Recipe of Duckstrami with Smashed Cucumbers in 25 Minutes for Beginners

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Duckstrami with Smashed Cucumbers is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Duckstrami with Smashed Cucumbers is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To serve, slice the duck breasts. Place the cucumbers on a serving platter and top with the duck. Garnish with the spring onions and remaining pastrami rub and serve with the steamed rice and ginger sauce on the side.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook duckstrami with smashed cucumbers using 16 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Duckstrami with Smashed Cucumbers:

1. Take 2 duck breasts, skin on
2. Make ready 20 g/¾oz fine sea salt
3. Get 2 tsp soft dark brown sugar
4. Prepare 1 tbsp garlic powder
5. Take 4 juniper berries, ground
6. Make ready 2 bay leaves, finely crushed
7. Prepare 2 tsp ground coriander
8. Make ready 1 tsp paprika
9. Prepare 1 tsp mixed spice
10. Take 1 tsp cracked black pepper
11. Take 4 spring onions, trimmed and cut diagonally, to garnish
12. Make ready steamed jasmine or long-grain rice, to serve
13. Prepare for the rub
14. Make ready 2 tsp coriander seeds, toasted and crushed
15. Prepare 2 tsp cracked black pepper
16. Prepare vegetable oil, for brushing

However, after plating up, they slid the meal over to Matt but he immediately called out what they had just done. Chinese smashed cucumber salad with garlic, vinegar and sesame oil. Cucumber is really great for summer. The cool and crispy taste can help us against the hot weather.

Instructions

Instructions to make Duckstrami with Smashed Cucumbers:

1. To make the duck, score the duck skin in a crosshatch pattern. Combine all of the remaining ingredients in a bowl and rub all over the duck. Place in the fridge for 24 hours.
2. To make the pastrami rub, mix together the coriander seeds and pepper. Remove the duck from the fridge, take out of the bowl, wash off and pat dry with kitchen towels. Brush the meat side of the duck with a little vegetable oil and generously apply half of the pastrami rub. Heat a dry frying pan over a medium–hot heat, cook the duck skin-side down for 3 minutes and then sear the other side for 2 minutes, or until cooked to your liking. Leave to rest.
3. To serve, slice the duck breasts, Garnish with the spring onions and remaining pastrami rub and serve with the steamed rice

Smashed cucumbers, or pai huang gua, is a Sichuan dish that is typically served with rich, spicy food. We started with English cucumbers, which are nearly seedless and have thin, crisp skins. Placing them in a zipper-lock bag and smashing them into large, irregular pieces sped up a salting step that helped. Bring out the cast iron skillet or even just a heavy pot and give them a healthy smack or two. While the cucumbers for this salad could be daintily sliced or diced, they're instead smashed.

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