Marinated Duck Breast With Mango Salsa Recipes

CRISPY FRAGRANT DUCK TACOS WITH ASIAN PEAR AND MANGO SALSA

Steps:

• For the duck marinade: In a medium bowl, add the ginger, peppercorns, rice wine, dark and light soy sauce, sea salt and star anise and stir to combine. Add the duck, cover with plastic wrap and leave to marinate for 30 minutes or as long as overnight in the refrigerator.
• For the salsa: While the duck marinates, combine the cilantro, ginger, chile, grapefruit, lime juice and zest, pears, mangos, onions and chile flakes in a medium bowl. Toss to combine and season with sea salt. Set aside in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
• Heat a wok or pan over high heat and add the vegetable oil. Place the duck into the wok, skin-side down, and fry until the skin is brown and crisp, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip the breasts and reduce the heat to medium. Cover and cook for 4 minutes.
• Remove the duck and let rest for 5 minutes. Chop the duck into bite-size pieces, then dust the pieces in the cornstarch and coat well.
• Heat a wok or pan over high heat and fill to a quarter of its depth with peanut oil. Heat the oil to 350 degrees F, or until a cube of bread turns golden brown in 15 seconds and floats to the surface. Ensure that your wok is stable before deep-frying.
• Place the duck pieces in a spider/scoop, carefully lower into the oil and fry until crispy and golden brown. Remove from the pan and drain on paper towels.
• To serve, spoon some crispy duck onto a tortilla and top with some Asian pear salsa. Serve with small bowls of cilantro, flaked sea salt and dried chile flakes so guests can season their own and help themselves.

HABANERO-ORANGE MARINATED DUCK QUESADILLAS WITH MANGO SALSA

Steps:

• Duck Quesadillas:
• Finely chop the orange peels and cilantro leaves. In a medium bowl add the olive oil, orange juice, habanero pepper and salt and pepper. Mix well. Rub the duck breast with the mixture and marinate for 4 hours in the refrigerator.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Remove the duck from refrigerator. Drain excess marinade. In a large oven-proof skillet over high heat, sear the duck breasts on both sides until brown. Transfer to the oven and roast until done. Let cool. Remove the skin and dice the meat.
• Mango Salsa:
• Combine the mango, pepper, lime, and cilantro and refrigerate.
• Gently warm the tortillas. Spread diced duck breast evenly on each half of each tortilla. Top each with cheese. Fold tortilla. Lightly oil a grill pan and grill until light brown on both sides and cheese is melted. Slice each tortilla into 5 wedges and garnish with mango salsa and sour cream.

MARINATED DUCK BREAST WITH MANGO SALSA

Steps:

• Note: prep time does not include marinating time.
• Combine all the marinade ingredients in a large bowl, mix well, add duck and combine, marinade for several hours or overnight.
• For the mango salsa combine all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well, cover and refrigerate an hour or two before serving.
• Heat an unoiled pan. Prick duck skin all over, add duck skin side down to pan, cook until browned and crisp. (you will have to drain the fat several times while cooking as there is a lot of fat in the skin of a duck.) Spread about a teaspoon of marinade onto the meat of the breast then place on a wire rack skin side up. Bake in pre heated oven 180c 20-25 Min's or until cooked as desired. I turn the grill on for the last couple of minutes of cooking to really crisp up the skin.
• Serve duck with mango salsa and green salad.
• For the salad.
• Cook bacon in a pan until browned and crisp. drain on absorbent paper.
• Remove crusts from bread. Butter one side sprinkle with garlic powder, parsley and basil fry in pan until browned and crisp do the same to the other side, repeat with remaining slice of bread, cut both slices into cubes.
• Combine lettuce leaves, homemade crouton's, bacon (reserving enough bacon to throw a few pieces on the top for presentation) in a bowl. Top with watercress. Drizzle with dressing or serve dressing on the side.
• For the dressing combine all the ingredients in a jar and shake well.

