown lol awesome recipe and video as always
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Do you have a favourite gyoza recipe? Always keen to try new variations!
@pumpkineater69seven17
3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishCountryLife hi yeah one I was gonna do would be a sooped up version of the traditional pork and prawns but with shredded slow cooked pork than the usual added when the porks cooled down chopped prawns already cooked added along with finely chopped cabbage,chilli ginger garlic soy sauce oyster sauce (watch the salt levels with the two sauces and seasoning)and sesame oil and finely chopped onions and grated carrots and I think that's it put the mixture in the wrappers cold if your gonna store them freeze them straight away as they stick to plates if left in the fridge I had some disasters lol hope this helped
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
@@pumpkineater69seven17 Sounds great!
P.s. YUM!
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
I get my ducks from Hyde Park ;)
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine what they eat?
@RussellChapman99
3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishCountryLife I was being a bit tongue in cheek. The ducks in St James's park probably have a better diet.
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
@@RussellChapman99 Well quite. You don't want a duck raised on crack cocaine and cider. Sooner or later you'll get the bill.
@RussellChapman99
3 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishCountryLife I wondered why they were waddling along so quickly
Hello. Have you ever parboiled duck before roasting?
@EnglishCountryLife
3 жыл бұрын
Hi, no, that's not something we've tried