Gordon Ramsay's stir-fried duck in lettuce cups recipe
- 1 Iceberg lettuce
- 4 duck breasts, about 175g each
- 0.25 tsp Szechuan peppercorns
- 0.5 tsp black peppercorns
- 0.5 - 1 tsp five-spice powder
- 1 pinch sea salt
- 1 cup olive oil, to drizzle
- 1 cucumber
- 2 spring onions, trimmed
- 5 - 6 tbsp hoisin sauce
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds, to sprinkle
- For the lettuce cups, remove the outer layers from the lettuce until you get 4-6 neat whole leaves.
- Trim around each leaf with scissors to neaten the edges, so that they resemble cups.
- Place one on each serving plate.
- Remove the skin and fat from the duck breasts, then slice the flesh into thin strips.
- Put the peppercorns, five-spice powder and sea salt into a mortar and grind to a powder.
- Sprinkle this over the duck slices, drizzle with a little olive oil and toss to coat evenly.
- Halve the cucumber and scoop out the seeds, then cut the flesh into finger-length strips.
- Slice the spring onions very finely on the diagonal.
- Heat a non-stick wide frying pan until hot and you can feel the heat rising above the pan.
- Add the duck and stir fry for 2 minutes.
- Add the spring onions and hoisin sauce and toss well to coat.
- Stir-fry for another minute until the duck is just cooked through.
- Toss with a handful of cucumber strips.
- Divide the stir-fry between the lettuce cups.
- Sprinkle with the sesame seeds and scatter the remaining cucumber strips around each plate.
- Serve immediately.
duck breasts, peppercorns, salt, olive oil, cucumber, spring onions, hoisin sauce, sesame seeds
Taken from www.lovefood.com/guide/recipes/18690/gordon-ramsays-stirfried-duck-in-lettuce-cups-recipe (may not work)