Grilled duck breast served with crunchy pickled vegetables and spring onion pancake

Spring onion pancakes
Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk and ½ cup water
• 1 bunch spring onion, sliced

Method:

1. Sieve flour, salt and baking powder. Mix eggs, milk and water. Whisk through flour mixture until smooth batter. Allow to rest before baking.
2. Spray a pan with spray and cook, add thin layer of pancake batter, sprinkle some spring onion over wet batter and allow bottom to cook, flip and allow other side to cook.
3. Repeat with remaining batter and spring onion.

Pickled vegetables
Ingredients:

• 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
• 4 carrots, peeled and julienne sliced
• 1 bunch spring onion, thinly sliced
• ¼ red cabbage, shredded
• ½ cucumber, julienne

Pickling liquid
Ingredients:

• ¼ cup sugar
• ¾ cup water
• 1 ¼ cup rice wine vinegar
• 1 tsp salt

Method:

Combine the sugar, water, rice vinegar and salt in small pot. Taste when the sugar and salt have dissolved before the mixture boils. Add additional salt and sugar if desired. Pour the pickling liquid over vegetables.

Duck
Ingredients:

• 4 skin-on duck breasts
• salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method:

1. Score skin of duck breast (proper scoring is essential for crispy duck skin).
2. Season both sides of duck breast with salt and pepper.
3. Preheat a griddle pan on medium-high heat. Grill the duck to desired doneness, about 5 minutes per side for medium done.
4. Allow to rest before slicing.

Serve with pickled vegetables, spring onion pancakes and a glass of DUKE Pinotage.