Duck Breast with Apple-Pomegranate Sauce

Name: Duck Breast with Apple-Pomegranate Sauce
Prep time: 1 h 1 min
Cook time: 1 h 1 min
Total time: 1 h 1 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 carrots, peeled and julienned; 1 teaspoon curry powder; 1 small daikon, julienned; 2 duck breasts, skin on; 2 Tbsps goat cheese; 1 Tbsp grapeseed oil; 2 servings Grapeseed oil; 1 pinch Pinch ground cinnamon; 1 pinch Pinch ground ginger; 1 Tbsp honey; 0 onion, finely diced; 1 Pink Lady apple (or other crisp, firm apple) peeled, cored, and finely diced; 59 milliliters pomegranate juice; 2 servings Salt; 2 servings Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 113 grams snow peas, julienned; 1 pinch Pinch sugar, if needed; 2 larges sweet potatoes; 1 teaspoon unsalted butter; 3 Tbsps unsalted butter, at room temperature, divided

Duck Breast with Apple-Pomegranate Sauce might be just the main course you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains about 53g of protein, 41g of fat, and a total of 853 calories. This recipe covers 53% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 2. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 1 minutes. A mixture of salt, onion, sugar, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. To use up the grapeseed oil you could follow this main course with the Strawberry Crumble as a dessert.

Instructions

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Heat a medium saute pan over medium-high heat and add the oil.

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Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Cut a crosshatch pattern into the skin of the duck breasts. Be careful to not cut through to the flesh.

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Duck Breast

Season the skin side with the curry and the flesh side with salt.

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Curry Powder

Salt

Place in the pan, skin side down. Cook on the skin side to render of some of the fat and crisp up the skin, 5 to 7 minutes. Once the skin is crisp, flip the breasts, reduce the heat to medium, and cook on the flesh side for about 4 minutes for medium-rare. Once cooked, remove from the pan and allow the meat to rest for 5 minutes.

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Meat

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Frying Pan

Make the sauce in the same pan used for the duck. (Wipe out the pan if you have burned bits on the bottom, and add some butter.)

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Butter

Sauce

Whole Duck

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Frying Pan

Place the pan over medium-high heat and add 1 tablespoon butter. Deglaze the pan with the pomegranate juice. Allow the juice to simmer and reduce by half. Turn off the heat and stir in the remaining 2 tablespoons butter. Taste and season with a pinch of sugar if the sauce tastes too tart.

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Pomegranate Juice

Butter

Juice

Sauce

Sugar

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Frying Pan

When plating, slice the duck breast thinly and spoon the warm sauce over the duck.

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Duck Breast

Sauce

Whole Duck

Serve with Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Goat Cheese and

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Sweet Potato

Goat Cheese

Sauteed Julienned Vegetables.

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Vegetable

Peel and slice the sweet potatoes into 1/2-inch pieces.

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Sweet Potato

Place the potatoes in a large saucepan, fill with water to cover the potatoes, and add some salt. Bring the water to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook the potatoes until fork tender, about 13 minutes. Stick a fork in a potato piece and if it goes in easily, it's done.

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Potato

Water

Salt

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Sauce Pan

Drain the potatoes well.

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Potato

Transfer them to a food processor and blend until smooth.

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Add the goat cheese, honey, ginger, cinnamon, butter, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Blend again until everything is well combined.

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Goat Cheese

Cinnamon

Butter

Ginger

Honey

Salt

Transfer to a bowl and let cool for 1 minute.

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Bowl

Spoon the potatoes into a zip-top plastic bag or a pastry bag with a tip for piping, or spoon directly onto plates. If piping, cut a hole in the tip and pipe onto the plate.

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Potato

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Heat a saute pan over medium heat and add some oil.

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Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Saute the julienned vegetables and season with salt and pepper. Cook until the vegetables are just softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Taste a bite and cook for another minute if the vegetables are still hard.

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Salt And Pepper