Orange Sauce Recipe For Duck

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One of my late Dad's favourite meals was duck breast. This duck breast with orange sauce recipe is very easy to make and is really delicious.

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Duck breast with orange sauce

Orange Sauce for Duck Breast

For those of you wanting to buy some orange sauce for duck, stop here! It is much easier to make it yourself, and this is the recipe.

The orange sauce recipe for this meal is really tasty. You can also make it to accompany chicken if you wish.

Orange is a great accompaniment to duck and you will find them used together a lot.

Duck a l'orange or canard a l'orange (in French) is a well-known combination of duck and orange.

Although the dish is now thought to be French, the Italians, of course, claim it originated in Italy.

I will not go further into that, except to say that whoever came up with this combination was brilliant!

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The nice thing about this orange sauce duck gravy is that it requires very little preparation and is quickly on the table.

The duck breast also does not take long to cook so you can produce this meal in less than 15 minutes.

What to serve with duck breast?

Really any vegetable that takes your fancy. Here I served up with some crispy roast potatoes and baked carrots with garlic (these take a bit longer to cook, of course).

But you may also like to try with some mashed potatoes or even some honey roast parsnips.

Have a look on my sides page for some other ideas.

You may have to coordinate the timing of the cooking of the accompanying vegetables, depending on what you choose to serve with it.

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We are very lucky that we can pick up a few breasts of fresh duck here in our local Aldi for only about 3,50 Euros so we can produce this meal very cheaply.

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Duck Breast With Orange Sauce

This is really a mix between pan-fried duck breast and roast duck breast as the same skillet pan goes into the oven to finish off the meat.

I hope you enjoy trying this recipe. If you do, please let me know how you get on in the comments section below!

How to make roast duck in orange sauce

Ingredients

2 duck breast fillets
Salt and pepper
For the sauce
120ml chicken stock
2 tbsp honey
2 tbsp soy sauce
½ tbsp pureed ginger
½ tbsp tomato puree
2 tbsp red wine
Juice of 1 orange

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 200C.
Score the fat side of the duck breasts with a sharp knife in a criss-cross pattern, with say a 1cm gap between the scores. Season the breast with salt and pepper.
Put the breasts fat side down into a heated ovenproof skillet and cook on the hob until the fat side is crispy. This should take about 4-5 minutes.
While pan frying the duck prepare the sauce ingredients by putting the stock, honey, soy sauce, red wine, ginger, orange juice and tomato puree into a measuring jug and whisking together.
During this time a lot of fat will be released from the duck. Discard the excess fat (or retain for your next batch of roast potatoes) and then turn the breasts over and cook the other side for about 2 minutes.
Afterwards, again relieve of any excess fat, and place the pan in the oven for a further 2-3 minutes. Remove from the oven, relieve of any fat again, and set the duck breasts aside to rest.
Then pour the contents of the measuring jug into the same pan and bring to the boil. Simmer for a few minutes or until the sauce has thickened.
Slice the duck breast and serve up with the orange sauce poured over the slices.

Notes

Serve up with some roasted vegetables.

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 2 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 726 Total Fat: 28g Saturated Fat: 7g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 18g Cholesterol: 330mg Sodium: 1679mg Carbohydrates: 51g Fiber: 3g Sugar: 42g Protein: 64g

This nutrition information was automatically calculated by Nutritionix, but may not be 100% accurate.

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