duck leg confit with
cactus figs sauce
The sauce. Keep one cactus fig. Peel the
others and roughly equal the weight of
oranges. Peel two carrots, shallots and a few
cloves of garlic. Put everything in the blender
and blend to a purée. Bring chicken stock to
the boil with sprigs of thyme and rosemary and
two bay leaves. Add the fruit purée and leave
to cook, covered, for about 20 minutes.
Sieve the sauce. Reduce and season with
pepper, salt and a good dash of Mandarine
Napoleon. Thicken the sauce if required.
The duck legs in confit. Fry them in a pan
with some duck fat until the skin becomes
crispy.
Other preparations. Cut the remaining cactus
fruit with the bread machine or mandolin into
centimetre-thin slices. Do the same with an
orange. Dust the slices with olive oil and grill
them in a grill pan.
Wash the figs, cut them in half crosswise.
Spray with balsamic vinegar. Put them in an
oven dish under a hot grill for 5 minutes. Toast
shredded almonds in a dry pan.
bay leaf
pepper and salt
Mandarine Napoleon
duck legs
duck fat
olive oil
figs
aged balsamic
vinegar
cactus figs
oranges
carrots
shallots
garlic
chicken stock
thyme
rosemary
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