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Duck Breast in Bordeaux Wine Sauce
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What is better on a February evening than a wonderful duck or goose breast served with a warm Bordeaux wine sauce? Our Bordeaux cooking vacations will let you enjoy this dish and more while you explore one of France’s most loved food and wine regions. You can try this recipe at home (served with excellent French wines) or learn it during a cooking vacation in France.
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Recipe for Duck Breast in Bordeaux Wine Sauce
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Ingredients
- 4 breasts of fat duck or goose
- 250 g (about 8-9 oz) minced shallots
- 1 Tbsp duck or goose fat
- 55 cl (about 2.5 cups) of good red Bordeaux wine
- 3 tsp green peppercorns
- 3 tsp honey
- 2-3 Tbsp heavy cream
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat goose or duck fat in a large frying pan, add minced shallots and cook them very gently to melt (about 15 minutes).
- Add the wine, green peppercorns, honey and salt and let it cook and reduce slowly (about 30 minutes).
- Add two or three Tbsp heavy cream and taste the seasoning.
- Score the fat of the breasts, and put them fat-side down in a very hot frying pan. Then lower heat .
- Remove the melted fat two or three times during while cooking 10-12 minutes on this side.
- Turn and cook on the other side 10 minutes more. Duck and goose breasts are best served medium rare, sliced and served with hot sauce.
- Serve with an excellent Bordeaux, such as the Château Bujan grand vin de Bordeaux, Côtes de Bourg appellation controlée.
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