Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, roast duck, black pudding and fondant potatoes. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Roast Duck, Black Pudding and Fondant Potatoes is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Roast Duck, Black Pudding and Fondant Potatoes is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have roast duck, black pudding and fondant potatoes using 20 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Roast Duck, Black Pudding and Fondant Potatoes:
- Prepare for the duck
- Get 1 Duck Crown, approx. 900g
- Take 1 Baby Leek, sliced
- Take 2 slice of Lemon
- Take 8 Rashers of Smokey Bacon
- Get 1 a handful of Spinach leaves, stalks removed
- Make ready for the fondant potatoes
- Take 500 ml Chicken Stock
- Prepare 3 clove of Garlic, crushed with skins on
- Make ready 100 grams Butter
- Make ready 1 tsp Rosemary
- Prepare 1 tsp Thyme
- Take 2 medium to large Potatoes, halved, peeled and shaped
- Prepare for the gravey
- Get 2 tbsp Plain Flour
- Make ready 300 ml Chicken Stock
- Take 50 ml Red Wine
- Get other
- Get 4 slice of Black Pudding
- Get 1 veg for accompaniment
Instructions to make Roast Duck, Black Pudding and Fondant Potatoes:
- Pre-Heat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan.
- Season the Duck well and place on the spinach leaves to cover it.
- Place the lemon slices on top of the spinach and sprinkle over leek evenly.
- Place the bacon over the top, ensuring to cover completely. Place on a roasting tray and cook in the oven for approx. 1h - 1h10mins ( or to your liking)
- For the potatoes; heat the butter in a saucepan until foaming.
- Add the potatoes for 4-5mins or until browned. Flip over and repeat cooking till browned.
- Tip in the garlic and herbs followed by carefully pouring in the chicken stock. Pour in enough to cover 2/3rd's of the potatoes.
- Place a lid over, reduce heat to low and braise for about 25-30mins or until very soft.
- Check the cooking of the duck, 10mins before duck is removed from oven place the black pudding in to cook in the juices.
- Remove the duck to rest for 10-15mins.
- Remove black pudding, put aside and keep warm. Meanwhile, place the roasting pan on the hob and heat.
- Add the flour and cook out collecting juices.
- De-glaze using the red wine, then pour in the chicken stock, reducing to create the gravey.
- serve with chosen veg.
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