… Hoi Sin Lettuce Parcels
It’s Sunday lunch and I’m cooking for my friends Pieter and Erin at their house. When I started this project back in late 2012, I cooked a few of the early meals for Pieter and Erin at their house. At that point I didn’t know that before the end of the project we’d be neighbours … well ok not exactly neighbours … but nearly.
This meal is in the chicken section of the book … but it’s a nice change to have a bit of duck. This has two duck breasts to serve four people, which means that a relatively expensive meat goes a long way. This meal has tofu in it. This is only the second time in my life I’ve eaten tofu and the first time I’ve cooked with it. I am a tofu skeptic.
There isn’t loads of cooking with this meal. The duck is cut into chunks, seasoned and fried. Later chilli, spring onions and then a bit later honey is added. Other than briefly cooking some noodles that’s all the cooking involved. The rest is really about arranging food. And it does take a bit of arranging. There is a Hoi Sin dressing to drizzle over everything, with its three limes, it does take a bit of squashing. And then sweet chilli sauce to be drizzled, very specifically, on every piece of tofu.
This dish looks pretty great. The duck smells great. And it tastes really great too. The idea with this is to create a little parcel of lettuce leaves, filled with noodles, the duck and the other bits and bobs. The parcels pretty much worked and some of them could be lifted off the serving plate and on to your plate.
There is plenty of food here for four people.
I was skeptical about the tofu. But it was pretty good actually.
This was a nice Sunday lunch, washed down with 0% alcohol beer, in keeping with my zero alcohol diet for the next 100 days, actually 96 days now.
Just two meals left now!
Who With: Pieter & Erin
How Long: Fifteen Minutes and Forty Four Seconds
