Does anyone know any fab' Duck breast recipes?

[AdamM]

Hi there, I am hosting a dinner party over the weekend for 6 people and have some duck breasts that I want to use.

Does anyone know any good duck recipes they can recommend?

Many thanks :)

[HAL9000]

This recipe has worked for me: How To Make Duck In Orange Sauce.

[dukesdenver]

In the old-skool Delia book there's a dead easy recipe for a sauce involving just cherry jam and red wine. Tasty.

[Annette Curtain]

Well firstly Adam

Can you cook and what do you envisage your supper looking/tasting like ?

Nette:)

[AdamM]

Hi Nette,

I have 2 criteria that I am hoping to conquer. I am looking to avoid doing any fruit based recipe as I want to do something a bit more adventurous and away from the norm'. Plus, one of my guests/friends is an exceptional cook so I don't mind admitting that I am hoping to impress them!

Thanks for your message - Adam

[HAL9000]

In that case, you might find what you are looking for here: adventurous and exceptional duck recipes

Or here: some interesting duck recipes by Richard Corrigan of Cookery School.

Edited for better link.

[Tolly]

Hi Adam,

Duck breast in a baking tray, fat side up (you may want to trim some of the excess skin/fat off the ends.

Score the fat three or four times across the breast so deep that it just cuts a little into the meat.

Honey, soy sauce, salt, pepper, chinese five spice, chilli and ginger on top

Oven at 180 for 15 - 20 mins

Serve with mangetout/pak choi/other crunchy green veggies

A

[Jeremy]

You need to fry it skin side down first - before putting it in the oven - if you want it nice and crispy. All depends how you like it, I suppose.

[Annette Curtain]

Hmmmmm..

"If you don't like duck, you're out of luck"

NETTE:)

[nashoi]

Nette,

Whilst driving through Sussex the other day I happened by The Weald Smokery, down by Bewl Water. I stopped off for a quick look round what was a lovely little shop with its own smokery out the back. You can get a guided a tour if you fancy seeing how the pros do it.

[Undisputedtruth]

Mine is roast duck and parsnips with potatoes served with an apple cider sauce.

[Annette Curtain]

nashoi Wrote:

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> Nette,

>

> Whilst driving through Sussex the other day I

> happened by The Weald Smokery, down by Bewl Water.

> I stopped off for a quick look round what was a

> lovely little shop with its own smokery out the

> back. You can get a guided a tour if you fancy

> seeing how the pros do it.

OMG

I's so bloody excited by that. OK, who's coming on a group tour then ?

It looks brilliant & not far away either. Nashoi you're my new Forum BF ( 24hrs max )

"Oi d_c fancy a day out ? "

NETTE(tu)(tu)(tu)

[david_carnell]

Fire up the charabanc!

Sounds fantastic and I could learn from some masters before I get my home-made smoker going.....

[Annette Curtain]

Yes & yes

Could you take a "research" day mid-week any time soon ?

> I could learn from some masters before I set my own house on-fire get my home-made smoker going <

NETTE:)

[Annette Curtain]

Now...

Back to "The Dinner Party"

Adam doesn't want fruit so, Moro's Duck breast with pomegranate molasses, is off the menu, shame it's divine which is a unfortunate as Quince, medlar & pomegranate are all in season still

Adam wants to impress

Adam wants to shag one of the guests a recipe

Anyway, silliness aside ( for now )

Last night in bed I was reading, as i'm inclined to do.

Nigel Slater: The Kitchen Diaries and came across Slow-cooked Duck with star anise & ginger. pg 345

Perfect for Adam I thought, for the season too. A little aromatic,soft with a gentle warmth. He suggests serving it with rice, though I'd be tempted with a light potato and celeriac mash, a few green beans on the side perhaps.

I'd be impressed, if it's done well. Though Adam may want something a little-more-showy.

We'll see.

* tum tee tum *

Nette:-S

[womanofdulwich]

I hope you have a lovely evening Annette and Adam. Please report back.

;-)

[PeckhamRose]

I have a FABULOUS recipe for grapefruit sauce with soy sauce and honey and all sorts, in the Two Fat Ladies cook book. I can not scan that and don't have time to write it all out. So if it floats your boat, PM me and I will give you my number and you can call and I'll read it out over the phone. It is absolutely delicious and really rich.

[Alan Medic]

I suppose two halves of a grapefruit could look like breasts.........but duck breasts? I must pay more attention next time I'm in the park. Assuming there are any left, as after this thread they well all be gone. Where are you getting your one from Adam, Dulwich Park or Peckham Rye? I noticed you posted the same thread in the 'wanted' section. I take it there's a duck on the run. Will keep an eye out for it but would love to know what crime it committed.

PS Adam, if you lost your duck a picture wouldn't go amiss.

[katie1997]

Alan, have you been foraging for mushrooms by any chance?

Is it too late to suggest Provencal-style duck with olives (but legs def best for slow cooking) or lavender honey duck? Classic and simple but maybe not as adventurous.

[Alan Medic]

No katienumbers. Foraging for marbles,maybe.

[Annette Curtain]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> Is it too late to suggest Provencal-style duck

> with olives (but legs def best for slow cooking)

> or lavender honey duck? Classic and simple but

> maybe not as adventurous.

Probably Katie Num-nums

But just know, Adam is SWEATING IT now.

"Ohhh..shall I, shan't I, there's soooo much riding on this"

*smiles benignly*

NETTE:))

[katie1997]

Oooh Nette indeed, the suspense....

anyway, here's another recipe (from Villandry)

Breast of Barbary duck with fondant potatoes, Bordelaise sauce and morels. Its so simple but effective. The sauce is french red wine, shallots, thyme, bay leaves, veal stock then add butter and a good splash of madeira. Reduce, simmer and sieve then add morels.

Alan, did you lose marbles? Me too! I keep visualising the baseball caps belonging to Huey, Dewey and Louie floating in the pomegranate, grapefruit, orange, cherry, lavender, honey, soy sauce combo whenever I read this thread :))

Edited to correct spelling of Louie. It simply won't do with a y B)

[Annette Curtain]

It's gonna be a swell night Katie 69'r

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Duck_Soup.jpg

:-$

[katie1997]

So.

Did anyone watch Masterchef this evening? Has Monica become a LOT more scary than ever before? It was as if she thought she was Michel Roux. My boss won't like it, blah

Admttedly, the duck dishes weren't that appealing. If only they'd read this thread.

[Annette Curtain]

Y-es

I did start to watch it but it induced a bout of anxiety.

( though that could have coincided with the jazz fag I was smoking )

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Columnist/Columnists/2011/1/21/1295609798701/Monica-Gellati-and-Michel-007.jpg

:-S