Sticky Hoisin Duck Leg with Brown Rice Noodles & Cucumber Salad

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Prep in 10 High protein

Sticky Hoisin Duck Leg with Brown Rice Noodles & Cucumber Salad

Prep time: 10 mins
Total time: 30 mins
Cuisine: Chinese
Food group: Poultry

Say hello to your new favourite dinner. Slow-cooked British duck is the star of this dish - drizzled in sticky hoisin sauce. Brown rice noodles to soak up all the flavour. Plenty of crunchy veg to bring the green. Spring onions for a bit of zing!

Cooking Instructions

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Before you start

  • Preheat the oven to 240C / fan 220C / gas 9
  • Pull out a medium baking dish, a medium saucepan, a medium bowl & a sieve

Get the duck on

  • Place the duck and all its juices into the medium baking dish
  • Roast for 15 mins

Make the cucumber salad

  • Meanwhile, cut the cucumber into long matchsticks. Thinly slice the spring onions
  • Add both to the medium bowl, along with the juice from the lime. Mix well and season with salt

Glaze the duck

  • After 15 mins, roughly shred the duck meat from the bone. Discard the bones and return the shredded duck to the baking dish
  • Pour the honey and half the hoisin sauce over the duck and toss to coat
  • Return to the oven and roast for a final 8-10 mins, until the sauce thickens and the duck is piping hot

Time to noodle

  • Bring the medium saucepan filled with salted water to a boil
  • Once boiling, add the noodles, gently separate with a fork and boil for 3-4 mins, until cooked
  • In the final 2 mins of cooking, add the mangetout. Drain together, then rinse under cold water
  • Return to the saucepan and add the remaining hoisin. Stir to combine

Plate up

  • Share the hoisin noodles and mangetout between plates, with the cucumber salad alongside
  • Top with the duck and pour over the roasting juices

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