Even an electric frypan would do the trick. You can improvise with a range of portable cooking devices, but it is ideal to have some sort of temperature control. I bought an electric table top cooker and light weight hot pot pan on my last visit to Asia. That's why I go with a Chinese hot pot, which can be cooked at the table by your guests. The trickiest thing about cooking Chinese main courses is that they should be cooked fresh just before you eat them. Otherwise try a pinot noir or a grenache.ĭish 3 in your Chinese Feast: Chinese Hotpot What to drink with your duck pancakes? Stick with the riesling if you prefer whites. It isn't Chinese, but your guests won't complain. A generous smear of minty butter, some lamb on the top and you are done. I'll generally make my lamb pikelets up before serving them. Heat a couple of spoonfuls of mint jelly in the same frypan, then toss the lamb slices in briefly to finish them off. Remove and slice them thinly: they should still be very rare. Brown the outside of a couple lamb fillets. Mix some mint jelly in with some soft butter, enough so that the butter to have a definite minty flavour. They can be hot, cold or lukewarm when you serve them. First cook a batch of small pancakes or pikelets. If you don't want duck, try this Aussie variant, which I often serve as finger food. It tastes delicious with exactly the same combination. I will often buy some Chinese BBQ pork as well as duck, pre-sliced by the same takeaway store. You and your guests can enjoy rolling your sleeves up and creating your own Peking Duck pancakes: that is three-quarters of the fun. Use the green part as well as the white for Chinese cooking. I put some Hoi Sin sauce on the table (available from the Asian aisle of your local supermarket or the Chinese grocer), a well as some spring onion, chopped into fine matchsticks. duck and pancakes at the ready and you are almost good to go. I'm generally happy to make my own pancakes even though they are Aussie style. The freezer section of your Chinese grocery store will have frozen Peking Duck pancakes, often made with spring onions in the batter. You have choices with the pancakes as well. It will probably still have bones in it, but who cares? Or the easy way, which still proves way cheaper that going out to eat Peking Duck: buy cooked duck from a good Chinese takeaway. You can buy Luv-a-duck pre-marinated duck pieces from most good supermarkets. You can buy a whole duck, or duck fillets and do everything from scratch using a Peking Duck sauce recipe. You have three choices with the duck itself.

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