Ingredients
Duck:
- 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil
- 2 duck breasts, skin on
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- Salt
Sauce:
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature, divided
- 1/4 cup pomegranate juice
- 1 Pink Lady apple (or other crisp, firm apple) peeled, cored, and finely diced
- 1/4 onion, finely diced
- Pinch sugar, if needed
- Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Goat Cheese, for serving, recipe follows
- Sauteed Julienned Vegetables, for serving, recipe follows
Directions
Heat a medium saute pan over medium-high heat and add the oil.
Cut a crosshatch pattern into the skin of the duck breasts. Be careful to not cut through to the flesh.
Season the skin side with the curry and the flesh side with 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.
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.) 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.
When plating, slice the duck breast thinly and spoon the warm sauce over the duck. Serve with Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Goat Cheese and Sauteed Julienned Vegetables.
Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Goat Cheese:
- 2 large sweet potatoes
- Salt
- 2 tablespoons goat cheese
- 1 tablespoon honey
- Pinch ground ginger
- Pinch ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon unsalted butter
Peel and slice the sweet potatoes into 1/2-inch pieces. 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.
Drain the potatoes well. Transfer them to a food processor and blend until smooth. Add the goat cheese, honey, ginger, cinnamon, butter, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Blend again until everything is well combined. Transfer to a bowl and let cool for 1 minute.
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.
Sauteed Julienned Vegetables:
- Grapeseed oil
- 2 carrots, peeled and julienned
- 1/4 pound snow peas, julienned
- 1 small daikon, julienned
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Heat a saute pan over medium heat and add some oil. 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.
Photo: Duck Breast with Apple-Pomegranate Sauce Recipe
















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By chef_eugene
Tampa Area
on August 22, 2011
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Awesome meal! The apples and onions go in the pomegranate reduction. I watched the episode again to find out when he them put in. Many times you add these kinds of ingredients at the beginning of the reduction, but I didn't see that. So I put them in towards the end and it came out great.
By duckbreast
san francisco, CA
on May 29, 2011
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Amazing! I served this to my family and they all loved it! The tart of the sauce goes so well with the sweet of the sweet potatoes and the texture of the vegetables. Besides that the duck was FANTASTIC!
By hitokirirod_110...
Pompano Bch., FL
on February 06, 2011
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Recipe needs review besides the missing ingredients the cooking time and temp is off, when i followed directions it burned outside and the center was raw, when i cooked the second one medium skin side (8 min. and medium low meat side (10 min it came out perfect. People that have no clue of cooking read this recipes and if they where to follow the recipe step by step they would be really frustrated by the end result. PLEASE REVIEW
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