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Crispy Peking Duck in Pancakes

Peking duck is something that has always been very close to the Oliver family. Bizarrely enough, the fact that my parents ran a pub restaurant meant that we very rarely went out for dinner as a family, but when we did, my old man used to take us out to this Chinese restaurant in Sawbridgeworth where we all fell in love with Peking duck. There are hundreds of ways of cooking duck in Asian cultures – steamed, roasted, pumped up with bicycle pumps to remove the meat from the skin – but we're at home and so we can't do with all this mucking about. My way is simple and it works...

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Crispy Peking Duck in Pancakes

Why it works: Ginger and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,833 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Crispy Peking Duck in Pancakes

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

549Calories
23 gProtein
29 gFat
50 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pancakenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By jamieoliver. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Ginger + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Cucumber + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Plum + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together309 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Ginger + plumtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together272 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Ginger + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,595 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ginger, plum, sugar, sauce, orange, cucumber):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, plum, sugar, sauce, orange, cucumber. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.