Beijing / Northern Chinese Recipe

Peking Duck Pancakes at Home

Duck service · Serves 3–4 · 45 minutes plus duck

This home guide covers the Peking duck serving system: thin pancakes, scallions, cucumber, sweet bean sauce, and crisp duck skin or prepared roast duck.

Recipe at a glance

PurposeHigh-frequency Chinese restaurant menu dish
Cuisine or formatBeijing / Northern Chinese
Menu variation ruleProtein may be adjusted without creating a separate recipe family.

Ingredients

  • 1 roast duck or prepared duck pieces
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup boiling water
  • 1 teaspoon neutral oil
  • Cucumber batons
  • Scallion batons
  • Sweet bean sauce or hoisin sauce
  • Optional sugar

Method

  1. Mix flour and boiling water into a dough and rest 30 minutes.
  2. Divide into small balls and roll thin pancakes.
  3. Cook pancakes on a dry skillet until pale spots form.
  4. Steam pancakes briefly to soften.
  5. Slice or warm duck.
  6. Spread sauce on a pancake.
  7. Add duck, cucumber, and scallion, then fold.

Menu-literacy notes

  • Peking duck is a service format as much as a meat dish.
  • Sweet bean sauce is more traditional than generic hoisin, though hoisin is common abroad.
  • This is different from Cantonese roast duck on rice or noodle soup.

Variations and substitutions

  • For chicken, beef, shrimp, pork, tofu, or mixed seafood variants, keep the same sauce logic and adjust the cooking time for the protein.
  • For allergies or religious dietary needs, check sauces, broth, wrappers, cooking wine, and shared wok or fryer use.
  • For takeout-style dishes, sauce texture matters: the sauce should coat the food rather than become a thin soup.

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