Maple Pecan Crusted Duck Breast Recipes

MAPLE PECAN CRUSTED DUCK BREAST

Steps:

• Rinse and dry duck breasts, then stab full of holes with a skewer or a knife works fine too.
• Lay the duck in a large bowl, avoid overlapping if possible and pour enough maple syrup over breasts to cover.
• Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight.
• Pour 1/2-3/4 of the pecans in a zip bag and smash well with a rolling pin. You may wish to pulse in a food processor instead.
• Remove duck from frige and set at room temperature for 10 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• One breast at a time baste with remaining syrup and a basting brush, then roll in pecan crumbs.
• Place in a buttered baking dish.
• Bake for 40-45 minutes. You want the duck to be a little rare or it will be tough.

ROASTED SKINLESS DUCK BREAST

Steps:

• Clean & peel the outer skin from your garlic bulbs.
• Cut the top quarter off your heads of garlic.
• Sprinkle tops of garlic heads with the Olive oil.
• Preheat oven to375.
• Place garlic in the oven uncovered for 15 minutes.
• Lower oven temp to 350.
• Place duck breast & garlic heads in an oven proof dish and cover with foil.
• Bake for apprx 30 minutes depending on the size of the breasts.
• Serve 1 breast per person with a wedge of lemon along side.

ASIAN ROASTED DUCK BREAST

Steps:

• Place everything except duck, duh, in a blender/processor/immersion.
• Score duck breasts with a knife, but not deep enough that you cut the meat.
• Place breasts in a zip lock and pour marinade inches Allow to sit in the fridge for a day.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Drain and reserve marinade. Place breasts in a small roaster, skin side up, and roast for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove and tent with foil.
• While they are roasting, take reserved marinade and heat on medium to reduce by half. You can also add some cornstarch (about 1 tsp) to thicken it up.

MAPLE-PECAN-CRUSTED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place a wire rack onto a baking sheet and lightly coat with cooking spray.
• Mix maple syrup, mayonnaise, and salt together in a bowl.
• Mix panko and pecans together in a separate bowl. Dip chicken into the syrup mixture, followed by the panko mixture. Place onto the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the centers reads at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C), 15 to 20 minutes.

JAPANESE-STYLE MARINATED DUCK BREAST

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.