Recipe - Honey Roasted Duck On Couscous With Cashew Nuts

3 3.5 pound barbary ducks
1 tablespoon Orange flower honey; (clear)
3 Sage leaves
Salt and freshly ground
black pepper
6 ounce Couscous
2 Good pinches saffron stamens
1 Nodule fresh ginger root
2 Green chillies
2 ounce Cashew nuts
6 Spring onions
One half teaspoon Salt
1 Shallot
1 Clove garlic
2 tablespoon Extra virgin oil
1 tablespoon Sesame oil
1 tablespoon Caraway leaf or parsley
1 tablespoon Soy sauce

Preheat the oven to 220C/gas 7.

Cut the ducks into portions. Take off the breasts along the breastbone,
running knife along carcass for a clean finish. Cut off the legs at the hip
joint and reserve for confit. Render fat for confit. Crush bones and make
in to stock or pop them in the freezer and make it at a more convenient
time.

Make an incision in each breast near the fillet and insert half a sage
leaf. Season the breasts. Heat a cast iron pan or skillet until hot. Sear
the fat sides of the breasts until the fat starts to crisp.

Remove and then with a sharp, fine knife, make vertical slashes close
together through the skin of each breast. This is easier to do neatly when
the skin is crisp. Return breasts, skin side down, to skillet and cook to
release the fat and crisp skin. It will now be golden.

Drain well and then smear a little honey over the surfaces of the skin. Sit
breasts in a roasting tin skin sides up. Roast in a hot oven for 78
minutes, depending on how thick the breasts are. Rest in a warming oven for
a further 15 minutes to relax the flesh and evenly spread the cooking heat.
The breasts will now be lightly pink and moist.

To make the couscous, heat Three fourths pint water and add the salt and saffron
stamens until boiling. Pour the couscous in to a bowl. Add the boiling
water and stir gently. Leave for the grains to swell and become fluffy
having taken up the colour and flavour of the saffron, about 10 minutes.

Finely chop the onion and garlic. Roast the cashew nuts in the oven for 23
minutes until golden. Peel and finely shred the ginger. Cut off the tops,
membranes and seeds from the chillies and chop finely. Peel and thinly
slice the spring onions, also using a little of the green stems.

Fork up the swollen couscous In a wide based pan, heat olive oil and fry
onion, garlic, chilli and ginger until softened. Add spring onion and
cashew nuts and then quickly add the couscous. Sprinkle on the sesame oil,
stirring with a fork. Season. Make very hot. Stir in a little freshly
chopped caraway, or parsley leaf and 1tbsp of soy sauce.

Serve on plates with the duck breasts cut or sliced up horizontally and laid on top
to allow the juices to drip through.

Converted by MC_Buster.

Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.