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Crispy duck with apricot and plum sauce
Fruit and vegetables
4 tbsp grated fresh root
ginger
salad leaves
, to serve
2
plums
, stones removed, quartered
1
lime
, juice only
Cooking ingredients
2 tbsp ground Sichuan
peppercorns
pinch of
salt
, to taste (optional)
6 whole
star anise
1 tbsp dark
soy sauce
1 tbsp light
soy sauce
1 tbsp groundnut oil
50g/2oz
dried apricots
, chopped
2½ tsp
caster sugar
1 tbsp
honey
1
cinnamon
stick
1 whole
star anise
Meat, fish and poultry
2
duck
breasts, skin scored in a criss-cross pattern
Other
2 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine or
dry sherry
100ml/3½fl oz water
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