Roast duck with cider sauce

By: Matthew Fort From: Market Kitchen

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Prep time:
30 min
Cook time:
1 hr 45 min
Serves:
2

Potatoes and apples fried in duck fat, plus a salad of watercress and chicory, are the ideal partners for Matthew Fort’s roast duck

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Ingredients

For the duck

For the fried potatoes and apples

  • 1 tbsp duck fat
  • 1 potato, cubed
  • 1 apple, core removed, cut into wedges

For the salad

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Method

1. For the duck: preheat the oven to 230C/210C fan/gas 8. Cut the legs and wings from the duck carcass. Using a heavy knife or cleaver, cut away the undercarriage (all the base of the duck), leaving the crown (the breast of the bird) in one piece. Chop the undercarriage roughly and reserve with the wings.

2. Lightly oil an ovenproof frying pan with a little of the duck fat. Heat the duck crown and legs in the pan, skin-side down, until browned.

3. When the duck is golden-amber, transfer to the oven to roast for 10 minutes, or until cooked to your liking. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.

4. Heat the remaining duck fat in a saucepan until smoking. Add the reserved chopped duck and wings and fry until browned.

5. Add the onion, carrot and celery to the pan, and turn them in the hot fat. Add the bay leaf, peppercorns and cider. If the cider doesn’t cover the contents of the pan, add more cider (or water) until it does.

6. Simmer over a low heat for 1-1½ hours.

7. Strain the liquid into a clean saucepan and simmer until the volume of liquid has reduced to a sauce consistency. Season to taste with salt and keep the sauce warm.

8. For the fried potatoes and apples: heat the duck fat in a frying pan and fry the potato for a few minutes. Add the apple and cook until crisp. Remove and drain on a plate lined with kitchen paper.

9. When you are almost ready to serve the duck, carve the breasts from the bone and gently reheat them, along with the duck legs, in the sauce so that any juices released from the meat are re-incorporated in the sauce.

10. For the salad: separate the chicory leaves and combine them with the watercress in a salad bowl. Lightly dress the salad with vinaigrette just before serving alongside the duck, sauce and fried potatoes and apples.

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This recipe is wrong.After browning the breast and legs, the legs should be added to the trimmings, vegetables and cider. As the legs need to be soft and unctious after the slow cooking. THIS IS WHAT MATTHEW FORT DID.

Monlarousse Monlarousse  Posted 04 Feb 2010 4:12 PM