Duck with Plum Sauce & Figs
 
 
A gorgeous duck with plum sauce recipe - perfect for a romantic evening.
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Australian
Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • 6 red plums, stoned and cut into small pieces (leave skin on)
  • ⅔ cup water
  • Juice of one orange
  • ½ teaspoon Chinese five spice
  • Small piece ginger
  • 4-6 tablespoons rice malt syrup, brown sugar or honey
  • Water - 2-3 cups
  • 8 small potatoes, peeled and cut into large pieces.
  • 50 grams butter
  • ¼ cup milk, heated
  • Salt & pepper to taste
  • 2 duck breasts
  • Olive oil
  • Salt & pepper
  • 2 figs, quartered
  • A few lettuce leaves
Instructions
Plum Sauce
  1. Put the plums, water, orange juice, five spice, and ginger in a small saucepan and bring to the boil.
  2. Turn down and cook over a medium heat for 25-30 minutes or until sauce has thickened and plum has brown down.
  3. Mash slightly and then leave to cool.
  4. Once cool enough to taste add sweetener, a spoonful at a time, until the plum sauce is sweet enough for your tastebuds. Set aside.
Mashed Potato
  1. Bring water to boil in a small saucepan and then add potatoes.
  2. Cook over medium heat for around 12-15 minutes or until potatoes are cooked through.
  3. Remove from pan and drain water, keeping potatoes in pan.
  4. Add butter and heated milk and mash as gently as possible making sure to remove all the lumps. Season with salt and pepper and cover to keep warm.
Duck Breasts
  1. Preheat oven to around 120 degrees Celsius and place one dinner plate inside.
  2. Score duck breasts skin with a sharp knife in a criss cross pattern to help render the fat out.
  3. Season duck with salt and pepper and brush meat side with olive oil.
  4. Heat a griddle pan until smoking hot and then lay breasts down skin side down. Cook for around eight minutes and then turn over, cooking for a further two minutes.
  5. Place both breasts on the warmed dinner plate and cover with tin foil. Remove plate to oven and leave to rest for five minutes.
To Serve
  1. Spoon a mound of mashed potato onto a dinner plate and top with a duck breast. Garnish plate with lettuce leaves and figs and then spoon warmed plum sauce around the duck.
  2. Season with freshly ground pepper and sea salt flakes. Eat immediately.
Recipe by The Hungry Australian at https://hungryaustralian.com/2013/02/duck-with-plum-sauce-figs-for-a-romantic-dinner/