Duck breast with orange-cinnamon sauce, red cabbage and dumplings

AUTHOR
Kristopher Marks
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 stale bread roll
  • 1 TABLESPOON clarified butter
  • 1 package (750 g) Dumpling dough "half & half" (refrigerated shelf)
  • 7-10 Tbsp salt, pepper, sugar
  • 0?$? Duck breast fillets (approx. 350 g each)
  • 120 ml Orange juice
  • 1 TABLESPOON White wine vinegar
  • 1 Cinnamon stick
  • 1-2 TEASPOONS Cornstarch
  • 1 Onion
  • 1 glass (720 ml) Red cabbage
  • 2 Cloves
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Cranberries (glass)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Aluminium foil

Directions

  1. 1

    For the dumplings, cut rolls into 16 cubes. Heat the lard in a pan. Roast the bread in it until golden brown. Form 16 dumplings from the dumpling dough, putting 1 bread roll cube into each dumpling. Put the dumplings into boiling salt water and let them simmer for about 15 minutes until they float on the surface.

  2. 2

    Lift it out, let it drip off.

  3. 3

    Preheat the oven for the duck breast (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Prepare the meat, brown. Season with salt and pepper. Place the fillets in an ovenproof dish. Season with salt and pepper.

  4. 4

    Cook in a hot oven for about 10 minutes.

  5. 5

    When the meat is in the oven, for the sauce, take the duck fat - up to about 1 tablespoon - out of the pan, pass it through a fine sieve and set aside. Add 1 tbsp. sugar to the pan and caramelise.

  6. 6

    Deglaze with orange juice, vinegar and 1⁄8 l water. Add cinnamon. Simmer for about 3 minutes. Remove cinnamon. Stir starch and 2 tbsp. water until smooth. Stir into the boiling sauce and simmer for about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper, keep warm.

  7. 7

    For the red cabbage peel and chop the onion. Heat 1 tablespoon of duck fat. Sauté the onion in it. Add red cabbage and cloves. Cover and bring to the boil. Stir in cranberries. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

  8. 8

    Take the meat out of the oven and let it rest in aluminium foil for about 5 minutes. Heat 1-2 tablespoons of duck fat in a pan. Fry the dumplings lightly all around. Cut the duck breast fillets into slices.

  9. 9

    Serve with dumplings, red cabbage and sauce.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
760 kcal
CARBS
76 g
FATS
30 g
PROTEINS
42 g