Duck breast with pickled quince and duck glaze, fig and almo

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 larges Duck breasts
2 Pears; (use quinces, when
; in season)
300 millilitres Duck stock made from duck or chicken; (or chicken stock)
; bones
500 millilitres Water; (to cover pears)
250 grams Sugar
1 pinch Nutmeg
Cinnamon stick
250 millilitres White wine vinegar
200 grams Dried figs
30 grams Butter; (soft)
1 tablespoon Honey
1 teaspoon Orange peel
220 grams Roasted almonds

Directions

FOR SUGAR SYRUP

FOR FIG SAUSAGE

Put half of the figs in a food processor with half of the butter and honey and process until finely chopped. With the motor still running, add half of the nuts through the feed tube and process until coarsely chopped. Add orange peel.

Remove the mixture, divide into 4 and roll up in between both hands (put some foodsafe plastic gloves on to roll them up, or keep palm wet to avoid them sticking).

Pan fry lightly in a small amount of butter for 1 minute and warm them in the resting oven (be gentle they're fragile when hot).

Peel pear or quince, then poach in syrup until soft. Cool and remove.

Marinate duck breast in cold syrup for about 2 hours. Remove duck breast from syrup and seal in a hot pan until coloured, then rest in a 50c oven for 10 minutes.

Slice quince and warm in oven. Slice duck breast.

Arrange duck breast, quince slices and fig sausage.

Reduce duck stock to a duck glaze and ladle onto the plate.

Converted by MC_Buster.

Per serving: 836 Calories (kcal); 39g Total Fat; (38% calories from fat); 13g Protein; 124g Carbohydrate; 16mg Cholesterol; 78mg Sodium Food Exchanges: ½ Grain(Starch); 1½ Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 3 Fruit; 7 Fat; 4 ½ Other Carbohydrates

Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.

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