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Duck with fennel and Shiitake mushrooms

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Duck is one of the classics of hearty cuisine and impresses with its juiciness and depth of flavor. Combined with aromatic shiitake mushrooms and fresh fennel, the result is a balanced dish that scores with clear umami flavors.

Paul Foster

For the duck

Ingredients (4 servings)
2 piece(s) Duck breasts
250 ml White wine
1 tablespoon(s) Soy sauce
1 tablespoon(s) Cane sugar
2 twigs Rosemary
Maldon sea salt
  • Preheat the oven to 120 °C.
  • Make a diamond-shaped incision in the duck skin and fry the duck breasts on the skin side in a pan until crispy, then turn briefly.
  • Then place in an ovenproof dish and deglaze the drippings with white wine and soy sauce, add sugar, bring to the boil and leave the rosemary to infuse for 5 minutes.
  • Then pour the stock over the duck breasts and cook in the oven for 50 minutes at a core temperature of approx. 58 °C until pink.

For the fennel

Ingredients (4 servings)
400 g Baby fennel
400 ml Vegetable stock
1 twig Rosemary
1 Cinnamon stick
Salt
Olive oil
Sesame oil
  • Clean the fennel, halve if necessary depending on size, sauté in sesame oil, deglaze with vegetable stock.
  • Then add the cinnamon and rosemary, simmer for 5 minutes, season lightly with salt and stir in a little olive oil.

For the mushrooms

Ingredients (4 servings)
125 g Shiitake mushrooms
1 Garlic clove
Salt
Pepper
Peanut oil
  • Cut the shiitake mushrooms into strips.
  • Then fry briefly in hot peanut oil with the halved garlic clove and season with salt and pepper.

For the kohlrabi foam

Ingredients (4 servings)
300 g Kohlrabi
200 ml Vegetable stock
2 twigs Lovage
1/2 teaspoon(s) Coriander seeds
2 tablespoon(s) Apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoon(s) Mascarpone
1 tablespoon(s) Olive oil
250 g Herb salad
Salt
Almond shells (alternatively untreated, chopped almonds)
Sunflower oil
Salt
Chili flakes
  • To make the kohlrabi foam, peel and dice the kohlrabi and blend finely with the vegetable stock, lovage, coriander seeds, apple cider vinegar, mascarpone and olive oil.
  • Then pour the sauce into an iSi bottle, load with a capsule, shake well and chill.
  • Wash the herb salad and spin dry.
  • Season lightly with salt and stir in a little olive oil.
  • Finally, fry the almond shells in sunflower oil, drain on kitchen paper and salt until they turn into crispy potato chips.
  • Remove the duck from the oven and cut into 10 slices, each about 1 cm thick.
  • To serve, place the kohlrabi foam on the plates, arrange the pink duck, fennel and shiitake on top and garnish with almond chips and chili flakes.

Tip:

Falstaff wine recommendation
Minervois La 50/50 2023, Anne Gros & Jean-Paul Tollot, Aigues-Vives, France

Fresh blend from the south of France. Berry nose with some herbal spice and floral notes. Very juicy on the palate, but still with a certain structure. Goes perfectly with the duck, but doesn't overpower the fennel either.

gute-weine.de, 22,- Euro


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