MARINATED DUCK BREASTS

Steps:

• Place duck breasts in a glass dish with onion, carrot and thyme, "Essence", and garlic. Pour in the wine, mix, cover and marinate overnight in the fridge.
• Next day, remove meat from marinade, and drain them, preserving the marinade.
• Melt the pork fat and 2 tbsp butterover high heat and saute the breasts for five minutes each side.
• Remove and cover the breasts in a 250 degree oven, to keep them warm while you make the sauce.
• Pour off all the fat from the pan, and deglaze with Armagnac. Pour in the unstrained marinade and boil until reduced to one half its original volume.
• Strain the liquid, and bring to a boil a second time, whisking constantly and adding the butter chunks, a few at a time.
• As soon as the butter is incorporated to the sauce, pour over the breasts and serve immediately.

DUCK WITH MANGO

Steps:

• Make cuts in the duck breast skin and rub with salt and pepper.
• In a preheated heavy frying pan, fry the breasts on a fairly hot heat, skin side down for about 5/6 minutes until the skin has turned golden brown.
• Turn over, lower the heat and cook for several minutes more until tender and to your own liking.
• Remove the duck from the pan, cover and keep warm.
• Skim off the duck fat from the juices in the pan, there will most likely be a lot of fat.
• Add the stock to the pan, stir to deglaze, then add the butter, chutney, orange juice and the brandy.
• Stir well, mix the potato flour with some water and add to the pan to thicken the sauce.
• Slice the duck diagonally, arrange with the mango slices on warmed plates. Pour over the sauce.

JAPANESE-STYLE MARINATED DUCK BREAST

Steps:

• Combine all marinade ingredients in a large bowl or storage container, cover, refrigerate several hours or overnight.
• Preheat oven to 180°C.
• Remove duck breasts from marinade, reserve marinade.
• Cook duck breasts skin side down in a large fry pan until skin is browned and crispy and fat is rendered from skin.
• In an oven proof dish pour enough of the reserved marinade, so that the liquid will come about half way up each breast, discard the rest. Place duck breasts flesh side down in marinade and cook in oven for 20-25 minutes.
• Remove duck beasts and allow to rest for 5 minutes, slice thickly.
• If desired which I do. Skim off any excess fat from the surface of liquid, place pan over stove and mix a little water with some cornflour, add this to the marinade and thicken, serve as extra sauce with duck.
• For the Vegetables.
• Combine miso, mirin, sake, sugar, vinegar and soy sauce in a saucepan and heat over a medium heat to dissolve sugar, remove from heat and set to one side.
• Heat some oil in a wok or large frying pan, add all the vegetables and chili except the green onion, stir-fry 4-5 minutes until veg are just tender, you want them to still have a nice crunch.
• Add dressing and onion and stir until heated through.
• To Serve: Place a mound of the veg on a plate and top with sliced duck, drizzle with extra sauce and serve the rest on the side.

MARINATED PAN- ROASTED DUCK BREASTS

Steps:

• For marinade: Combine wine, soy sauce, garlic, tarragon and pepper in a shallow bowl large enough to contain both breasts side by side.
• Marinate the breasts overnight.
• Just before cooking, strain marinade liquid into saucepan.
• Heat a large saute pan without any oil.
• Score the fatty side of each breast several times.
• Pan-roast breasts, FAT-side down for about 2 minutes.
• Turn to flesh side, and cook another 10 minutes.
• Remove from saute pan to cutting board.
• At the same time as you are cooking the breasts, bring marinade to boil, adding butter and sherry.
• Boil vigorously 5 minutes or until slightly reduced and beginning to thicken.
• Slice breast thinly on the bias, away from the fat.
• Return the slices BRIEFLY to the hot saute pan to brown.
• By this I mean literally lay each slice in the pan, immediately turn it over, and remove.
• This will cook the duck medium rare.
• Serve with sauce.