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Apple Glazed Duck Breast with Apple Vegetable Stew Wine and Drinks
Food category:Main Course (all recipes within this category)
Main ingredient:Duck (all recipes with this ingredient)
Chef:Andreas Viestad (all recipies from this chef)
Episode:Where Everything Smells of Apples (about this episode)
Ingredients for serving 4 persons

As we investigated in our program from Hardanger, apples are incredibly versatile. They can, with great success, be used in savoury dishes -- and in this elegant dish, this idea is taken to it extreme -- without it ever becoming forced. The duck breast is marinated in apple cider, served with apple glace and served with a wonderful apple and celeriac stew.

You can make your own apple glaze by reducing 1 cup apple juice until only 1/4 is left.

Marinade 
1 cup (2 1/2 dl) sweet apple cider
1 cup (2 1/2 dl) unsweetened apple juice
1 sprig of fresh thyme
2 bay leaves
1 cinnamon stick.

Duck
4 duck breasts
salt

Stew
4 celeriac stalks, chopped
1 pound (450 grams) celeriac, peeled and cut into sticks or 1 inch dice
2 big shallots (or 5 small shallots), chopped
1 tablespoons butter
2-3 apples, peeled, de-cored and chopped
2 tablespoons mustard

2 tablespoons apple glaze 

This is how you do it

Start by making the marinade. Mix all the ingredients. Cover the duck breast with the marinade in a bowl and refrigerate for 24 hours. Heat the mixture to 160 degrees (73 C) and let it cool off. 

Add the vegetables, apples, mustard and butter to a pan and over medium heat.
Turn up the heat and let it cook until the apples are staring to get soft, but not soft all the way through. It will take about 7-8 minutes.

After the heating in the marinade, the duck breasts are already starting to warm inside. Season them with salt and sear them off in a pan over high heat -- skin side down (you will not need any butter) for 6-7 minutes, until the internal temperature is 145 degrees. Turn off the heat when the breasts have got a brown, crisp surface and let them rest in the pan for a few minutes. Slice the breasts into very thin slices and add the apple glace. Sprinkle with salt.

 

The duck breast has a lot of flavour. The apple flavour should be matched by something crisp and fresh. Also, beer is a workable option for economy class. Note that if you make this as a starter, try to match it with a white manzanilla (a dry sherry wine from Spain). The manzanilla does often have an apple like bouquet (“manzana”  means “apple” in Spanish).

Economy class: Beer.
Mid range: Sparkling wine from Alsace, France.
Gourmet: Dry Riesling, Germany.

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