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Pan Fried Duck Breast with Spicy Tamarind Sauce
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- Duck breasts
- 4 free range duck breast fillets
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon five-spice powder
- Tamarind sauce
- 140g tamarind pods (100g shelled weight)
- 200ml warm water
- 1 tablespoon caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- ¼-½ teaspoon chilli powder
- 30g sultanas
Method
- To make the sauce, shell the tamarind pods. Place the pods in a bowl and add the water. Gently rub the pulp, separating each stone. Leave to soak for 10 minutes then rub again. The stones will slip out of the flesh.
- Set a sieve over a pan and push the juice and pulp through. Discard the fibres and stones. Mix in the sugar, salt, spices and sultanas and simmer gently for 8 minutes. Remove from the heat.
- Trim the duck breasts of sinews and score the fat into diamonds. Mix the salt and five-spice powder and rub over the duck.
- Place the duck breasts, fat-side down, in a frying pan over a low heat. As soon as the fat begins to melt, increase the heat to medium and fry for about 5 minutes. Flip them over and fry until cooked. The duck will be pink inside after 10-12 minutes. If you want it cooked more, put it in the oven with the potato pancakes for a couple of minutes. Reheat the sauce. Serve the duck with the pancakes and the sauce.
- If you can't find tamarind pods (available in Waitrose) use 100g tamarind pulp, sold in Asian shops. Sweet potato pancakes are integral to this dish.
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This recipe was first published in Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT 2000.
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