Best Cooking Lights Seared Orange Duck Breast Recipes
PAN-SEARED DUCK BREAST WITH ORANGE PAN SAUCE RECIPE
To cook duck breast at home, our recipe starts by scoring the breast, placing it in a cold pan, and cooking it low and slow before making a pan sauce.
Provided by Sohla El-Waylly
Categories Entree Mains Quick and Easy Quick Dinners
Time 40m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Season duck breasts with salt, heavily on the skin side and lightly on the flesh side.
- Increase heat to medium and further brown skin if needed, about 1 minute, before flipping and cooking on the flesh side. For medium-rare meat, cook until breast registers 130°F (54°C) on an instant-read thermometer, about 1 to 2 minutes. Continue cooking until duck registers 140°F (60°C) for medium or 155°F (68°F) for well-done. Remove duck from pan and set aside to rest.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 419 kcal, Carbohydrate 6 g, Cholesterol 189 mg, Fiber 0 g, Protein 30 g, SaturatedFat 11 g, Sodium 856 mg, Sugar 3 g, Fat 26 g, ServingSize Serves 4, UnsaturatedFat 0 g
DUCK BREAST WITH ORANGE GASTRIQUE
Duck breast, long considered a delicacy in French cuisine, is exceptionally moist and tender when properly prepared. The breast is small enough to cook in a pan (rather than having to roast the whole bird) and it needs no flour or added fat to develop a crisp golden crust. You do need to follow a few special rules, however, as duck has quite a bit of fat under its skin. Duck should always be cooked sufficiently to render out its fat, some of which is poured off and reserved for another use (such as roasting potatoes or sautéing vegetables). To render fat, the duck is cooked first on its skin side, then turned over to finish cooking through. The desired degree of doneness depends on whom you ask; some cooks insist that the breast meat should always remain pink, while others would have you cook it further (the USDA, for example, recommends cooking to 170°F). In the recipe that follows, the time given should result in a medium-rare (pinkish) interior after the duck has rested, so cook it longer if you prefer it more well done. The rich taste of duck makes it a fine partner for fruit, especially orange (think of the French standby, duck à l'orange). Here it is served with a sweet-and-sour sauce called gastrique, made by caramelizing sugar and then deglazing the pan with an acidic liquid, such as vinegar or citrus juice (this recipe uses both). This dish would pair particularly well with mashed or pureed turnips or sautéed bitter greens.
Yield Serves 2
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Render fat Using a sharp knife, trim away excess skin from the duck (leaving enough to amply cover the breast) and score the skin, first cutting diagonally in one direction and then the other in a crosshatch manner. Cut all the way through the skin and most of the fat but avoid the flesh. Season both sides with salt and pepper and place in an unheated 10-inch skillet with the skin side down. Cook over medium-low heat until a small pool of fat forms in the pan. Use tongs to turn breast over and then cook the other side 1 minute. Turn breast over again (skin side down) and pour out fat into a heatproof bowl. (Reserve fat for another use; allow it to cool before storing in an airtight container at room temperature.) Continue cooking duck until the skin is nicely browned and crisp, 10 to 12 minutes, spooning off and reserving excess fat as necesary.
- Sauté Turn duck once more, skin side up and cook until duck is medium rare, 8 to 12 minutes. It should register 125°F on an instant-read thermometer (insert into thickest part). Transfer to a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet to rest for 5 to 8 minutes. The duck will continue to cook slightly during this time.
- Make gastrique Bring a small pot of water to a boil. Add orange zest and simmer for 2 minutes, then drain. (This will remove some of the bitterness and also help soften the the zest.) Heat sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat without stirring. Once the sugar has started to melt, swirl the pan (to redistribute the melted sugar so it caramelizes more evenly) and continue cooking until it is uniformly amber, about 5 minutes more. Pour in vinegar and stir with a wooden spoon to combine, then continue simmering (and stirring every so often) until slightly reduced and syrupy, about 5 minutes. Pour in orange juice and add zest; simmer until reduced to a thick syrup and a foam forms on top, about 5 minutes longer. Season with salt and pepper.
- Serve Slice duck crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices, fan out on serving plates, and drizzle with sauce before serving.
SEARED ORANGE DUCK BREAST
Make and share this Seared Orange Duck Breast recipe from Food.com.
Provided by catsoverhusband
Categories High Protein
Time 30m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Combine duck, rind, salt, pepper and garlic in a covered dish and refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Combine the orange juice, sake, tamari and honey in a small sauce pan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until liquid in reduced to 2/3.
- Heat oil in an oven-safe skillet. Add duck and sear each side - the time you should leave it on each side depends on the thickness of the duck and your preference for the doneness.
- Drizzle the duck with a few tablespoons of the sauce. Bake for 5 - 10 minutes, again depending on the thickness of the duck breast and your preference for the doneness.
- Remove duck from the pan, slice into strips and top with the sauce. Serve with rice and a healthy, steamed veggie.
- Additional notes: The picture is from my first attempt at this recipe, which admittedly is a hack from a CookingLight recipe. The duck was cooked more than I prefer, but it was still delicious. The sauce was thin, so you could add corn starch to thicken it, but I would rather have a thin sauce. It is very flavorful. I also drizzled it on the rice and snow peas.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 251.1, Fat 6.4, SaturatedFat 0.9, Cholesterol 162.3, Sodium 953.4, Carbohydrate 10.7, Fiber 0.6, Sugar 7, Protein 32.4
JAPANESE-STYLE MARINATED DUCK BREAST
This takes a little longer to make than some of the recipes I have been posting lately but it is well worth the effort. It has a wonderful flavour and smells great while cooking.
Provided by The Flying Chef
Categories Duck
Time 1h
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 22
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.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 805, Fat 27.3, SaturatedFat 7.3, Cholesterol 327.3, Sodium 3157.7, Carbohydrate 59, Fiber 6.2, Sugar 42.4, Protein 70
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