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… Hoi Sin Lettuce Parcels\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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It\u2019s Sunday lunch and I\u2019m cooking for my friends Pieter and Erin at their house.\u00a0 When I started this project back in late 2012, I cooked a few of the early meals for Pieter and Erin at their house.\u00a0 At that point I didn\u2019t know that before the end of the project we\u2019d be neighbours \u2026 well ok not exactly neighbours \u2026 but nearly.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This meal is in the chicken section of the book \u2026 but it\u2019s a nice change to have a bit of duck.\u00a0 This has two duck breasts to serve four people, which means that a relatively expensive meat goes a long way.\u00a0 This meal has tofu in it.\u00a0 This is only the second time in my life I\u2019ve eaten tofu and the first time I\u2019ve cooked with it.\u00a0 I am a tofu skeptic.<\/span><\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t loads of cooking with this meal.\u00a0 The duck is cut into chunks, seasoned and fried.\u00a0 Later chilli, spring onions and then a bit later honey is added.\u00a0 Other than briefly cooking some noodles that\u2019s all the cooking involved.\u00a0 The rest is really about arranging food.\u00a0 And it does take a bit of arranging.\u00a0 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

This dish looks pretty great. The duck smells great.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The parcels pretty much worked and some of them could be lifted off the serving plate and on to your plate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is plenty of food here for four people. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I was skeptical about the tofu.\u00a0 But it was pretty good actually.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just two meals left now!<\/span><\/p>\n

Who With:<\/strong> Pieter & Erin\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How Long:<\/strong> Fifteen Minutes and Forty Four Seconds\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t