Spiced Duck with Madeira and Cherry Sauce

This Spiced Duck with Madeira and Cherry Sauce recipe combines salt aged duck breasts with cinnamon, cumin, runny honey, madeira, cherries and veal jus for a taste sensation! Serve with potatoes, carrots and turnips.

Ingredients

Duck
  • 2 large salt aged duck breasts, scored
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tbs runny honey
Sauce
  • 100ml madeira
  • 300ml veal jus
  • 100g cherries, stoned or mulberries
Vegetables
  • 4 large potatoes, cut into rounds and blanched for 10 mins
  • 100g baby turnips, blanched for 5 mins
  • 100g baby carrots, blanched for 5 mins
  • 50g butter
  • Salt and pepper

Method

Pre heat the oven to 200C.

Dry fry the duck in a pan, skin side down over a medium heat for 4 minutes. Flip over, sprinkle over the spices and drizzle over the honey.

Place the potatoes in the same pan and pop in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes then rest.

To the make the sauce: heat a saucepan, then add the madeira and veal jus. Bring to the boil and reduce by half. Add a knob of butter and the cherries or mulberries (or a mixture of the two) and take off the heat.

To cook the veg: melt the butter in the water, add the veg and cookfor 5 minutes.

To serve: slice the duck, pop on a plate with the potatoes and veg then drizzle over the cherry/mulberry sauce. Sprinkle with fennel fronds.

Ingredients

Duck
  • 2 large salt aged duck breasts, scored
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tbs runny honey
Sauce
  • 100ml madeira
  • 300ml veal jus
  • 100g cherries, stoned or mulberries
Vegetables
  • 4 large potatoes, cut into rounds and blanched for 10 mins
  • 100g baby turnips, blanched for 5 mins
  • 100g baby carrots, blanched for 5 mins
  • 50g butter
  • Salt and pepper

Method

Pre heat the oven to 200C.

Dry fry the duck in a pan, skin side down over a medium heat for 4 minutes. Flip over, sprinkle over the spices and drizzle over the honey.

Place the potatoes in the same pan and pop in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes then rest.

To the make the sauce: heat a saucepan, then add the madeira and veal jus. Bring to the boil and reduce by half. Add a knob of butter and the cherries or mulberries (or a mixture of the two) and take off the heat.

To cook the veg: melt the butter in the water, add the veg and cookfor 5 minutes.

To serve: slice the duck, pop on a plate with the potatoes and veg then drizzle over the cherry/mulberry sauce. Sprinkle with fennel fronds.