Moo Shu Duck

Ingredients:

for the duck:
1 half dozen lb duck
zest of i lemon
2 tablespoons 5 spice powder
1 1/2 tablespoons ginger powder
1 1/2 tablespoons salt
1 tablespoon night chocolate-brown sugar
1/2 tablespoon freshly soil dark pepper

for the filling:
1/3 loving cup dried tiger lily buds
half dozen dried cloud ear mushrooms
5 dried dark or shiitake mushrooms
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 carrot, cutting into matchsticks
1 bunch greenish onions, cutting into 1 inch chunks
iv cups shredded napa cabbage
1/2 loving cup chicken or duck stock
2 tablespoons shaoxing wine
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed alongside an equal amount of water
1 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil

for the omelet:
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon sesame oil
1/4 loving cup diced greenish onion

for the pancakes:
2 cups flour
3/4 loving cup boiling water
sesame oil


Directions:
Preheat oven to 325. In a modest bowl, whisk together the zest, ginger, sugar, salt, pepper in addition to 5 spice powder. Rub the dry out rub into the peel of the duck. Place the duck on a roasting rack on a roasting pan in addition to roast for 2 hours or until cooked though*. Allow to cool slightly in addition to thus shred the core in addition to laid aside.

Add the flour in addition to boiling H2O to a boil. Whisk together. Flour a clean, apartment surface. Knead the dough until smooth, 3-5 minutes. Cover inwards plastic twine in addition to permit sit down for 30-40 minutes. Roll the dough into a subway scheme most 1 1/2 inches thick. Cut into xvi equal pieces. Use the palm of your manus to flatten each i slightly. Brush the transcend of one-half the rounds alongside sesame oil. Top alongside a 2nd pancake. Roll them together until they are 5-6 inches wide. Stack, covered alongside a damped textile until ready to heat. Heat a nonstick pan in addition to develop each twosome for most 2 minutes on each side. Separate them into private pancakes. Wrap the stack inwards foil until ready to serve. If needed, steam inwards a bamboo steamer or microwave them for a few seconds to reheat.


Meanwhile, rehydrate the mushrooms in addition to lily buds inwards hot water. Cut off whatever difficult bits on the lily buds in addition to necktie them inwards a knot. Thinly piece the mushrooms. Set aside. Whisk the omelet ingredients together. Cook the eggs inwards a apartment layer inwards a nonstick skillet or work. Slice into strips. Set aside. Heat the crude inwards a wok. Add the vegetables, lily buds, mushrooms in addition to broth. Stir tiddler for 2 minutes. Add the soy sauce, sesame crude in addition to shaoxing. Stir tiddler for 1 infinitesimal in addition to thus add together the cornstarch mixture. Cook until the mixture boils. Add the egg in addition to duck. Stir tiddler for 2 minutes. Serve inwards pancakes alongside hoisin sauce.



*If y'all would similar to reserve the duck fatty for around other recipe, drain it off the bottom of pan every 1/2 hr to 45 minutes in addition to pour into a rut prophylactic container. Duck fatty is amazingly tasty to develop with.

My thoughts:

This is a flake of a fourth dimension consuming recipe, I admit, but it is worth it. The pancakes are super unproblematic to brand (who knew?) in addition to the duck is thus flavorful that when y'all sit down downwardly to eat, y'all won't squall upwards that it took the meliorate business office of an evening. If y'all are a planner, brand the duck ahead of fourth dimension in addition to simply toss it inwards alongside everything else when y'all genuinely desire to eat. Normally moo shu is made alongside pork (or occasionally chicken) but nosotros constitute a duck for a skillful cost in addition to idea it would brand an first-class variation. We were right, the core is succulent in addition to adds a richness to the mixture that is similar to what y'all would move from pork but slightly to a greater extent than complex. Not to slight pork, y'all know how deep my dear for pork runs, but it is a wonderful, delicious change. Some of the ingredients are a flake exotic but whatever Chinese (or fifty-fifty Korean inwards our experience) shop volition induce got them in addition to since they are dried they move along for ages, perchance fifty-fifty years. I genuinely would movement to uncovering them all, they add together the perfect textures in addition to flavors to the dish in addition to are sorely missed if absent.

Leftovers agree upwards surprisingly well. Just refrigerate the pancakes in addition to filling (separately)in air tight containers in addition to reheat them over depression rut the side past times side day. What a process it is to induce got homemade moo shu pancakes for lunch!