Recipe - Duck Miramonte

DUCK
4 Breasts, duck
2 ounce Butter
Watercress
Salt
Pepper

WINE SAUCE
6 ounce Butter
5 Shallots, chopped
1 teaspoon Peppercorns, cracked
5 ounce Cepes, dry,
2 cup Wine, Cabernet Sauvignon
1 One half cup Stock, duck, jellied ** OR
1 One half cup Demiglaze, duck **
2 md Tomatoes, seeded, chopped
(opt)

BONE MARROW
7 ounce Marrow, bone, chopped
Salt

SPINACH
1 bn Spinach
2 ounce Butter
3 Garlic, cloves
1 pn Nutmeg
Salt
Pepper

** See recipe for Duck Stock and / or Duck Demiglaze.

Duck:
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Preheat your oven to 450 F.

Bone the duck, reserving any unused parts for the stock. Trim
the breasts, salt and pepper well. Add the trimming to the other
bones and such reserved for stock.

In a saute pan, heat the butter over medium heat. Place the
breasts in the pan, skin side down, to melt the fat between the skin
and the meat. (About one or two minutes.) Increase the heat to high,
and brown lightly. Place the pan of breasts in the oven and cook for
8 minutes.

Wine Sauce:
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In a copper pan, melt 4 ounces of butter and add the shallots and
peppercorns. Cook briefly ( 1 to 2 minutes).

Add cepes and Cabernet Sauvignon. Reduce slightly.

Add duck stock or demiglace and tomatoes, if desired. Cook 20
30 minutes over medium heat.

Add butter if desired, whip, and reserve.

Bone Marrow:
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Fill a sauce pan with water, add a touch of salt, then bring the
salted water to a boil. Add marrow and cook for about 5 minutes.
Reserve.

Spinach:
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Blanch the spinach in hot, salted water, then press slightly to
dry.

In a saute pan, heat the butter until brown (beurre rosette
hazelnut in color). Add spinach, then nutmeg, salt and pepper. Cook
for about 20 seconds (spinach should have just started to wilt).
Drain and reserve.

To serve:
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Spoon the wine sauce into a pool on the serving plate. Add bone
marrow to the sauce. Trim any bone from the duck breasts and place
the breasts skin side down on a cutting surface and slice very thin.

Fan the duck slices out on the serving plate in the sauce, and
garnish with watercress and spinach in a side dish.

Source: Great Chefs of San Francisco, Avon Books, 1984
Chef: Udo Nechutnys, The Miramonte Restaurant, San Francisco, CA

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